Summation #5 (The Genesis Series, Part 50)

Nehemiah 8:10:

for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

The joy of the children of God is not their own joy; rather, it is God’s joy and it is imparted unto them by Him.  Our joy is of the Lord.  The word of means out from. The Oxford Dictionary defines joy: A vivid emotion of pleasure arising from a sense of well-being or satisfaction; the feeling or state of being highly pleased or delighted; exultation of spirit; gladness, delight. 

God derives some of His joy from His children.  Psalm 37:23:

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

When we walk in the ways God has ordered for us, He delights.  Hebrews 11:6:

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

When we walk in faith, we please God. 

Both delight and please are part of the definition of joy.  Can you imagine: We can add to God’s joy.

Dear visitor, have you yet to be BORN AGAIN as Jesus states in John 3:3?

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

In just moments, I will invite you to follow me in a simple prompt, and if you follow from your heart, you will surely add to God’s joy.  You will be born a most literal second time, this time as a son or daughter of God.  God will rejoice over you. Follow the coming prompt, and TODAY, all your sin and shame will be washed away by Christ’s cleansing blood.  You will be BORN AGAIN! TODAY, all of Satan’s bondages in your life will be broken—EVERY SINGLE ONE! TODAY, you will become a new creature.  II Corinthians 5:17:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

This is entirely true.  TODAY, your eternal soul is in your very own hands.  Here is the prompt I promised:  Click onto Further with Jesus for childlike instructions and immediate entry into the Kingdom of God.  NOW FOR TODAY’S SUBJECT.

GOD SAID, Genesis 3:14-15:

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

GOD SAID, Genesis 5:5:

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

GOD SAID, Genesis 6:4:

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

MAN SAID: I take offense at that! What do you mean I’m blind?!  I’m the smartest person in the room!  My first cousin was a mushroom, my second cousin a banana, and my father a monkey!  See what I mean?

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You have arrived at the GodSaidManSaid “Genesis Series;” this is Part 50.  Each of these features begins with the following information from the first feature:

According to a 2006 issue of Discover magazine concerning the deceased Carl Sagan: “Sagan approaches religion like any phenomenon.  He isn’t on a quest for life’s meaning, for a comforting philosophy, or even a guide to how we should treat the neighbors.  Sagan seeks truth of a demonstrable kind.  As a puckish example, he wonders why the book of Genesis didn’t include God-inspired truths…” [End of quote]

The BORN AGAIN scratch their heads in bewilderment.  Did these folks actually read the book of Genesis? I suppose they did, but God’s revelation is only revealed to the humbled hearts of the children of faith.  This GodSaidManSaid series will be called “The Genesis Series.”  It is our intention to travel through the entire book of Genesis and publish one major God-inspired truth after another.  We will be pulling from previous GodSaidManSaid features and adding the latest information as we go.

The challenge was: If God did, in fact, author the Bible, why didn’t He include God-inspired truths in Genesis, the Bible’s very first book? This is the fifth in a bullet-point, multi-part summation of the Genesis Series, which will be formatted in an instant-replay fashion. If you haven’t, take some time to visit the features reviewed.  You will not be wasting time.  This information is staggering. 

According to the Bible, its text was authored by God—the God who knows the end from the beginning—and it was penned by His holy men. GodSaidManSaid maintains that those claims are true and righteous altogether. 

The Genesis Series took 45 weeks to catalogue; the summation of the series will take nine weeks. This is summation number five, which will review features 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25.   

💣 Feature #21: Snakes + God-Inspired Truths

Genesis 3:13-15:

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

This feature addresses the curse that befell the serpent because of the part it played in the fall of man.  Satan chose to possess the serpent to deceive Grandmother Eve.  Not only has God cursed the serpent anatomically, but this Satanic brand has become ubiquitous, infiltrating every stratum of society.  Satan and the serpent are central players to all that befalls the sons of Adam.  We see Satan and his minions from nearly the beginning in Genesis Chapter Three to the final judgement in Revelation Chapter 20—and that’s the end of him. 

From the October 11, 1997 edition of The International Jerusalem Post is the following excerpt:

A midrash about Adam and Eve now has scientific support: Hebrew University researchers have found evidence that prehistoric snakes had tiny legs.

According to Jewish tradition, the snake that tempted Eve to disobey God was punished by being forced to crawl on its belly forever.

A team from the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, headed by Professor Eitan Tchernov, found that the fossils had two small, but anatomically complete, hind legs.  Tchernov will present his findings this month at the international conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Chicago. 

