Page 1: God's Timetable Part 2

Page 1: God’s Timetable Part 2

By Nicholas Jones

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ISBN: 9781370542024

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God’s timetable begins on day 8

Page 2 of your Bible has more exciting new revelations.

Discover an intimate God…

Just what we would expect for the father of Jesus.

Table of Contents

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11. Warning, warning, warning

12. Introducing day-8 man

13. The image, the likeness, the dilemma

14. Lessons from Adam and Cain

15. Sons of God and daughters of men

16. About servants

17. The challenges

18. The Day-8 story

19. Reviewing day-8 man

20. About the Nephilim

21. Life for life

22. Noah’s outburst

Appendices:

B1. No plants

B2. Was day-6 man hairy?

B3. Absence of good

Follow-up:

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In the Preface and Foreword in Part 1, I gave a broad introduction to all parts and I’m just going to assume you have read that. In Part 1 we saw that God’s rest day, day 7, pointed to the millennium reign of Jesus. The subsequent account of Adam in the Garden then pointed to the new heaven and earth that would manifest after the millennium reign and a final battle. Everything else in Part 1 followed the creation sequence exactly, except that this apparent account of Adam in the Garden followed day 7, rather than being more detail of day 6 events. Well, Part 2 is all about that. Adam in the garden really was an event that followed day 7, exactly as written.

When I described the prophetic mapping of the various days to the subsequent millennia, it was all new. It was something you had never seen before. All you had to do was be amazed as it unfolded. But something different is about to happen. Virtually everybody has assumed that Adam in the Garden is more detail of the day 6 events. They have certainly never seen the flip side properly presented. Now, I am changing their understanding of scripture. I’m talking about precious saints who have defended the Bible against all manner of perversions; saints who have been my teachers and have my greatest respect. What I offer, I will demonstrate and vindicate from scripture. I will present beautiful new insights to show a loving God lavishing time on Adam and when things go bad we will see that it was because of what we did. Though the benefits of this offering are great, it may not break through the existing paradigm. And do you know something? That’s OK with God and OK with me. If you are locked onto Jesus and excited by the thought of His imminent return, you don’t have to change.

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11. Warning, warning, warning

The preceding chapters in Part 1, about God’s timetable, are a prophetic interpretation of Genesis 1. It stands independent of the plain reading and how you understand it. However, in the following chapters of Part 2, I will be presenting different ways to understand the historical events in Genesis. So keep your wits about you. This is an area that has been attacked ferociously. But I am not going to attack it. Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah and the flood are all as you read them. Further, in my opinion the image of God and the role of Jesus are enhanced.

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So why the big warning?

The big warning is because it will look like I am changing the plain reading. But actually I will only be introducing a different paradigm or background against which you can set the plain reading. But I know how this is often received by precious saints who have already created their own background against which to set the story. I also know that many attempts to pervert, undermine or attack the Bible have occurred in the same areas I will examine. So it is to be expected that my offering will be challenged.

What is plain?

Now before you take the high ground and claim that I am perverting the plain reading, please consider these points:

• In Genesis 1:31, God said that His creation was very good. It is common to reinterpret this as meaning perfect and being perfect, Adam was immortal. But in Genesis 3:22, God said that Adam had to eat from the tree of life to live forever. So in a plain reading Adam was not created immortal.

• In Genesis 1:29-30, God allocates seed and fruit to man and green plants to the animals. This is commonly understood by adding only, that is, as if God only gave man fruit and seed to eat and only gave animals plants, thereby implying a vegetarian diet. But that has its own problems.

• Genesis 3 is an amazing chapter in which we move from God’s glorious creation to man’s fallen state. It starts with a clever articulate animal that is called The snake before it is transformed into a snake. The snake speaks with the knowledge and intent that only Satan had. So everyone knows that the snake is Satan, and they routinely understand the plain reading that way. In fact you have to – we have to know that Satan got his authority because man obeyed him rather than God. The clever, articulate animal in the plain reading becomes irrelevant when we use this revelation to read Genesis 3.

