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Alison Marshall BSc.; Dip. Hort. Sc

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and to my good friend Don Stewart, whose company

The seed of this came out of our last session at The Shelter.

Thanks Don.

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Dedicated to my Provider and Protector, my Creator and Father, GOD.

"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse," Romans 1:20.

I enjoy, as it invites many interesting and exciting chats.

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Published 8 Jan 2012.Revised 22 Oct 2012

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IntroductionNo one person has all the answers, least of all me!

We were not personally there at the beginning of matter, time, the universe, the dimensions, etc.

The ‘new’ thing in scientific circles is ‘intelligent design’. I won’t go into it here, but a very interesting DVD on the matter is ‘Expelled’ by Ben Stein. Still, people are very busy resisting the possibility of acknowledging ‘GOD’ as the intelligence behind the design.

GOD has given us His Word so we can know the essentials. He has caused it to be written in terms we can understand, and even then it is sometimes hard to grasp. As � Corinthians ��:�� says, "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I am known."

The Bible is the only ancient writing where the author is still alive, available, ready and willing to answer all genuine questions. There is a requirement. "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to GOD must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." Hebrews 11:6. If things seem confusing, put it to the LORD and leave it there. He will answer you in His time. (God’s phone number if you are interested: Jeremiah ��:� "Call unto Me and I will answer you,"). You will find, if you exercise patience, that Scripture does not contradict itself. We live in an “ínstant’’ generation - I want now; I deserve; I have no time to wait. God’s Word so often states: "They that wait on the LORD." I could quote verse after verse but I’m sure you get the point.

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My purpose here is not to nit-pick at every word in Scripture, but to show that it is valid, as a trained science graduate with work experience, to believe GOD. He created us and the world we live in, and He has every right to tell us what He requires of us.

It's not my ability, but my availability

The ‘new’ discoveries I read about in scientific journals just underline what God has already revealed to us in His Word. Science in many ways is completely neutral. It’s the way the individual looks at the results that determines what he or she portrays to the world at large as being “proof’’ for the theories they hold dear. Also, Scripture can always be taken out of context and made to fit any convenient theory or belief that you may want to aspire to. Even Satan did this when testing Yeshua, but Yeshua knew how to use the whole council of God and the truth of Scripture to counter Satan’s misuse of the written Word. Beware, Satan still uses the same technique with us today, through those we listen to and even our own minds, if we are not alert. He is an expert at quoting Scripture out of context, and it sounds so right. Check everything out yourself in Scripture with a prayerful and open heart.

It's not my responsibility, but my response to His ability

I have been asked more than once about my total belief in the literal written Word of God. How can I as a scientist believe such things now that I have been trained and am qualified in the real truth? My answer is that science proves more of the Bible than it supposedly disproves. Like Ken Ham, another creationist says: "after the flood what do you expect to find? Millions of fossils!" Many of the ‘proofs’ of evolution have now been exposed as hoaxes. Even back in my university days it was happening, but the text books still remain unchanged in the light of such revelation. My evolution professor kept telling us that we needed as much faith, if not more, to believe in evolution, as it takes to believe in creation. He organized an open debate at the university with Dr Gish, a well known creationist. You can imagine the sparks that flew that day!

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It all started outside of time as we know it.

Heylel became jealous and proud and wanted to be like GOD himself but separate from GOD. In doing so, he fell short of the glory of GOD that he had been living in.

But later, while in the Garden that GOD created, he chose to serve himself instead of his Creator:

By the multitude of your merchandise (cheap market place knockoffs, second-rate stuff) they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy

...until iniquity (wickedness) was found in you. Ezekiel 28:1

You seal the measure (there is nothing higher), full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your tabrets (of a musical nature) and of your pipes in you was prepared for you on the day you were created. You were the anointed cherub that covers, and I put you in the holy height of God: you walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Ezekiel 28: 12-15

The one who makes Himself known to us as GOD, the great I AM (He who causes to be), lived in all His glory (power, unity and oneness) with the wondrous beings He had created. The most magnificent of these beings is referred to, in Hebrew, as ‘Heylel’, (related to praise) and he was perfect in every way. We can see how GOD described him:

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In other words, he was thrown out, separated from GOD.