Could Genesis be accurate?  The latest discovery concerning the snake and its legs is making the news once again.  The headline in the National Geographic, July 23, 2015, release reads, “Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science.”  A few paragraphs follow.  In this report, David Martill of the University of Portsmouth is walking through Bürgermeister Müller Museum in Germany:

He saw a little specimen with a long, sinuous body, packed with ribs and 15 centimeters from nose to tail.  It looked like a snake.  But it was stuck in an unusual rock, with the distinctive characteristics of the Brazilian Crato Formation, a fossil site that dates to the early Cretaceous period.  Snake fossils had been found in that period but never that location, and in South America, but never that early.  The combination of place and time was unusual.

“And then, if my jaw hadn’t already dropped enough, it dropped right to the floor,” says Martill.  The little creature had a pair of hind legs. “I thought: bloody hell!  And I looked closer and the little label said: Unknown fossil.  Understatement!” [End of quotes]

Fox News headline, July 24, 2015, “Unexpected Step: Snake ancestor had four feet.”  A paragraph follows:

The oldest snake fossil on record looks almost like a modern snake, except for one glaring difference: It has four feet, each with five digits, a new study finds. 

Finally, from Inquisitr.com:

Fully developed snake feet have been found on the oldest snake fossil, a discovery which is said to have been “unexpected” and “stunning” to science.  But some creationists are already taking those snake legs and running with them, saying the discovery proves the Bible’s claim about snakes in the Garden of Eden. 

God’s curse upon the serpent was to eat and lick dirt.  The article from the September 1988 issue of Creation magazine headlined with “Snakes Do Eat Dust!” Carl Wieland writes:

In Genesis 3:14 we read, “And the Lord God said unto the serpent… ‘upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:’” Since snakes do not really appear to eat dust, this has been taken as an example of either obvious metaphor (which seems reasonable) or an example of the Bible’s propensity to error, depending upon one’s bias. 

In Micah 7:17 we read, “They shall lick the dust like a serpent.”

Once again, we have the situation where, as more information has come to light, the Bible has been shown to not only be accurate, but accurate in minute detail.  Snakes do deliberately and purposely eat and lick dust. 

There is an organ in the roof of a snake’s mouth called the “Jacobson organ.”  This helps the snake to smell in addition to its nose.  Its darting, forked tongue samples bits of dust by picking them up on the points of the fork, which it then presents to its matching pair of sensory organs inside its mouth.  Once it has “smelt” them in this way, the tongue must be cleaned so the process can be repeated immediately. 

Therefore, serpents really do lick dust and eat it.  [End of quote]

💣 Feature #22: Jubilee!

Genesis 4:19-22:

19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

21 And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

Life’s pattern is established in Genesis, God’s first book of the Bible.  Adam and Eve were not knuckle-dragging, ignorant, grunting cave dwellers.  The first humans were genius upon genius and possessed very sophisticated skills. When archaeology digs and ancient historians report, man is found to be very sophisticated from the start—a sophistication that soundly contradicts the evolutionary paradigm proposed by today’s academics.  You’ll find the following in Dr. Donald Chittick’s book, The Puzzle of Ancient Man:

In fact, the cultural remains of ancient man are so at odds with the evolutionary picture for man’s origin that a special term has been coined to define these artifacts.  The term is OOPArts, an acronym for Out Of Place Artifacts.  [The following paragraph is from R. Noorbergen’s book, Secrets of Lost Races:]

For the past thirty years, there has been a steadily increasing number of historical and archaeological discoveries made at various sites around the world, which, because of their mysterious and highly controversial nature, have been classified as “out-of-place” artifacts—thus the name OOPArts.  The reason for this designation is that they are found in geological strata where they shouldn’t be, and their sudden appearance in these layers of ancient dirt has baffled the minds of many a trained scientific observer. [End of quote]

Adam spoke from his inception.  He didn’t have to learn to speak.  He was preprogrammed to speak.  His conversation was sophisticated and grammatically correct.  He named all of God’s creature as well as his wife.  He was preprogrammed to speak and there is no reason to believe that he wasn’t also preprogrammed to write, compute mathematical equations, and more. 

