One of the most interesting things about the Bible is how inclusive God was in
telling us about how old someone was when becoming the father of a first son,
or when a major event happened. By God's word we are able to diagram all the way from Adam's birth through the
line of Seth to the arrival of the Jews to the Land of Promise. The tightest string of "begats", Adam’s line
through Seth, almost seems to end with the Flood of Noah (Genesis 6). But with careful attention to the following chapters of Genesis and Exodus the
entirety of this procession of people and events continues over the flood and
culminates with the Jews entering the Land of Promise.
In my earliest work, I could not help but sense that this procession of numbers
was provided to us for a reason – other than the challenge of attempting to memorize it all for some well
intended Sunday school teacher.
I have not tried to establish any correlation between the events of the Old
Testament and a BC calendar (counting backwards from the Birth of Christ). it seems to me that to attempt to do so
would result in any number of circular arguments and create a distraction from
my overall work. I have focused on what the Bible does say and leave it to others to theorize
about such dates or to suppose what the Bible does not say. The Bible does provide the precise years going forward from Adam to the Land of
Promise, and so it deserved attention as an integral part of this project.
As a matter of considerable personal interest, this approach shows that Abraham was born 1948 years from Adam's birth and we know from modern history
that Israel was officially made a state among the world's nations 1948 years
from the birth of Jesus Christ. Today’s Jews also know this fact about Abraham’s birth date but do not acknowledge Jesus as LORD and so they do not also see
this as particularly noteworthy.
Do you believe this is a coincidence or, in the purest sense, “prophetic”?
On its own a diagram of the people and events from Adam to the Land of Promise
would be of modest interest. It perhaps helps to get a better grasp of who came before whom and how long
before this or that happened, but really not much else. The import of this information, however, is considerable when applied to the
overall plan of creation. The complete diagram (Adam to the Land of Promise) has a set position on the
whole Creation Plan diagram which illuminates critical information and provides
confirmations that cannot be seen any other way - much like the legend to a
treasure map. This diagram is only one component of the overall plan, but essential to
grasping the whole.
