The First Earth Part I

What was the First World like?

So we have this image of a temperate, lush planet with much more livable space than today.  Tropical forests and fruit in what is now Siberia, redwood trees10ft in diameter and prolific ferns in Antarctica!  The first world was an entirely different place than now, and God himself declared it Very Good!  (Genesis 1:31).  So what was it like then and what happened that changed it all?  The food system for man and animals was entirely vegetarian, because God wanted nothing to do with bloodshed.  There was little fear in the wild animal groups of man, wonder and harmony filled the earth, it was a masterpiece of Gods handiwork!

Redwoods are found near both poles, some of large diameter as well as a plethora of tropical flora and fauna.  The Bible teaches that the earth was watered using a system of underground aquifers and spring sourced rivers.   A morning and evening dew "that watered the surface of the entire earth" eliminated the need for rain and storms.  
To quote from recent research near the North Pole;

"Axel Heiberg Island, at 82 degrees north and just a stone's throw from the North Pole [are] lush redwood forests, ferns, flowering plants, and a huge variety of animals, now extinct, once thrived here. "I've always been enraptured with the idea that the Earth can change so dramatically," said Jahren "The Earth today is very different compared to how it was,

much of northern Siberia and Alaska were covered in temperate forests with redwood-like trees called Metasequoias, similar to those now seen in Northern California.  The trees were between 100-130ft tall and densely packed, providing a canopy for a plethora of ferns and flowers, said Jahren. The largest tree found had a diameter of three meters (ten feet). What remains of these ancient redwoods today is "rather extraordinary." 

It should be noted the environment was simalar at the South Pole as well.  Another key finding was the presence of a rare isotope of Oxygen, Ox16, which indicates that the soil was watered not from rainfall but from aquifer based sources, exactly as the Bible describes in Genesis

The researchers' analysis of the oxygen content of the wood revealed "a bizarre absence of oxygen-18, the heavy isotope," said Jahren. Water contains both oxygen 16—the more common and lighter isotope—and the more rare oxygen 18. The analysis suggests that the water contained almost exclusively oxygen 16.  "One way to get water with these characteristics, said Jahren, is for that water to have traveled large distances over land. As water travels over land", she explained, the heavier oxygen is removed as it rains.

(1)  Edited by author for space.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0326_020326_TVredwoods.html  (1)

As we can see here, this is an honest researcher who is perplexed by the evidence at hand vs a perceived model being an old-earth with evolution and long ages it's center piece.  But why was this water so pure and perfect for flora and fauna where temperatures are now -50f in winter?  If the water came from underground aquifers and it never rained, the Ox 18 mystery is solved.

The Biblical Model explains it - a "Very Good" earth suggests you could live most places in your shorts and tee-shirt, play in the warm water, enjoy oxygen rich air and have a cool drink anytime from the stream's that spring from the massive underground aquifers that cycle, clean and enrich the waters.  (Most likely pumped by lunar flexing of the earths crust each 6 hours centered across the equator). No worry's about sudden storms or drops in temperature, one can live about anywhere and enjoy the mild climates. Think of the most beautiful vacation spot on earth now and the first earth would make it look a parking lot. The animals were not aggressive and food abounded,  there was little disease and sickness - people lived for hundreds of years!  We know from fossil study the atmosphere was oxygen rich and the ocean water very different, analysis of the shells of nataloiuds support this concept.  The atmosphere was likely hyperbolic; supporting much larger life forms than today, for instance large insects with tiny breathing holes have been found which would be oxygen starved in today's air.  The Bible also teaches people lived hundreds of years, 969 years in the case of Methuselah and over 600 for Noah!

One could enjoy a sunny day and a beautiful sunrise and sunset as the evening air would create stunning splashes of unparalleled soothing pink light!  At the higher latitudes you could travel and enjoy a cooler summer retreat and observe the wildlife and scenery.  Oceans would be calm enough to sail small craft thousands of miles by wind and current power along stunningly beautiful coasts into inlets lined with hills where you could view the thriving wildlife.  Words fail to describe what God calls "Very Good" in that first pristine and unpolluted world.  I hope you get the idea, we can only guess what it was like, it was Gods most perfect gift to Mankind, but He didnt stop there.  He gave people love and marriage, the greatest and most important gift of all! Such place for two people in love to share! 
Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12; “I was caught up into Paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak”. 
 
Ezekiel saw another place, where in the new earth a rivier flows from the new temple in Jerusalem; "I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river. “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh. Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets. The fish will be of many kinds—like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea. Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”  
   

We must understand that the world we view today is a post-flood world and it's most magnificent beauty is only a poor image of what God created in the beginning.  A true statement is this; The entire visible universe was made ultimately for people to live in, enjoy and praise God for.  We should never take any of it  for granted.  It was all about to end.  Man's rebellion and defiance had pushed God too far so God spoke to Noah and revealed what was about to happen.  We know the rest of the story as documented in the Bible, it started -
 

The Fountains of the Great Deep Burst Forth! Genesis 7:11!

      

At the Beginning of the Flood the Bible says the first event was not rain, but the "Fountains of the Great Deep Bust Forth" (Gen. 7:11).  This means the massive aquifer system that everyone took for granted shattered and blew into the atmosphere.  When you look at the mid-ocean rifts and the underwater parallel surge lines of lava, it's smoking gun evidence of a rapid separation of the crusts and folding of the continents.  New deep well exploration around the Himalayas and in Russia have hit deep aquifer's of water, shocking the geological world.  This water plane would have allowed the continents to slide away from the separation points, (now mid-ocean rifts), causing this world-wide calamity.  This hyper-speed release of water into the earth's atmosphere must have destroyed part of our atmosphere that maintained a protective greenhouse effect and hyperbolic atmosphere on the first earth.  It was all coming unraveled. The series of earthquakes, tsunami's, ash fall and polar temperature drops induced unimaginable calamity on the entire surface of the earth;the human population could not escape, they had ignored and mocked God and it was too late to repent, sound like today? 

Their troubles have only just begun!

With the Aquifer water system now shattered and climate changed, and new order and cooler climate came into play.  God knew protein would be vital as all the soils of earth were now redistributed, meat was allowed to be used and provided for a more rapid re-habitation of what was left of Earth.  There was far less habitable and cultivatable space so the protein would be needed for now.  It would take many years before things would approach normalcy on the planet again as the results of the catastrophe played out and an ice age would ensue at the higher latitudes of both poles.   We live today in only an image of what God had called "Very Good"!  One day when the Earth is reconstructed we will see what that statement really means.  See The First Earth Part II and the Ice age next, thank you!

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Scientists that Dispute Evolution;
DarwinAd4.qxd - 100ScientistsAd.pdf


Videos;
▶ The Hydroplate Theory - The Flood ( Newer version! ) - YouTube
  Genesis Flood - What It May Of Looked Like - YouTube

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