The August 2014 issue of Scientific American published a six-page feature titled, “Accidental Genius.”  In the article, research addressed the concept of acquired savantism.  Through an accidental blow to the head or a traumatic experience of some kind, people have been known to emerge from that experience with unearthly, and unlearned, savant-like skills in music, math, or other subjects and still retain normalcy.  Following are a few excerpts from that feature:

Discovery of this unusual phenomenon raises the possibility that dormant potential in some artistic or intellectual realm—an “inner savant”—resides in each of us.  If so, perhaps a way can be found to tap these buried abilities in the absence of disease or injury. 

One plausible explanation for the hidden talents that emerge in savant syndrome—whether early in life or induced by injury—is that these reservoirs of skill and knowledge must be inherited in some way.  We do not start life with a blank slate that subsequently gets inscribed through education and other life experiences.  The brain may come loaded with a set of innate predispositions for processing what it sees or for understanding the “rules” of music, art, or mathematics.  Savants can tap into that inherited knowledge far better than the average person can.  [End of quotes]

Life’s patterns are established in Genesis.  We find pre-flood man mastering agriculture, animal husbandry, city building, tent making, music-making, metallurgy, and more.  But some cataclysmic event took place (Noah’s flood) that washed away many of their achievements.  Again from The Puzzle of Ancient Man:

In a fascinating book discussing the accomplishments of ancient civilizations, one author (Noorbergen) succinctly summarizes the situation as follows:

A closer look at the strange artifacts now suggests that the OOPArts originated in a man-made civilization—one that antedated known history—one that attained an elevated degree of development, but was destroyed to such an extent by a devastating catastrophe in the distant past that only a few remnants of its science and technology survived among the inferior cultures that succeeded it in history. [End of quote]

Genesis 4:21 tells us the father figure of music was Jubal:

And his brother''s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

His name, Jubal, means “horn” or “ram’s horn,” which was blown to announce the Jewish jubilee.  The Oxford English Dictionary says this of “jubilee:” orig., it seems, “ram,” hence “ram’s horn” used as a trumpet, with which the jubilee year was proclaimed.  Jubilee is obviously rooted in the name of the father of the harp and organ, Jubal. 

Regarding Genesis 4, Dr. Chittick writes:

From this passage, we observe that in just seven generations from Adam, early man had made significant developments.  Antediluvians were not struggling and barely surviving primitive hunters living in caves as the naturalism (evolutionist) picture would have us believe.  Instead they carried on organized agriculture including animal husbandry. 

Continuing with the list of antediluvian accomplishments we find that “Jubal was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” Music was clearly a part of the culture as indicated by mention of both stringed and wind instruments.  Archaeologists have uncovered musical instruments from very ancient times, although we cannot be certain about exact dates for them.  Some of these ancient instruments are not crude or “primitive” but are highly crafted.  Even with our modern technology, we do not know how these ancient instruments might be improved to make better music.  Evidence indicates that music itself is very ancient.  

The doctor continues concerning Tubal-Cain:

Tubal-Cain was an “instructor of every artificer of brass and iron.”  Here “brass” comes from the Hebrew word meaning base or common metals such as copper, as opposed to the more valuable noble metals such as silver or gold.  The term “brass” could also include alloys of base metals. [End of quote]

Highly esteemed ancient historian Flavius Josephus writes in The Antiquities of the Jews:

Now Jared was the son of Enoch; whose son was Malaleel; whose son was Mathusela; whose son was Lamech; who had seventy-seven children by two wives, Silla and Ada.  Of those children by Ada, one was Jabal; he erected tents, and loved the life of a shepherd.  But Jubal, who was born of the same mother with him, exercised himself in music; and invented the psaltery and the harp.  But Tubal, one of his children by the other wife, exceeded all men in strength, and was very expert and famous in martial performances.  He procured what tended to the pleasures of the body by that method; and first of all invented the art of making brass. [End of quotes]

All the patterns of life are established in Genesis, God’s first book of the Bible.  It’s words are the laws of life that permeate all with which we have to do, from creation to occupation.  For those looking for God-inspired truths, we recommend the Genesis Series.

💣 Feature 23: Josephus Says 1,000 Years 

Genesis 5:5:

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

During the 1,656 years prior to the flood of Noah, things were dramatically different. One of the major reasons for this difference is found in Genesis 1:6-7:

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Firmament is heaven or space. There are three heavens. The space around us and the sky make up the first heaven. Outer space, with the planets, etc., is the second heaven. The third heaven is where God dwells (II Corinthians 12:2-5). God separated the water into two bodies by firmament. One body was under the firmament, covering the earth. The other body of water was above the firmament (sky). Thus, earth had two bodies of water separated by space or firmament. It is important to note that prior to the flood of Noah there is no record of rain.