• In Genesis 4, Cain kills Abel and is sent away by God, who protects Cain from other men. Where did these other men come from? In a plain reading, Seth is the next child born after Cain and Abel, and when you look at Genesis 5:3-5 it suggests that all the other children of Adam were born after this. Well, in order to explain the other men that Cain was afraid of, we accept that some of the other children born to Adam could have been born before Seth. So logic is allowed to shape the plain reading.

• Genesis 6 talks about the sons of God and the daughters of men. Adam is clearly described as the son of God, so why do many scholars uphold that the sons of God were demons? This is clearly contrary to the declaration in Hebrews 1:5 that God never called an angel His son.

So I want to let you know that the plain reading has had a lot of clarification added over the years. Some of it is fine. Some of it I hate. All of it was done with some presumed scriptural justification. All or most was done in an attempt to defend the Bible against attacks. Often this critical analysis of scripture is really exciting. Often you see things in the original Hebrew that has been missed in translation. God’s Word has amazing depths that we are still discovering.

What I claim

The preceding section is just to let you know that what you presume is the plain reading, is already coloured. I am going to make some observations and draw different deductions. I want to let you know that I uphold the plain reading in the above-mentioned places, and in other places where deviations are commonly accepted. Actually, I would be so bold as to claim that the understandings I offer makes the Bible read more consistently under a plain reading. But perhaps most importantly, I claim that the following sections of this book will present an image of God during the early Genesis chapters that is more consistent with God, the Father of Jesus, as revealed in the rest of the Bible.

So, are you ready? I’ve just made a massive claim.

Let’s see if I can back it up.

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12. Introducing day-8 man

After resting on day 7, God created Adam, exactly as written. The stand-out event of all eternity was not squeezed into Friday afternoon. Page 2 of your Bible has as many surprises as page 1.

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God’s introduction of man

The creation story really ends in Genesis 2:1-3, where the heavens and earth were completed and God rests. So what is God saying in Genesis 2:4-5:

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth; and there was no man to cultivate the ground. (NASB)

This is usually assumed to be an introduction to a more detailed account of the creation of man on day 6 in Genesis 1:26. I call this the Classic view of Genesis 2. But these verses can be taken another way, namely, that this is describing something God did after He rested on day 7, exactly as written. This new account is about the creation of Adam and his subsequent lineage that carries on for the rest of the Bible. I call this the Day-8 view since it sees Adam created after God rested on day 7, seemingly on day 8.

The first thing you have to notice is that the Day-8 view is a valid assumption. Frankly, it is exactly how Genesis reads. So why has everyone opted for the Classic view. My guess is that they or we, because it’s what I originally did, saw that phrase and there was no man to cultivate the ground and assumed since man was created on day-6 that this is referring back to when God created man on day 6. This is logical but it does lead to problems, for example:

• It means that day 6 was extraordinarily busy for Adam because he had to name all the animals before God created Eve on the same day.

• Who were the men that Cain was afraid of when he was sent away after killing Abel in Genesis 4?

• Who were the sons of God and daughters of men in Genesis 6?

I expand on these issues in later chapters. Now let’s consider the Day-8 view. The immediate problem with the Day-8 view is that you have a man created on day 8, namely Adam, whom I shall refer to as day-8 man and another man created on day 6, whom I shall refer to as day-6 man. But let’s look at these points straight away:

• Suddenly there is no rush for Adam to name all the animals before Eve is created.

• Cain was simply afraid of the day-6 men.

• The sons of God are Adam’s descendants while the daughters of men are descendants of day-6 man.

But most of all, take note that in Genesis 1:26-27 God said that He was going to make man in Our image and after Our likeness, but then in verse 27 He only created man in His image – likeness is not mentioned. But in Genesis 5:1, God refers to the descendants of Adam as being made in the likeness of God – image is not mentioned. So on day-6 God did not create man in His likeness, and that is what we now see happening in Genesis 2.

The animals created on day 6 were created from the ground (Genesis 2:19) and so too would day-6 man have been created. The man, Adam, was also formed from the ground (Genesis 2:7), but Adam was given life by the breath of God. The breath of life can also be read