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-0 Primordial Gap----------Brecha primordial
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-1 The 6 Days----------------Los 6 días
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-2 The Flood------------------El diluvio
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-3 - 4 Abram & 430----------Abram y 430
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-5a The 480 years------------Los 480 años
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-5b Acts 13:17-22------------Hechos 13.17-22
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-5c The 300 years------------Los 300 años
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-6 Divided Kingdom--------Reinos divididos
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-7 Kings Names-------------Nombres de reyes
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-8 Interregnum--------------El interregno
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-9 Ussher's overlap-------La superposición
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-10 Ussher's gap-------------Brecha de Ussher
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-11 The 70 sevens-----------Los 70 sietes
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-12 Life of Christ--------------La vida de Cristo
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-13 The Crucifixion----------La crucifixión
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K. Comparisons------------Comparaciones
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L. OT Calendars------------Calendarios del AT
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M. Measuring time----------Tiempo medido
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N. Final Summary----------Resumen final
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P. Acknowledgments-----Agradecimientos
1. The 6 Days of Creation
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1. The 6 Days of Creation
a. We should probably understand the first two verses, Genesis 1:1-2, to be the first part of Day 1, this part commencing with darkness, evening, in which God created a sphere with all its geological intricacies covered with water. The second part of Day 1, God created light, morning, the Source of which was probably God Himself similar to that stated in Revelation 21, “a new heaven and a new earth”, verse 1, in which there will be “no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof,” verse 23.
b. Day 1 was attended by the angels, Job 38:6-7, “Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
c. These angels seem to have, at least, a twofold office: 1) To worship and praise God, as at Creation and, perhaps also in the past, i.e., before Day 1, Job 38:6-7, and 2) To serve God as messengers, Luke 1:19. Since the angels are not mentioned in the Creation account, we may assume that they were created before Day 1 and were part of God’s economy as singers and worshippers of God, but as to how long before Day 1, we do not know. In fact, some argue that the angels were created at the beginning of Day 1. This is, admittedly, a possibility.
d. If there were angels before Day 1, then there definitely was space and time before Day 1. My view goes against the view of my brother philosophers who hold that time and space are created entities along with matter, but since I am not qualified to refute them, you are free to believe them, but I am fairly convinced that time and space are attributes of God. I was not there, but since God always existed He had to be somewhere and everywhere, and where He was could not have been a created place but must have been an inherent part of His nature. Thinking along these lines then, space (the abode of God) is an attribute of God.
e. We may further infer that math and music, languages of God, are also attributes of God, and furthermore that since time is essential to music, then time is another attribute of God. Time is a relative thing and has individual applications such as the specific time-measuring system that we use now but was completed as an astronomical and solidly material clock on Day 4.
f. Nevertheless, with a light source on Day 1, there only needs to be an axial rotation of the world at a specified rate on Day 1 to conclude that the 24-hour system of time-measuring was, indeed, in place on Day 1. We do not need to be bogged down by those who say that the adequate measuring of time is dependent on the existence of the sun when, in fact, it is dependent on only two things: A light source, and an axial rotation of the Earth at a specified rate. These were present on Day 1.
g. Since the phrase “the heavens and the earth” comprise the plural of heavens we may infer that the heavens are, at least, twofold: 1) Where the stars are, Day 4, and 2) Where the birds fly, Day 5. Whether the heavens include more than this seems probable, because a “third heaven” is mentioned, the abode of God who is Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:47 and Ephesians 6:9, but also the abode of angels, Galatians 1.8, as well as the future abode of the saved, Philippians 3:20 and John 14:1-3.
h. The third heaven must necessarily include the two previous heavens in the sense that God has jurisdiction over them, but these two “created heavens” should more appropriately be termed “His space that is dedicated to material things”. That is, the material world inhabits a finite part of His totally infinite space while simultaneously He is entirely separate from matter seeing that He created it. The space dedicated to matter, if the matter were removed or annihilated, would return to God’s essence.
i. The astronomical clock of Day 4 serves specifically for “signs for seasons, for days, and for years,” Genesis 1:14. From the standpoint of Bible chronology, these three purposes of the astronomical clock are very important. It is evident that our time-measuring system, begun on Day 1 and completed on Day 4, will continue until the end of the world, Genesis 8:22.
j. This being the case, we have no reason to doubt that seasons, days and years have run at the same rate since the creation week. Even though we may acknowledge that God has His own time agenda of which we are ignorant, nevertheless, when He speaks to us in His word, the Bible, we can be assured that any references to seasons, days and years, are references to the time-measuring system that He set up for us, so we do not have to imagine that a day for us in our system is anything other than those days that are in the context of seasons and years, and cannot possibly be construed as instantaneous moments or billions of eons, etc. One day is one day!
k. It says in 2 Peter 3:8, “that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” This a simile that tells us not that God is outside of time but that His time measuring system is not equivalent to ours.
l. Furthermore, the use of the words seasons, days and years must of necessity be of a literal understanding because this is the beginning of how these words were originally used, and there can be no figurative use of a word that is used “in the beginning” or used later on to describe something that happened “in the beginning.” A figurative usage, if it arises, can only develop after the literal usage has been well established, so this ought to lay to rest any attempts to treat Genesis 1 through 11 as poetry or allegory.
m. Some may further cavil that Moses could have used figurative language since he wrote his account so many years after the fact, but we need further to understand that even though he wrote the account well after the beginning, he wrote historically about the beginning and the vocabulary that is utilized about the beginning must necessarily use words that actually describe what he was talking about and he did this by resorting to chronology, i.e., sequences, and durations that are defined by the basic elements of the time-measuring system that was originally set up, namely seasons, days and years.
n. Therefore, the chrono-genealogy of Genesis 5 that ties together the two events of Creation and the Flood are expressed in days and years and give credence to the Creation Week having a chronology of 7 days which is tied to the Flood account that is spoken of in terms of days, weeks, and months which add up to a little more than one year for the whole Flood event—all of this is rolled into one event by the link of Genesis 5.
o. The whole chronology of Creation, Genealogy and Flood must necessarily all run uninterrupted by the same clock. It is fair to assume that this historical sequence was uninterrupted since an interruption would constitute a break in what was obviously intended to be chronological history, therefore such a break would need an attending explanation.
p. Time in the abstract is comprised of durations with endings. All durations have a beginning and an end. The two ends of each duration are comprised finite units. All these finite units when set forth in their proper order and relationship and placed on the absolute scale of God’s economy concerning time will be found to add up to infinity wherein our universe in a finite part. The sum of all durations must be infinite.
q. Jesus said, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last,” Revelation 22:13. In Psalm 106:48 it says, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting.” Putting them together we have ultimate limits going on forever in both directions. This sounds like a duration to me, a long one, an infinite one.
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- 2010E--Paul's updated 3942 BC--English version--Rev.01--8.pdf
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- 2006E--Paul's post-Ussher 3942 BC--English version--Rev01.pdf
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- 2005E--Ussher's 4004 BC--English version--Rev06--With Luke's List.pdf
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- 1980E--Paul's original 4100 BC--English version--Rev07.pdf