Man's Greatest Adventure

Pastor Jerry Wilhite, author

If you truly want to know the truth, then what you are about to read is for you. But if you get offended when someone says something that goes against what you have been taught or believe this may be very offensive for you. For those who get offended easily, no matter what causes the offense, you need to stop all you are doing and spend 1 hour a day quiet and I mean quiet, do not even think. Listen for the voice of God, and do this daily until you hear from Him and Him only. When you do hear from God, verify each time it is God by asking, "Did Jesus come in the flesh?" If you hear "no" then it is not God and Satan instead. Just tell him (Satan) to go to Hell, and listen until you hear from God. And when you hear the answer "Yes" then you know it is God.

1 John 4

1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

John would never have given us a way to test whom we are hearing from if we were not to hear from God. For those of you who need more, I will give you a few more verses. If this is not enough, I suggest you do as I stated above about spending an hour a day before doing anything else.

1 John 2

27. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

If you do not understand anointing, imagine a sponge lifted out of a bowl of water dripping wet. It has water in, on and through it, so it is anointed with water.

So, with what are we to be anointed?

First understand that the word Christ is a Greek word, and not the last name of Jesus or His title. Christ translated to English is anoint(ed)(ing), and Jesus stated He was anointed with the Spirit of God. So since He is THE Christ, and we are of Christ we are to be anointed with the Spirit of God as well, to have the Spirit in us, on us, and all through out us.

Luke 4

18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Do we not have that when we are saved?

No, when you were saved you had the connection to God again; you had His Spirit in you but not on and all throughout you.

What is the difference? ‘In you’ means it has to battle the flesh daily for the Soul (mind, will, and emotions). Who you really are is a soul, not a spirit or a body. The body is nothing more than a vehicle to carry you around. Just as your car carries your body, soul and spirit from place to place. Your soul is your mind, memories, personality, characteristics that make you, you, as well as your emotions, love, hate, joy, sadness, etc. Your will is where you make choices. Based on your will you will love or hate, forgive or not, allow the flesh to dictate or give the choice to the spirit.

What is the brain? That is what stores data, and memories, some programs you are able to use, paint, sing, play a musical instrument, etc. Imagine yourself as a computer. The hard drive is your brain, the ram where you actually operate the programs and use the data is your soul, and the case the hardware is in is your body.

The spirit is on loan; it is not yours. It is God's; He loans it to us. It is part of Him. Your DNA has parts of your mother and father in it, so you carry part of both with you. The spirit is more; it is part of God imparted in you at conception. Then as you go through life you either connect again with God or not.

So life is 3 steps:

1. In the womb your whole world is the size of a basketball, life span of 9 months, and totally alien to this life, you live in water. You are either male or female.
2. This life has a larger world, a longer potential life span of 60, 90 years, and in some ways totally alien to the next. Because in the next there is no sin, no death, pain, aging, sadness, etc. Here you decide to be lost or saved.
3. The next life is in an even bigger place if you are saved – the new earth, and your life span is either eternal torment or eternity with God.

Genesis 2

7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Matthew 10

28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 16

25. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

26. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

I find it sad that there are those who believe that some alien came to the earth in eons past and made us or will come and what, dominate us? If there were aliens and they could travel the distance needed to come here, they would see us as mice or as some want us to be monkeys. As far as evolution is concerned, I dare anyone show me actually where anything has evolved from something else in a series of at least 3 steps.

I have met, and heard a lot of archeologists who almost all laugh at evolution for the most part even though they do not believe in creation. Most if not all who did not believe in creation and God and that were trying to prove there is no God have in time proved to themselves the opposite, and have come to be some of the biggest contributors to the proof of God.

Let’s get back to giving you verses regarding hearing from God.

John 14

26. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The next verse was the verse that made it impossible for me to ever doubt again about my salvation. It made it literally impossible to lose my salvation. When I heard God call me His child, I knew I was saved.

Romans 8

16. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Adam had great knowledge

Here are a few things you need to think about and understand before we start.