Heylel (before he fell) and all the angels were watching what GOD was doing.

you, Oh covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. Ezekiel 28:16-17

How you are fallen from heaven, oh Heylel, son of the morning! (created by GOD) How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exult my throne above the stars of GOD; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High." Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. Isaiah 14:12-14

So here he was, the peak, the most perfect and magnificent of all GOD’s created beings, and he failed in his calling, lost his position and was cast out from the highest place of all created beings. He appeared so wonderful that he even convinced some of GOD’s angels to follow him as their leader, or it could be that they had been the angels serving under him when he held his high position. Heylel is now known as the Devil or Satan (even now, he can still deceptively appear as an angel of light), and his angels are called demons.

GOD began to create a round ball of matter which He surrounded with Himself. The Bible describes it in Genesis:

The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of GOD was hovering (brooding like a mother bird), over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1:2

There was only darkness and nothing was formed, except there was water. There is no mention of how water got there.

Water is an interesting substance. It is made up of the elements of Oxygen and Hydrogen (two Hydrogen molecules and one Oxygen molecule; H²O). It can exist in three different forms: ice, water, and steam (solid, liquid, gas), and yet it never changes its substance; it always remains H²O. Could it be that GOD has given

us an illustration, that we can understand, of how He is one substance (He never changes) but can be in three different forms: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Also, without water there is no life; it is absolutely essential for all the key systems of life. Circulation, digestion, respiration and reproduction are all dependent on liquid water. The Scriptures state in John 6:63 that "it is the Spirit who gives life", and the first reference to GOD’s Spirit is in connection with water: Genesis �:�.

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Now began the six days of creation with the seventh day of rest after all was finished.

Then GOD Himself made light. He being The Word of GOD, made the light.

And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:3-5

So maybe there was just a water and/or ‘ice-sphere’ or dense canopy of water vapor? This changed drastically as we will see in “GOD’s Global Reset” (the next book in this series).

And GOD said “let there be light” and there was light.

Really, what is darkness but the absence of light? o darkness can’t ever overrule light; when light comes, there is no more darkness.

Then GOD said “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters” And GOD made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

In physics, under controlled conditions, it has been shown that light is produced by vibrating the correct pitch over water molecules. Also, some scientists now say that everything was created by the energised frequency of sound. What is speech, but vibrating sound waves?

So He created an expanse or gap between water above the gap and water below the gap And GOD called the firmament (this gap) Heaven. In Hebrew the word for Heaven is ‘Shamayim’, (sham=there is; mayim=water). Today we call this gap the atmosphere, which contains measurable layers that we call troposphere, stratosphere, (which has the ozone layer), mesosphere, and thermosphere. Up in the troposphere, there are clouds which are part of the evaporation/precipitation cycle which didn’t happen at the beginning. As we see later, there was no rain, but a mist came up to water the earth, (Genesis �:�-6.)

And the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis 1:6-8

And GOD saw the light, that it was good: and GOD divided (separated) the light from the darkness.

And GOD called the light ‘Day’, and the darkness 'Night' And so time came into existence with the passing of a period of darkness and light:

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...that before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown (for the LORD

GOD had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground), a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Then GOD said “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to it’s kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”: and it was so.

Then GOD said “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And GOD called the dry land 'Earth', and the gathering of the waters He called 'Seas’. And GOD saw that is was good. Genesis 1:9-10

The study of Plate Tectonics show that there was most likely one landmass, which has been called Pangaea. This later divided to two major land masses: Laurasia and Gondwanaland which broke up and ‘drifted’ to the continental positions we know today. This ‘breakup’ we will look at in “GOD’s Global Reset”.