Genesis 2:5-6:

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

God watered the earth with a mist. The first record of rain is in the days of Noah when God opened the windows of heaven. Note that the token of the covenant God gave to Noah, which assured Noah that He would not destroy the whole earth again by a flood, was a rainbow. A rainbow appears to be something Noah had never seen before. The ancient civilizations of Babylon, Egypt, Greece, India, Hawaii, Indonesia, Europe, Asia, and Australia testify of a water canopy above the firmament.

The water canopy was rained down upon the earth. According to scientists, a water canopy of that magnitude would have had very powerful benefits. One benefit would have been a greenhouse effect, making the whole world tropical. For example, if you had a greenhouse, you could have tropical temperatures inside and frigid temperatures outside. So then the water canopy God describes in Genesis would have provided a balmy tropical temperature as one of its benefits, and it would have encompassed the globe. Every day would have featured a beautiful, rainless, cloudless, postcard sky. However, immediately after God opened the windows of heaven in the days of Noah and rained down that water canopy, the greenhouse effect ended and the north and south poles went into an immediate, deep freeze. According to an AP science writer, and I quote, “The frigid Arctic regions were as balmy as present-day Florida some 90 million years ago according to researchers who found fossils in northern Canada of a crocodile-like animal.”

The AP science writer was only half right. Balmy temperatures, yes. Ninety million years ago, no.  It is established that the frigid areas of the earth were once tropical. 

Another major benefit of this global water canopy was the filtering of ultraviolet killer rays from the sun as well as other sun-related detriments. Ultraviolet radiation is a contributing factor for at least 60 major diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, strokes, Alzheimer’s, Down syndrome, mental loss and arteriosclerosis, just to name a few.

A scientist recently offered his solution to the scientific community for the deadly effects astronauts experience from prolonged bombardment by UV rays. His solution: five feet of water all around their habitation.

The average pre-Noah lifespan was 912 years, or 13 times longer than we live today. Imagine living in a perfect tropical atmosphere: perfect air, perfect water, perfect diet, without harmful effects from the sun. The obvious result would be a long, long, healthy life — 13 times longer. The famed historian Flavius Josephus, who wrote just after Christ’s life here on the earth, recorded the life span of the ancients reaching up to 1,000 years. He refers directly to ancient historians such as Manetho, Berosus, Mockus, Hestiaeus, Hieronymus, Hesiod, Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Acusilaus, Ephorus, and Nicolaus, who attest to these phenomenal life spans.

The pre-Noah water canopy is central to the explanation of what has perplexed many about the idea of a young, 6,000-year-old earth and what happened to the dinosaurs.

The dinosaur is a reptile and it does something that we can’t do: it never stops growing. In A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, which is part of the Peterson Field Guide Series, sponsored by the National Audubon Society and National Wildlife Federation, I found the following statement:

Size: Reptiles and amphibians may continue to grow as long as they live, rapidly at first but more slowly after maturity. Hence, giant specimens may be encountered on very rare occasions. [End of quote]

The older it is, the bigger it gets. Note, before the water canopy was eliminated, the average lifespan was 13 times longer than it is today. Remember, the air was pure, the water clean, and diet near perfect. There were no harmful rays from the sun and the lifespan was 13 times longer. Consider the present-day Chinese monitor lizard that grows as large as 12 feet long. Suppose before the flood, in a near perfect environment, the iguana would have lived 13 times longer, and because it never stops growing, would become 13 times bigger. That Chinese monitor lizard would be 156 feet long and about three stories tall. Dinosaur — terrible lizard. The dinosaur is simply a giant lizard which was created by God in the same six-day span as man.

It’s true: The reptile never stops growing—fast at first and slower as it ages.  This is not a perfect example, but it elucidates the point of pre-flood life. 

The headline in the March/April 2015 issue of Psychology Today reads, “Tinkering with Mortality.”  The subhead reads, “The quest for eternal life has been with us eternally.  But the latest interventions raise questions we’ve never before encountered.”  A paragraph follows:

The prospect of such treatments has energized a more radical group of thinkers, including Aubrey deGray, controversial chief science officer of SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence), who has suggested that, as we engineer aging out of our very cells, some people born today may live 1,000 years.  Such claims have drawn intense interest from certain Silicon Valley magnates who have made the war on aging a near obsession. [End of quote]

912 average years?  Yes, and of course.