1. Adam was created physically mature but he had not yet developed to psychological maturity; there is a difference. For lack of a better word Adam needed time to develop into maturity to handle the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. As with a 5-year-old if you gave a child a gun without yet developing the maturity to handle it, the child could and most likely would die from the gun. The idea is that a child would grow and develop into maturity and be able to handle the gun without killing himself.
   Recently I saw on CNN A study was done where they had told a 5-year-old not to touch the gun. The 5-year-old promised he would not, and they still put the gun up out of reach. Within 5 minutes the 5-year-old after being left alone got the gun and had shot himself. Of course there were no bullets in the gun, but the point was that even after telling the child do not touch, and the child agreeing not to touch, it was no more than 5 minutes until the child had climbed up gotten the gun and shot himself. Why? Due to a lack of maturity and that was Adam with the fruit. He had been created mature, but had not developed into maturity where he would know and understand how to handle the knowledge.
2. Why is there such a clash between evolution and creation over how old the earth is? First of all God created everything mature as He did Adam. Adam could not survive on the earth before it matured, so all appeared older than it was. It was created millions of years old or thousands of years old. The problem is we are not sure how long a day was in Genesis 1. In II Peter 3:8 we read that a day unto God is as a thousand years unto us. So then the first 7 days based on II Peter would be seven thousand years, but a thousand may have been just a number the author used to represent an extremely long, unfathomable period of time. Since God created it all mature and He is God, then that is possible.
3. Next Adam was able to name all of the creatures of the earth, and that would require using more of our brains than we do. We use between 12-14% only, and I bet you could not name 50 animals much less them all. He had the knowledge of what each was and how it should be named. Remember Adam had the perfect connection to God via the Spirit. The spirit only at this point fed the soul, not the flesh.

II Peter

8. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Have you ever wondered why incest today leads to birth defects and is a big no-no, but in Adam and Noah's days it was ok and led to no problems?

Or what was it that got God so mad at mankind to want to do away with all creation.

How about this, what was Noah perfect in? It was not the spirit, because of sin mankind had lost its connection spiritually with God.

What about the dinosaurs? If all dating of dinosaurs, fossils, etc was done by carbon date testing and now we know that nothing dated by carbon date testing could be more than 4,500 years old. So does that mean there were dinosaurs here 4,500 years ago.

Carbon date testing uses Carbon 14 which is a by product of Nitrogen 14 that has been bombarded by cosmic radiation in the atmosphere and subsequently absorbed by plants and then consumed by animals and on up the food chain to humans and other omnivores. By measuring the amount of C14 they supposedly measure the age something is. But now with the knowledge that Noah's flood did happen and that at one time the earth was in a ball of water, then that radiation could not have gotten through. Meaning that radiation only got through after the flood and that was approximately 4,500 years ago. Consider this - there have been very few dinosaurs found in comparison to how many that were suppose to have lived. So where are the rest of them? Why have most been found in a way to suggest they were trying to get to higher ground?

Since the earth had no oceans or Great Lakes before the flood then that would mean people would lived at lower altitudes than we do. We mostly live at sea level, some higher and very few lower. But if the oceans were not there back then, wouldn't most live at the lower parts of the world, not the higher? They could have lived 2 miles below our current sea level.

By studying the anatomy of the large dinosaur’s rib cages, they determined that their lungs would have required more oxygen in the atmosphere since the capacity was so limited. So living 2 miles below what we call sea level would mean a thicker, richer O2 than at sea level. So those young dinosaurs or eggs on the Mark would not have survived long after hatching at the new higher level they would have been at after the world was flooded.

When Adam sinned he did not die physically and he did not die in his soul. So how did he die? He died spiritually; he lost his connection with God. Death of the soul and the flesh or sin of the soul and flesh did happen later. That is why, even after killing Abel, Cain was still allowed in the presence of God. Cain even said his punishment was too harsh.

Genesis 4

13. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

14. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Genesis 5

24. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Enoch walked with God and then he was taken. So what is the big deal about walking with God?

Exodus 33

20. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

What had changed in mankind between Genesis 5 and Exodus 33:20 that man could no longer see the face of God without being destroyed?

Genesis 6

1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Genesis (4-5) shows that men and women were already having children so the 2 above verses are not stating that this is when that started. It does say that when men began to multiply and they had daughters then the sons of God saw the daughters of men.

Sons of God is only used here and in Job 1:2.

Job 1

6. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

The "sons of God" referred to in Genesis 5:2 are fallen angels. It was after this that God repented of creating mankind. Why, what was so bad about angels and mankind mating?

Imagine a cat and a dog, yes we are that different, and God did not create us to mingle the two together. Especially the fallen angels, and yes they could appear as men and exceptional men to boot.

