According to the modern
plate tectonics theory, there was originally only one land mass.
Even if this is true, we don't know when the continental seperation
took place. It may have happened before
Adam.
Genesis 1:1
ECB 1 In the
beginning Elohim creates the heavens and the earth.
When we say 'earth'
today, we mean all the lands and seas combined because we have
named the whole planet 'Earth'. Every language has a name for our
planet which means 'ground', 'soil' or
'land'.
Genesis 1:9-10
CLV 9 And saying is
the Elohim, "Flow together shall the water from under the heavens
to one place, and appear shall the dry land." And coming is it to
be so. And flowing together is the water under the heavens to one
place, and appearing is the dry land. 10 And calling
is the Elohim the dry part "land" [or "earth"] and the confluence
of the water He calls "seas. "And seeing is the Elohim that it is
good.
The seas biblically came to represent the
unstable pagan nations. To be in the land is was to be in Yahwey's
territory; on solid ground. Aliens had corrupted Yahwey's people in
his land, so he brought in the literal water to clean it
up.
Genesis
6:17-18 (He flooded his land)
ECB 17 And behold,
I, even I, bring a flood of waters on the earth, to ruin all flesh,
wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens; so that
all in the earth
expires. 18 But
with you I raise my covenant; and you come into
the ark - you and your sons and your woman and the women of your
sons with you.
We have one verse that
is often assumed to refer to plate techtonics; that is to assume
that the 'continental drift' took place in the days of Peleg. The
continents would have moved thousands of miles in one lifetime,
with people on them. Of course, "God can do anything", but this is
a one flimsy verse to base all of that on. God divided the land
after his people entered Canaan too, but nobody calls that event
continental drift. If Peleg was born 100 years after the flood,
then it was time for Yahwey's renewed people group to apportion
their land among themselves.
Genesis 10:25
CLV 25 And to
Eber two sons are born. The name of one is Peleg, for in his days
the land was distributed. And the name of his
brother is Joktan.
We didn't regard the
earth as a planet until three hundred years ago. All the other
planets were already named after gods and goddessess. The following
verses refer to some Earth events that should sound just as global
as the flood does to us, because the same two words translated
'all' and 'earth' in Genesis 6:17 are in these verses
too:
Yahwey's people stopped cultivating his
land and were all building a tower; in one
place.
Genesis
11:1 Tower of
Babel
KJV 1 And the
whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech.
(try 'land' here instead of
'earth', meaning Yahwey's covenant land)
This 'land' refers to
David's army.
1 Samuel 14:25
ECB 25 And all
the land comes to a forest; and there is honey on the face of the
field:
I don't think "all the earth" has ever
been in a drought. 'All the Earth' makes as much sense as 'all the
Mars'. Try 'all the land', meaning all of a certain land or people
and not all the planet.
Judges
6:37
CLV 37 lo, I am
placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the
fleece alone, and on all the
earth drought--then I have known that You do save
Israel by my hand, as You have spoken;.
Did the whole world weep
or just a whole lot of David's people?
2 Samuel 15:23
LITV 23 And
all the land was weeping with a
loud voice. And all the people were passing over. And the king was
passing over through the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed
over, toward the way of the wilderness.
All the Earth was before
Lot, but this modern translator knows that Lot chose the Jordon
Valley and Abraham moved into the land of Canaan; the promised
covenant land, so he chose to use the word 'land' here instead of
'Earth'.
Genesis 13:9
LITV 9 is not
all the land before you? Please
separate from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the
right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the
left.
The whole planet did not
dry up after the flood.
Genesis 8:7
LITV 7 And he sent
out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the
waters were dried up from off the
earth.
We just assume earth
quakes are local. When we hear of one we ask, "where?". In other
words they are earth quakes not Earth quakes; land
quakes.
1 Samuel 14:15
ECB 15 And
they tremble in the camp, in the field, and among all the people:
the standing camp and the ruiners also tremble; and the earth
quakes - and so be it, a trembling of Elohim:
Just as God carried
forward His old covenant with Noah before destroying the
unbelievers on His land, He made a new covenant with his son before
destroying the unbelievers in his corrupted old covenant
land.
2 Peter 3:6
ECB 6 through
which the cosmos then being flooded with water and
destructed:
Biblically, 'cosmos' does not mean the planet or
the universe. It means the order or the constitution. Yahwey's old
world order was represented in Jerusalem and it ended in a local
fire not a global fire.
2 Peter 3:6-7
ALT 6 through
which the then world, having been flooded by water, was
destroyed. 7 But the
present heavens and the [present] earth having been
stored up [or, reserved] for fire by His word are being
kept for [the] day of judgment and of destruction of the
godless people.
Was Moses speaking to
God's covenant land or the whole panet?
Deuteronomy 32:1
LITV 1 Give
ear, O heavens, and I will speak. And hear, O earth, the words of
my mouth.
The heavens is where God's
leaders rule from. The land is where all his people live. Moses
addressed heavens and land: leaders who ruled for God were
distincly in God's presence in order to speak God's word to his
congregation; they therefore ruled the land from the heavens. The
old rulership and old land were destroyed.