💣 Feature #24: Hayflick Effect & 120 Years

Genesis 6:3:

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Some suggest that the “120 years” referenced does not deal with lifespan, but rather with ark preparations and preaching to the lost.  However, a plain, childlike reading of the passage clearly refers to the maximum lifespan of man.  Famed Jewish historian Josephus, born a few years after Christ, had this to say of Noah in the history book, Antiquities of the Jews:

Now God loved this man for his righteousness; yet he not only condemned those other men for their wickedness, but determined to destroy the whole race of mankind, and to make another race that should be pure from wickedness; and cutting short their lives, and making their years not so many as they formerly lived, but one hundred and twenty only, he turned the dry land into sea; and thus were all these men destroyed:  [End of quote]

Man begins immortal, but because of unbelief and disobedience, loses immortality.  Pre-flood, man lives an average of 912 years.  This Genesis passage from Noah and forward pegs the maximum lifespan for man at 120 average years.  Moses, by the way, died at the age of 120.

Could such an ancient proclamation be true?  Has today’s science discovered the truth of this statement? 

In Dr. Reginald Cherry’s book, The Bible Cure, the following paragraph is found:

Scientists have been trying to unravel the mysteries of aging for decades. In the early fifties, Leonard Hayflick, a scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, discovered a very interesting thing: All human cells are able to reproduce themselves only a certain number of times. This is estimated to be about fifty cell divisions, which Dr. Hayflick estimated would place the human life at between one hundred fifteen and one hundred twenty years. Researchers still don’t know what drives this cellular timetable, but the life span of humans seems to be set at approximately one hundred twenty years. Researchers can study a culture of human cells as they divide repeatedly until a maximum of fifty to sixty divisions, which equates to one hundred twenty years. [End of quote]

Thousands of years before modern science began to know the reason why, God declared it in His glorious book, the Holy Bible. These revelations are intimate truths that only the creator Himself could know. Can you hear His voice? Yes!  True and righteous altogether!  

💣 Feature #25: The Giants Aren’t Hiding

The world’s wise have scoffed at the Bible’s insistence that giants—even entire tribes of giants—once roamed the earth.  The Scriptures reference giants nearly 200 times.  Does secular history support such fantastical claims?  Is there a very clear and credible record?  The simple answer is, “of course there is.”

NOTE: The word Nephilim was popularized by the minority-text New International Version of the Bible and Nephilim means giants.  It is correctly rendered from Hebrew to English in the majority-text Authorized King James Version of the Bible as giants. Nephilim are giants.

Yes, there were giants in those days.  When discussing giants of old and people of enormous height, many people today lump these two together, referring to such terms as “gigantism” or “acromegaly,” a rare disorder of the pituitary gland which causes abnormal size.  But, the giants of the scriptures were not rare genetic flukes.  There were entire populations of giants.  The scriptures refer to giants nearly 200 times.  If the Word of God makes mention of giants so many times, then there should be empirical proof that they did once exist—and of course, there is. 

God reminds Israel of their roots in Deuteronomy 3:11:

For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Perhaps the first museum was in Rabbath, of the children of Ammon, where Og’s bed remained.  If you use the 18-inch cubit, his bed would be 13½ feet long and 6 feet wide—or, based on the 22-inch cubit, 16½ feet long and 7 feet, four inches wide.  Give him a foot for head and toe clearance, and you have a giant of 12½ to 15½ feet tall!  It is reported that German scholar Gustav Dalmon discovered the bed of the giant king—just where God said it sat. 

Flavius Josephus, one of the greatest historians of all time, writes the following in chapter five of The Antiquities of the Jews:

For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants.  There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing.  The bones of these men are still shewn to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men.  [End of quote]

According to the research collected by DeLoach, author of the book Giants:

Pliny mentions that in the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), a nine-foot-nine-inch giant named Gabbaras was brought to Rome from Arabia.  Claudius placed him at the head of the famed Adiutrix legions.  The giant so awed his troops that some worshipped him as a god. 