What really helps us see this perversion had taken place is in Genesis 6:8-9

Genesis 6

8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

9. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord is the first part. Actually the word should be favor not grace.

Strong's Ref. # 2580

Romanized chen

Pronounced khane

from HSN2603; graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty):

KJV--favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, [well-]favoured.

The part that shows us the most is that Noah was a man "perfect in his generations". We know that does not refer to his spiritual life, and his soul could be a big part but actually it would be that his body and soul were not polluted with the perversion of a fallen angel in his ancestry. His age also gives it away because he was born before this had started. His wife was not perfect so his children were contaminated by the perversion.

This also explains why, as time went by, after the flood incest became a problem where before the flood it was not. Being perverted in the flesh incest became a way to show the flaws caused by the mating of the two different creations.

The word generations should be family or more likely birth. Since he was born before the perversion he was still perfect in the flesh.

Strong's Ref. # 8435

Romanized towldah

Pronounced to-led-aw'

or toldah {to-led-aw'}; from HSN3205; (plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history:

KJV--birth, generations.

Genesis 6

9.

|0428| These are

|8435| the generations of

|5146| Noah.

|5146| Noah,

|0376| a man

|6662| righteous,

|8549| whole

|1961| had been

|8435| among his peers.

|0000| with

|0430| God

|5146| Noah

|1980| walked.

Noah was perfect or without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), whole.

Strong's Ref. # 8549

Romanized tamiym

Pronounced taw-meem'

from HSN8552; entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth:

KJV--without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), whole.

Understand Satan knew that as long as mankind could walk with and see God the chance of man not believing was slim. But once mankind could no longer see God, well that helped him in what he wanted.

Why is Satan so bent on our destruction if he knows he can not win?

Ever heard of suicide bombers of WWII, kamikaze? They were Japanese who believed if they could not win by just dropping bombs, they would die while taking out as many of the enemy as they could. The same thing is true for Satan. He knows the more he takes the more it hurts God and he is out to hurt God all he can.

Did you know they had technology back then? Those that are referred to as mighty men of old, men of renown are warriors, but as well mighty men in their ways, all ways.

Remember Adam had all knowledge, some would be passed on naturally to his offspring but more would be developed over all the time he had from sin to death, which was a very, very long time to share that knowledge. Just as most if not all fathers since has done with their children. If it is hard to imagine remember by Genesis 6 we are looking at 2,000 years since sin, and look at what mankind has done in the past 200 years one tenth of 2,000 years.

Genesis 6

4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

So evil grew, and how does evil grow today? By television, movies, radio, games, computers, and technology.

I want you to think about this, after the flood and as mankind was no longer perfect or pure, just how much did we change? What did mankind look like before? Also think about how much the earth changed. To place enough water to cover the entire planet would make everything change. Just in the past 20-30 years has mankind developed a vessel able to handle the pressure at great depths, before all vessels would have been crushed like an eggshell by the pressure. So with the pressure of all the millions of tons of water on the earth just how much did it change? Remember the earth had no great oceans before, just lakes at the most. Apparently based on finding cities below our sea level many lived lower than we do now.

There are cities found in the past 10 years that were at one time sea level or lower that are now 500-1000 feet lower than present sea level. Some are even far enough down and out to show that they were not just a city that fell into the sea from a mudslide or some similar problem.

Strong's Ref. # 8577

Romanized tanniyn

Pronounced tan-neen'

or tanniym (Eze.29v3) {tan-neem'}; intensive from the same as HSN8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal:

KJV--dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.

Genesis 1

22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Genesis 1

22.

|1288| And blessed

|0853| them

|0430| God

|0559| saying,

|6509| Be fruitful

|7235| and be many,

|4390| and fill

|0853| -

|4325| the waters

|3220| in the oceans.

|5775| And the birds

|7235| let multiply

|0776| on the earth.

Strong's Ref. # 3220

Romanized yam

Pronounced yawm

from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south:

KJV--sea (X -faring man, [-shore]), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

Genesis 1

26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cMattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 1

26.

|0559| And said

|0430| God,

|6213| Let us make

|0120| mankind

|6754| in Our image,

|1823| according to Our likeness;

|7287| and let them rule

|1710| over fish of

|3220| the ocean

|5775| and over birds of

|8064| the heavens,

|0929| and over the cMattle

|3605| and over all

|0776| the earth

|3605| and over all

|7431| the crawlers

|7430| crawling

|5921| on

|0776| the earth.

