Lost Continent of Atlantis
Jerry Wilhite, author I have taught how, in Genesis 6, the sons of God are the same as in Job 1 and 2 and that these are the angels of God, but in Genesis 6 it is referring to the fallen angels. What is the point of all of this? To understand that Satan did not just bring sin and cut us off from God spiritually, but physically as well. If you study Genesis 3-6 you see where men walked with God in the flesh, but in Exodus Moses could not bear to see the face of God or it would kill him. The only reason seeing God after Genesis 6 would kill is that sins some how entered into the flesh of mankind. In Genesis 6 when the sons of God (fallen angels) mated with daughters of man, it was like mating a cat and a dog, two different creatures. Also in Genesis 6 Noah was found to have favor with God. Actually it says he was found to be perfect. We know this is not in the spiritual, because Adam's sin cut us all off from that until Jesus would come to restore the connection. So all that is left is the flesh, and if you look at Noah's age, you see he was born before the mating of the fallen angels and daughters of man. Therefore he would still be perfect in the flesh. Unfortunately his wife was born afterward, and Noah's children were only half of Noah so not pure as Noah was. In my studies in Genesis 6:4 the giants and men of renown are two different types. One was physically big, a giant, while those of renown were giants of technology. They were the ones making scientific discoveries and using scientific inventions. From the remains found of the Mark, the metallurgy Noah employed for the rivets, and the design for the structure it is believed they may have been as advance, if not more so than we are now. We know before the flood the earth was only divided by rivers and lakes, no seas. After the flood all of the water it took to cover the entire earth did not all recede, so we ended up with great oceans and seas dividing us. This is being proven more and more by archeologists who, in diggings in the US, show that at one time the earth's continents had to be connected to have so many of the same creatures in all parts at the same time. So if the pre-flood earth was 90-99% land and after (due to the amount of water it took to flood it so fast) the land mass was reduced to 1/3rd, then all that had lived on the other 2/3rds of land would be found deep in the oceans. I am sure you have heard how archeologists have found cities that where lower than what we call sea level, some as deep as thousands of feet. So at one time the water level had to be a lot lower. My point is this, if we have land mass now gone due to the flood, and we know of men of renown, or technological giants of their time, this could explain one of the oldest and longest lived myths. The myth of Atlantis, what if these giants of technology lived on a landmass between where Noah lived and where the US is today? That would place it about middle of what we call the Atlantic Ocean. This also would explain how out of all of the myths of the past this one has held water the longest (sorry about the pun). Look at it this way, we know Adam ate of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. Key word knowledge, what if this knowledge was all knowledge, then it could be passed down from one generation to the next and it could explain a lot. We know mankind grieved God so much he was sorry for even making us, to the point of destroying all He made. We know God saw only evil in mankind after the mating of the two groups. Think about this; we know the fallen angels were evil, where man was not. Mankind, for the most part, was not evil until after the sons of God and daughters of man had children. In describing men, women, boys, or girls, God would not say the sons of God and daughters of man if they were both of man. God would just say the sons, and daughters of man. For evil to truly enter man it had to do it in the flesh; the flesh had to be perverted. Before the "flesh" was referred to as the "body"; afterward "flesh" is always used in a negative manner, "carnality". Satan also knew that, as long as man and God walked together, man would not "out and out" rebel, and faith would be based more on fact, than on the word. Satan had to do something to separate man and God in the physical sense. Satan also knew sin could not exist in the presence of God; for if so the sin and whatever it was in would be destroyed. So, if Satan could get sin in the flesh or I should say the bodies of mankind, then he would have the upper hand because he could be in the presence of mankind and God could not. What was it that Adam got as far as knowledge from eating of the fruit? We have all accepted that it was evil, but what evil? Evil knowledge, and good knowledge. The television is not evil, but in the wrong hands it is the carrier of evil and could be the same for good. So what Adam got was both, total knowledge of all evil and all good. Genesis 3 22. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: When God said, " Behold, the man is become as one of us", He does not refer to "us" as "many beings", but many "senses", many "parts to the one being". In some ways complete, but not complete because of knowledge of evil - complete in all knowledge of both good and evil. It has always been my feeling that God planted the tree of knowledge of good and evil, not to tempt or test Adam, but for it to be available to him when he was ready - as we do with power in our homes. We do not remove all electricity until our children are old enough to understand not to stick their fingers in an outlet; we protect the unused outlets with covers, and tell our children not to stick their finger into the outlet. Still many children do, this one included. When I was 4 I checked it out to my shock (again sorry about the pun). Yes, my parents had told me to stay away, but curiosity got the better of me. Yes, I know curiosity killed the cat, but remember the rest of that saying - satisfaction brought him back. Adam in a lot of ways was like a child who had been told not to eat of the one fruit. He would not have done it , but someone added to God's word and twisted it. After a while Adam believed it in its twisted form, rather than the way God actually spoke. When he saw Eve touch and then eat and nothing happened, he thought it must be all right. The problem was God never told Eve, or even told Adam that Eve could not eat. God only told Adam he could not eat. Genesis 3 1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Notice in verse 3 the word touch has been added, someone added to what God said. Most likely Adam. I mean it was only God, Adam and Eve, and we know it was not God, and Eve would have no reason to add to it. But Adam being like a parent instead of an equal to Eve decides it is best for her she if does not even touch the tree. The idea is this, God created, and in time when Adam was ready God would have let Adam eat of the tree. If not, there is no reason to even have the tree present. As any parent until the child is old enough and has enough snap to use electricity wisely, we keep them away from it, but we do not remove it entirely. the same is true here with the tree. The knowledge Adam must have gotten what a mass amount of information. I imagine even our biggest and best computers could not have held all Adam got that day. As time went on, and man was perverted in the flesh the roots of perversion dug deep in the evil knowledge. Compare that to what we have heard described by some tales of Atlantis and you can then see my point. My point being whether it was called Atlantis or not, there was a group of men who had the great knowledge described as being had by those of Atlantis. A few descendants of Adam could have still had, for the most part, most if not all of the knowledge. Then add what the fallen angels had mixed with that of man and you would have advanced technology beyond what you see in the futuristic movies of today. AND it was used for wickedness more than anything else along with sacrifices, of virgins and children maybe, but of animals definitely. So, you decide. Was Atlantis during the early part of our earth, in the first few "days" of the new week for God after finishing the first week of creation and a day of rest? Maybe it was not even that long, maybe it was only a "day" after. It sure does help make sense out of a lot of the first few chapters of Genesis and of the myth of Atlantis. This is one time you must decide. Will it add a day to your life, or just make your life better in any way? I doubt it, but it may make sense of some areas that before did not add up.