Peter was given
authority for the new covenant like Moses had in the old. He ruled
from the heavens.
Matthew 16:19 (the heavens and the land were being
changed)
ECB 19 and I give
you the keys of the sovereigndom of the heavens: and whatever you
bind on earth becomes bound in the heavens: and whatever you
release on earth becomes released in the heavens.
The modern meaning of
Earth may almost be an acceptable translation in Matthew 16:19,
since God's covenant land is anywhere on the whole planet now;
wherever his people are. The new land of God however is only in the
body of Christ; in the city of God; in the
church.
You are still in your
individual body of flesh. You are
not in the old covenant corporate body of
flesh. The corporate body of Christ is not
dependent on geneologies or flesh sacrifices or flesh location
anymore. We will die someday and lose this flesh body, yet we will
still be in the city of God.
Romans 8:9
CLV 9 Yet
you are not in flesh, but in spirit, if so be that God's
spirit is making its home in you. Now if anyone has not Christ's
spirit, this one is not His."
The Jews were told to
stay in Jerusalem until Yahwey took up his new temple residence in
them. "Do not leave".
Acts 1:4-5
YLT 4 And being
assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from
Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father,
which, saith he, `Ye did hear of me; 5 because John,
indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy
Spirit—after not many days.'
Jerusalem was destroyed
by Roman war.
Daniel 9:26
CLV 26 After the
sixty-two sevens, Messiah will be cut off, and there is no
adjudication for Him. The city and the holy place shall be
laid in ruins with the other governor's coming; then its
end is by an overflow, and till the end of the war desolations will
be decided."
Jesus told his discipes to make sure they
leave before the Roman war trapped them in old covenant Jerusalem's
last days.
Matthew
24:15-22
LITV 15 Then when
you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (the one reading,
let him understand), Dan. 11:31; 12:11 16 then let
those in Judea flee on the mountains; 17 the one
on the housetop, let him not come down to take anything out of his
house; 18 and the
one in the field, let him not turn back to take his
garment. 19 But woe
to the woman having a child in womb, and to those suckling in those
days! 20 And pray
that your flight will not be in winter nor on a
sabbath. 21 For there
will be great affliction, such as has not happened from the
beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will
be. 22 And
except those days were shortened, not any flesh would be saved. But
on account of the elect, those days will be shortened.
Yahwey's people were saved from
destruction by entering his new covenant. They saved their
individual bodies of flesh by leaving Jerusalem before the Roman
war arrived.
1 Peter
1:1-7, 2:5, 3:3, 3:18-22, 4:17, 5:11-14
SALUTATION
ECB
1:1 Petros, an
apostle of Yah Shua Messiah: To the pilgrim
diaspora throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and
Biyournia, 2 Select
according to the prognosis of Elohim the Father, in holiness of
Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yah Shua
Messiah: Charism to you and shalom be
multiplied.
THE LIVING
HOPE
3 Eulogized
be the Elohim and Father of our Adonay Yah Shua Messiah; who
according to his vast mercy rebirthed us to a
living hope through the resurrection of Yah Shua Messiah from the
dead: 4 to an
inheritance incorruptible and unpolluted and amaranthine, guarded
in the heavens to you 5 who are
garrisoned in the dynamis of Elohim through trust to salvation -
prepared to be unveiled in the final season: 6 wherein you
jump for joy: though now for a little, if necessary, you are
sorrowed in divers testings 7 that the
proofing of your trust: being much more precious than gold that
destructs: though being proofed through fire be found unto halal
and honor and glory at the apocalypse of Yah Shua Messiah:
2:5 and
you yourselves, as living stones, are built a spiritual
house - a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices,
well-received to Elohim through Yah Shua Messiah. 3:3 whose
cosmos is not outward - of braiding the hair and of wrapping around
of gold or of enduing garments: 3:18 because
Messiah also suffered for sins once - the just for the unjust, to
bring us to Elohim, indeed deathified in flesh and
enlivened in the Spirit: 19 wherein
he also went and preached to the spirits in the
guardhouse 20 - who
sometime distrusted when once the patience of Elohim awaited in the
days of Noach while the ark was a preparing, wherein few - that is
eight souls were saved through water: 21 to which
baptism, the antitype, now also saves us - not the laying aside of
filth of flesh but the question of a good conscience to Elohim
through the resurrection of Yah Shua
Messiah: 22 who went
into the heavens - at the right of Elohim angels and authorities
and dynamis being subjugated to him. 4:17 Because
this is the season that judgment must begin from the house of El:
and if first from us, what is the completion/shalom of them who
distrust the evangelism of Elohim? 5:11 To
him be glory and dominion to the eons of the eons.
Amen.
FINAL
SALUTES
12 Through
Silvanus your trustworthy brother, I reckon that I scribed through
few words, beseeching and witnessing that this wherein you stand is
the true charism of Elohim. 13 The
co-select in Babel and Markos my son salute you. 14 Salute
one another with a kiss of love. Shalom with all in Messiah
Yah Shua. Amen.