Now we see in Genesis 2:5-6:

All plants grow with their roots in the soil. They use their roots to take up nutrients from the soil and as an anchor, so they don’t move around on their own. Think about what else plants need to make food: sunlight. But there isn’t any yet! Remember, plants are the only living things that can create food from the nutrients they take in using the energy they get from the sun, in a process called ‘photosynthesis’. Plants are the beginning of the food chain.

And GOD saw that it was good. So another evening and morning was the third day. Genesis 1:11-13

Then GOD said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth’, and it was so. And GOD made a greater light (the sun) to rule the day, and a lesser light (the moon) to rule the night, and the stars. He set them in the heavens to give light to the earth, rule over the night and the day, and to divide the light from the darkness.

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We see that the sun, moon, and stars were made after the earth and had 6 purposes:to divide day from nightto be for signsto mark the seasonsto mark the daysto mark the yearsto give light on the earth

Some astronomers who study the stars say that they have found that older stars look like they are dying and that new stars are being born, but there are many problems with this. Why do some “old’’ stars still have gas discs around them when this supposedly is a sign of a new star forming? What we see out there lines up with the Word of GOD rather than many unproven theories.

� Corinthians ��:�� states that one star differs from another star in glory. GOD made each one different, and He set them in constellations and galaxies to be signs. We can navigate around the globe using the set positions of the stars.

One of the purposes of the created universe is to reveal the majesty of its Creator.

The process used in all the stars (sun’s) is Fusion. We can see extremely massive amounts of energy produced from the process of individual nuclei joining together as one nucleus. They remain individuals but consistently give to one another by sharing electrons to remain one nucleus. They produce or create new energy, life and light. Fission, on the other hand, is produced by splitting apart the nuclei to become separate; it produces energy, but a destructive, decaying energy. Fusion and Fission can be viewed as another picture of GOD that shows us who He is and His creative power, and how Satan has no power of his own, but breaks apart creative power to produce decay and death.

Then GOD said, “Let the waters abound with abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So GOD created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to it’s kind. And GOD saw that it was good. And GOD blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth.”

The heavens declare the glory of GOD; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalms 19:1

And GOD saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1:14-19

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We see that everything was created according to its kind (Genus and species), and that they mated and produced babies of their same kind. Sparrows had baby sparrows, eagles had baby eagles, whales had baby whales, sharks had baby sharks, clown fish (Nemo) had baby clown fish etc. Every different type of fish and bird GOD created from the beginning; they didn’t slowly

Also we can see mutations within a species showing up, but these usually die off and do not start a whole new kind of fish or bird. It is man that takes advantage of the mutations to bring out different features, such as colors

change from one thing to another. They have adapted to different situations and we can still see that happening today, as in migration, natural selection, etc. Some birds migrate with the seasons in order to stay in warmer places during the winter. Sea mammals and fish migrate to follow their food or find a quiet place to mate and have their young. Many species have adapted to specific environments and conditions.

For example, the peppered moth. Before industrialized England, the gray version of the moth blended with its environment, so wasn’t seen and eaten by birds. After pollution turned the tree trunks black, then it was the black version of the moth that wasn’t seen and eaten. The individuals don’t adapt, but the population does over time. This is also known as ‘natural selection’, and still occurs today. It is not evolution.

in budgies, and keeps mating mutations with mutations to keep such differences going in a population.

So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Genesis 1:20-23

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abilities and so on. I’m sure He had fun thinking about which colors to put in the birds, fish and animals; about how they should behave; where they should live and how they should relate to each other. For example: bees go around collecting pollen to make honey but the flowers they visit depend on the bees to pollinate them.

Then GOD said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And GOD made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And GOD saw that it was good. Genesis 1:24-25

Again, it is restated time after time, that each creature was created as it was and didn’t slowly become what it is! GOD designed every creature according to species with colors, characteristics,

As mankind began to notice the effect plant chemicals had on animals that mated and the babies that resulted, they began to fiddle! We see a good account of this with Jacob when looking after Laban’s flocks in Genesis �0:��-��. Also how characteristics of parents seem to skip a generation, etc, (Mendel’s law), and later it was discovered how (DNA/RNA).

