Section 23

Creation History

Barnabas states the second of the Three-Fold Witness was to be able to explain Creation history. Many of the ancient church fathers taught that in the end times when the apostasy of the church was complete, the church itself would reject the teaching of Creation by saying Genesis was a myth. The apostate church would begin to teach the Pagan concept of evolution. The apostle Peter basically said the same thing,

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” 2 Peter 3:4-7 KJV

Notice Peter said the end time scoffing church would be willingly ignorant of the Flood and the Second Coming prophecies. They do this by denying the inspiration of Scripture, saying the historical information recorded in Genesis is a myth; in which case, there was no Fall, and we do not need a savior. Today the forming apostate church rejects biblical creationism for the teaching of evolution. Most of these churches do not believe in premillennialism either, just as the Apostle Peter predicted!

In Barnabas’ eyes, a mature Christian should not only be able to lead someone to the Lord Jesus and disciple them, but will also teach all new converts the facts of Creation and to guard against the lie of evolution.

To this end, many Christians have written wonderful books on Creation Science. These show numerous scientific proofs that the earth can’t be more than a few thousand years old and numerous scientific reasons why one life form cannot evolve into a completely new kind of life form.

There are also a few books on Creation History which show numerous historical documents from around the world confirming that all the nations originally recorded the true biblical knowledge of their origins.

The Bible records enough historical dates that we can know God created the earth and all life in it no earlier than about 4,000 BC. Therefore, life did not evolve and there is no such thing as macroevolution.

The following chart was adapted from Ancient Post-Flood History. The number under the date is simply the years from Creation. It details not only the dates from the Bible passages, but also the Jewish historical books of Jasher and the Seder Olam. All of these books give the same dates.

One can clearly see the number of years from Creation to the destruction of Solomon’s Temple is exactly 3,338 years, no more or less. There are so many historical documents, that virtually all modern historians place the destruction of King Solomon’s Temple at 586 or 587 BC.

Event

Bible

Jasher

Seder

Date

Adam created

Gen. 5:1

1:1

Seth born

Gen. 5:3

2:1

130

Enos born

Gen. 5:6

2:2

235

Cainan born

Gen. 5:9

2:10

325

Mahalaleel born

Gen. 5:12

2:15

395

Jared born

Gen. 5:15

2:37

460

Enoch born

Gen. 5:18

2:37

622

Methuselah born

Gen. 5:21

3:1

687

Lamech born

Gen. 5:25

3:13

874

Noah born

Gen. 5:28,29

4:1

1056

Flood occurred

Gen. 7:11

6:1

1656

Arphaxad born

Gen. 11:10