And again:

During his principate, Caesar Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) assigned two giants who towered over ten feet tall to lead the Roman armies into battle. “On account of this remarkable height,” writes Pliny, the bodies of the two giants “were preserved in the tomb in Sallust’s Gardens; their names were Pusio and Secundilla.” [End of quote]

Finally, from DeLoach, the following excerpt:

In 1970, some huge, fossilized footprints that he found in Australia’s outback so intrigued Dr. Rex Gilroy, director of the Mount York Natural History Museum at Mount Victoria, N.S.W., that he began excavations in that area.  Over the years, he gathered enough evidence to convince himself that a race of giants once dwelled there.  Near Bathurst, Dr. Gilroy turned up some stone implements, hand axes, clubs, pounders, adzes, knives, and other tools so huge that only giants with extra-large hands and strength could have made any beneficial use of them.  He also uncovered some giant molars and other fossilized footprints that measured up to thirty inches in length. “the implications are,” he wrote in an article detailing his archaeological finds, “that men of 12 to 20 feet in height once roamed this continent.” 

Marzulli, in his book On the Trail of the Nephilim, lists numerous newspaper reports concerning discovery of giants in the western hemisphere.  A few of the many headlines and excerpts follow:

⦁ New York Tribune—February 3, 1909 (Skeleton 15 Feet High Unearthed in Mexico)

⦁ Scientific American—August 14, 1880, Page 106 (Ancient American Giants)

⦁ The Vancouver Sun—August 18, 1922, P.9 (Primitive Man, Ten Feet Tall, Is Unearthed)

⦁ Anaconda Standard—April 29, 1890, P. 3

The Pony Express says that one day last week, carpenters on the Isdell irrigating ditch unearthed a skeleton of mammoth proportions.  By actual measurements, it was 13 feet and two inches in length.  The circumference of the skull when measured was found to be 37 inches.  The feet were 21 inches in length.  This is the second discovery of this kind made near Pony during the past year. 

Finally, Marzulli writes:

Buffalo Bill also wrote the following words about a legend recounted to him by members of the Sioux tribe:

It was taught by the wise men of this tribe that the Earth was originally peopled by giants, who were fully three times the size of modern men.  They were so swift and powerful that they could run alongside a buffalo, take the animal under one arm, and tear off a leg, and eat it as they ran.  So vainglorious were they because of their own size and strength that they denied the existence of a Creator.  When it lighted, they proclaimed their superiority to the lightning; when it thundered, they laughed. 

This displeased the Great Spirit, and to rebuke their arrogance, he sent a great rain upon the earth.  The valleys filled with water, and the giants retreated to the hills.  The water crept up the hills, and the giants sought safety on the highest mountains.  Still the rain continued, the waters rose, and the giants, having no other refuge, were drowned. [End of quote]

In Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters, a book by Stephen Quayle and Dr. T.R. Harris, you’ll find the following concerning giants in the ancient world:

As we can see, the ancient world was very familiar with the idea of giants.  In fact, as Quayle explores in Genesis 6 Giants, even early explorers recorded run-ins with giant beings. 

Interestingly enough, Magellan’s fleet encountered giants when they approached Port San Julian.  They saw a native giant on the beach waiting for them.  Antonio Pigafetta, one of the crewmen with Magellan, described the giant in his later writings: “This man was so tall that our heads scarcely came up to his waist, and his voice was like that of a bull.” 

Later, in 1578, Sir Francis Drake anchored in the same place and described men well over seven feet tall.  Anthony Knyvet visited the same area in 1592 and wrote of men which were ten to twelve feet tall.  In 1615, crewmen from the Dutch schooner Wilhelm Schouten discovered and excavated several skeletons ten to eleven feet tall.  As his log records, in 1764 when Commodore Byron visited the area, he encountered men “of a gigantic stature.” One of his officers wrote “some of them are certainly nine feet, if they do not exceed it.” [End of quotes]

It doesn’t take an inordinate amount of looking to debunk the Bible’s critics.  Giants?  Yes! Just like the Word of God says.

GOD SAID, Genesis 3:14-15:

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

GOD SAID, Genesis 5:5:

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

GOD SAID, Genesis 6:4:

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

MAN SAID: I take offense at that! What do you mean I’m blind?!  I’m the smartest person in the room!  My first cousin was a mushroom, my second cousin a banana, and my father a monkey!  See what I mean?

 

Now you have THE RECORD.

 

 

References:

Authorized King James Version

Blumner, R., Free Inquiry

GodSaidManSaid, “Hayflick Effect & 120 Years (The Genesis Series, Part 24)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Josephus Says 1,000 Years (The Genesis Series, Part 23)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Jubilee! (The Genesis Series #22)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Snakes + God-Inspired Truths (The Genesis Series, Part 21)”

GodSaidManSaid, “The Giants Aren’t Hiding”

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