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Man has mated a female horse and a male donkey (two different species with different numbers of genes) to get a mule

You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind...

All our varieties of dogs come from man’s intervention but this also results in weaknesses and problems, (e.g. pedigree dogs usually have associatedgenetic defects: ingrown eyelashes in Boxers, weak hips in Irish Setters, breathing problems in dogs with squashed faces, etc.)

We are doing the same thing with plants as well. It destroys His design and bypasses any safeguards that He built in so that horrible things wouldn’t happen, like weaknesses, deformities, and lack of vital nutrients, that cause health problems. Because of sin, death, and decay entering the world since the beginning of creation, living things are devolving rather than evolving!

which is usually sterile and therefore can’t reproduce itself. We have even gone further today and are ‘mating’ species that cannot possibly mate or combine in nature. This is called Genetic Engineering. For example, scientists put mouse genes into fish eggs, splicing the mouse gene into the fish gene, so the fish development is influenced by mouse genes to grow quickly, but the adult is usually sterile. This is expressly forbidden by GOD in Leviticus �9:�9.

Then GOD said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creep on the earth.” So GOD created man in His own image; in the image of GOD He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:26-27

Up until now GOD has spoken a command: "Let there be...", "Let the waters...", "Let the earth...", and it happened just as He said. Now He speaks out His plan but how does it happen?

Isn’t it interesting that GOD first created the home (environment) in the first four days, and then He created the living creatures to dwell there? You first have to have a place tolive and a means of surviving and growing (food to eat and shelter) before you can existand dwell there!

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 being. Genesis 2:7

Here we have the first mouth to nose resuscitation; except it is the first ‘suscitation’! This makes us (human mud-babies) different from all other created beings.

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Then the LORD GOD took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD GOD commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree in the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:15-17

So GOD gave Adam a home and a job to do. GOD also commanded - not just ‘told’ - Adam that he could eat from any tree in the garden but NOT the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And the LORD GOD caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD GOD had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the

What does “created in His own image” ‘look’ like? It means that when Adam walked by, the rest of creation responded as if it were GOD walking by. Have you ever seen a person from a distance who walked and moved like your friend and you ran up and greeted them, but when they turned around and you saw their face up close, it wasn’t them? Their body language and looks were almost identical to your friend’s. So I think it would have been with creation at first. The animals would have thought GOD was coming and when the man approached closer they would see, “Oh, it’s Adam”. God gave Adam the authority to rule over the earth and the created things on/in it. In fact, GOD allowed Adam to name all the created things; whatever name he gave them, that was it! Names have meaning and because GOD had created Adam in His image, it meant Adam had insight (knowledge with understand) and wisdom. Adam was an assignment to name the creatures GOD had made. In other words, GOD made Adam a co-worker with Him in creation by letting him define the nature or character of every creature He had made.

Out of the ground the LORD GOD formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was it’s name. Genesis 2:19

The LORD GOD planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the LORD GOD made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 2:8-9

But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. Genesis 2:20

Adam was alone, the only mud-baby, and there was no other creature that he could fully relate to. No one to talk to, to share experiences with, to help - no “us’’.

And the LORD GOD said “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Genesis 2:18

So GOD put him into a deep sleep and took a rib out of his side and formed another mud-baby around the rib. Then He brought this mud-baby to Adam, and what was Adam’s response? “Wow; Man!”

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After all this GOD took a break and rested.

*“99 out of 100 molecules in the body are water molecules. However, because water is much smaller and lighter than other molecules like proteins and fats, water contributes to about 60% of the total weight of a person,” according to “Human Physiology” by van der Sherman & Luciano - 2nd edition . Published by McGraw Hill 1975.

