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utside the Garden of Eden, provision was made for fellowship with
God but this involved the death of a substitute. A lamb was
prescribed, and soon we read of Cain and Abel bringing offerings to God.
Cain steadfastly refused to shed the blood of a lamb and thus was
rejected by God. After refusing to shed the blood of a lamb as a sin
offering (Gen.4:7) he slew his brother, and thereafter violence
characterized the Age of Conscience, till we read,
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence (Gen 6:11).
The civilisation before the Flood was cultured and skilled in the
manufacture of musical instruments and implements of iron, brass
and gold. We read of the sons of Lamech in the line of Cain, that his
son Jubal was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ
(Gen 4:21), and Jubals brother Tubal-cainwas an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron (Gen4:22). Such skills indicate an advanced
cultural and industrial society.
In 1922 Sir Leonard Woolley led an archeological dig for the British
Museum at Ur, where Abram had lived. He found beneath an 8-foot
thick layer of clay a golden helmet or wig of the most exquisite design,
together with many other artifacts. These items from ancient graves
predated the Flood and testify to the amazing skills of the antediluvian
civilisation.
Sir Leonard observed:
In no single grave has there been any figure
of a god, any symbol or ornament that strikes
one as being of a religious nature.
The antediluvian civilisation was apparently
materialistic and sensual, and this is entirely
consistent with everything Scripture has to say
Helmet of Gold from Ur
about it. Jesus said of the days before the Flood,
...they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew
not until the flood came, and took them all away (Matt.24:38-39).
Genesis chapter 6 paints the grim picture as follows:
Men began to multiply on the face of the earth...they took them wives of
all which they chose...every imagination of the thoughts of his (mans)
heart was only evil continually...The earth also was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence (Gen.6:1-2,5,11).
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Adam
130
AGE OF
INNOCENCE
105
90
70
AGE OF
CONSCIENCE
65
162
Enoch
65
Methuselah
187
930
365
182
912
Noah
905
910
895
500
962
Shem
100
THE EXODUS
600
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100 Abraham
60 AGE
OF
PROMISE
74
(63) Levi
(63) Kohath
(65) Amram
137
120
430 YEARS
OF
SOJOURN
Exod.12:40,41.
950
438
433
464
35 30
Peleg
AGE OF
34
30
32 GOVERNMENT
30
29
130
175
180
147
137
133
239
239
230
148
205
969
777
NOAHS FLOOD
12
80
Moses
Descendants of
SHEM through Abram
Gen 10:2-5
Gen 10:6-20
Gomer& Magog
(Ukraine).
40 years in the
Wilderness
Conquest of Canaan
under Joshua
Magog, Meshech
& Tubal (Russia).
Mizraim (Egypt)
Togarmah
(Eastern Turkey)
Asshur (Assyria)
Javan (Greece)
Canaan
(Canaanites)
Kittim (Italy)
Rehoboam
Abijam
Asa
536 BC
445 BC
Jerusalem
Rebuilt
PERSIAN EMPIRE
The
Times
of
Gentiles
Temple
Rebuilt
516 BC
330 BC
GRECIAN EMPIRE
63 BC
ROMAN EMPIRE
32 AD
18
Jeroboam
Nadab
Baasha
Elah
Zimri
Omri
Jehoshaphat
Ahab
Joram
Ahaziah
Ahaziah
Joram
Joash
Jehu
Jehoahaz
Jonah
Amaziah
Joash
Amos
Azariah
Jeroboam II
Zachariah
(Uzziah)
Isaiah
Shallum
Hosea
Menahem
Micah
Pekahiah
Jotham
Pekah
Ahaz
Assyrian Captivity
Hoshea
Hezekiah
of the Northern
Manasseh
Kingdom
721
BC
Amon
Nahum
Josiah
Zephaniah
Jehoahaz
Habakkuk
TSObadiah
Jehoiakim
E
606 BC
Jehoiachin
Jeremiah PH
Zedekiah
BABYLONIAN
Ezekiel
O
70 years
PR Daniel
EMPIRE
E
Babylonian Captivity
EGYPTIAN EMPIRE
Saul
David
Solomon
Casluhim &
Caphtorim
(Philistines)
ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
Tarshish (Britain)
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Zechariah
Haggai
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Joel
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Malachi
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Samaritans
Ashkenaz &
Madai (Medes/
Central Asia).
Othniel
Ehud
Shamgar
Barak
Gideon
Abimelech
Tola
Jair
Jephthah
Ibzam
Elon
Abdon
Samson
Eli
Samuel
AGE OF
LAW
15 JUDGES
Descendants of
JAPHETH
Comes
20
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