Strong's Ref. # 6754

Romanized tselem

Pronounced tseh'-lem

from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:

KJV--image, vain shew.

Genesis 1

28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Verse 28 is another one of those areas I mentioned where people have misled others. They read "replenish" in verse 28 and just took it to mean that there had been people here before. They interpret it like God was comanding Adam and Eve to start over. The truth of the matter is the word means to FILL, not to re-fill but to fill for the first time. Those who read it wrong started also teaching based on this one word that Satan had already been cast down. Even though in Revelation 12 it states he is not cast down until the last 3.5 years of tribulation and then he knows his time is short. Yes Jesus did say He saw Satan cast down.

Luke 10

18. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

He did not say that Satan fell to the earth, but from heaven. Two ways Satan fell, first from grace with God. Second in the physical, and that does not mean he could not go back to heaven, but he fell from his place in heaven.

What was Satan's place in heaven? He was over all worship and praise, and was one of only 3 ArchAngels as well as the only anointed angel. He was cast down to Hades, Hell, and we have also read about Paul and the third heaven. The third heaven is where God is, the first is the sky we see with our eyes, the one in between is where Satan is, between us and God.

2 Corinthians 12

2. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Genesis 1

28.

|1288| And blessed

|0853| them

|0430| God,

|0559| and said

|0000| to them

|0430| God,

|6509| Be fruitful

|7235| and multiply,

|4390| and fill

|0853| -

|0776| the earth,

|3533| and it subdue.

|7287| And rule

|1710| over fish of

|3220| the ocean,

|5775| and over of birds

|8064| the heavens

|3605| and over all

|2416| animals

|7430| crawling

|5921| on

|0776| the earth.

Genesis 2

19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20. And Adam gave names to all cMattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Again here is Adam with the knowledge to dress and keep the garden. If you have ever spent anytime in any garden of any size you know that it requires a lot of knowledge.

So who taught Adam?

Genesis 2

15. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Strong's Ref. # 1847

Romanized da`ath

Pronounced dah'-ath

from HSN3045; knowledge:

KJV--cunning, [ig-]norantly, know(-ledge), [un-]awares (wittingly).

One of the biggest misconceptions about Adam and Eve was they were covered with the Glory of God and after sin came in they lost the Glory and were naked. That is no where in the Bible; actually it states in Genesis 2:25 that they were naked, knew it and were not ashamed.

So where do so many untruths come from? Someone that is considered to be knowledgeable and well known makes a statement or teaches it and others just accept it and even use it without ever making sure for themselves.

So what is the big deal if they had the Glory of God covering them or not? The problem is the truth is the truth anything else is a lie. It is not just the Glory that has been done this way, but much, much more. Due to the truth’s not being searched out, enough of the lie has gotten into different denominations and teachings to divide those who state they are of Christ.

I want to know the truth for the truth not for what someone says is the truth. So why should you read any more of what I am saying? You shouldn't. You should search it out for yourself and verify it as I did. It only took me about 12 years at 50-70 hours a week or about 37,440 hours. For those who want to learn and do not have the time there is a way to read this and learn and to verify it and that is ask God what is true and what is not. No matter who you listen too, if you are not verifying what you are hearing as truth with God then you could be led to the wrong place.

No one alive is perfect and I have known a few that I thought what he or she said was it and no matter what that was all that counted. But I found out the hard way I was wrong; even the best out there are doing what I said, they heard from someone who was well known or was supposed to know more than they say something. So then they took it as gospel and that is how even my favorites lost face with me. Over all they only did it only less than 10%, but the problem was it took me more time to find out what was right and wrong listening to them than reading and finding out for my self.

Genesis 2

25. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3

5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Strong's Ref. # 3045

Romanized yada`

Pronounced yaw-dah'

a primitive root; to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) [as follow]:

KJV--acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, [un-]awares, can[-not], certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be [ig-]norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have [knowledge], (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, Mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have [understanding], X will be, wist, wit, wot.

Strong's Ref. # 2896

Romanized towb

Pronounced tobe

from HSN2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):

KJV--beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ([-favoured]).

Strong's Ref. # 7451

Romanized ra`

Pronounced rah

from HSN7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):

KJV--adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + Mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. [Including feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.].

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