“The average amount of water by weight in a human female is about 52%, but the average amount by weight in a human male is about 63%”, according to David Shier, Jackie Butler & Ricky Levy. Published by McGraw Hill 1999.

man. And Adam said: “this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Genesis 2:21-23

GOD created mankind, male and female, with the ability to produce offspring of their own kind - more little mud-babies with the image of GOD built in.

So GOD created man in His own image; in the image of GOD He created him; male and female He created them. Then GOD blessed them, and GOD said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And GOD said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. Then GOD saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis 1:27-31

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them were finished. And on the seventh day GOD ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then GOD blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which GOD had created and made. Genesis 2:1-3

This day is important. GOD wants us to rest. A day of R & R (Rest and Rest-oration!) Yeshua (Jesus) says in Mark �:��-��:

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.

It is to be a time-out from work (to cease from your labour, your own efforts, your own striving, your own activities) to rest and spend time with GOD and depend on His completed work. To come with others, worship Him, and enter into His rest together.

Imagine, after watching GOD create other matter and creatures for six days, Heylel sees GOD stoop down in the dirt of the ground. So he goes to have a closer look and what does he see? GOD is making a creature out of already created matter: dirt. He is hand-forming a man (or as we are 60% water*: a mud-baby), and then He stoops over the creature and breaths His own breath into it and it comes alive. Wooo! What just happened? GOD just gave the lowest of creation (made from the dust of the earth; already created matter) His own breath: GOD just made a creature in His OWN IMAGE: GOD just gave this being what

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He took what GOD had said and twisted it around so it sounded correct, but a seed of doubt had been added to GOD’s command. He uses the same technique today.

What was Eve’s response? She repeated what Adam had told her about the trees but added her own little bit.

Heylel, the highest, most magnificent of all created beings wanted and felt he deserved - to be like GOD.

NO WAY !

Now we can maybe understand why Satan (the deceiver, previously called Heylel, wrongly translated as ‘Lucifer’), even though he is vanquished (conquered) and totally defeated, is out to try and steal, kill, and destroy every mud-baby he can before he is thrown into the fiery pit.

And he said to the woman, “Has GOD indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” Genesis 3:1

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, GOD has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” Genesis 3:2-3

Oh boy! Heylel/Satan had her now. She was adlibbing and not going back to check out exactly what GOD had said. So he continued to lead her on.

Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. (this is out-right calling GOD a liar) For GOD knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like GOD, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her. And he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. Genesis 3:4-7

As Heylel/Satan tried to convince Eve that GOD was holding back something good from her, she began to look and think about the tree and started to desire it.

While Adam and the woman that he called ‘Eve’ were exploring the new world, Heylel/Satan didn’t just stand by and keep watching; he was up to no good. He formulated a plan to trick the mud-babies. Adam had told Eve everything that GOD had said and done. Heylel/Satan saw that her reaction to things was different from that of Adam. Eve was more relational, emotional, and intuitive, whereas Adam was more logical, factual, and analytical. Heylel/Satan realized that he could possibly use the way Eve responded to things to trick her to think like him. So he came in all his beauty, in the form of a colorfull snake that would attract and interest her. He spoke to her (maybe like in Narnia where the animals can talk, but more likely as he does today, with thoughts in our minds).

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Then started “ the blame game” that still goes on today.

Heylel/Satan had managed to entice Eve to ignore the fact that she was already created in GOD’s image and begin to think like Satan himself (I want it for me, myself and I!). The next thing that happened is that Eve chose to disobey GOD’s word and follow Heylel/Satan’s reasoning.

She took a fruit from the tree and ate from it. Then she gave Adam some to eat. She most likely repeated all of Heylel/Satan’s reasoning to Adam or he could have been standing there next to her all the time and heard it all and not interjected! Bottom line - he was also carried away in desire for the fruit. He chose to disobey GOD and eat. He was naturally “hot-wired” to his wife (she was his helpmate, part of him, a gift from GOD) yet he did not use his GOD-given ability to acknowledge his emotions, without letting them control him. He could have, and should have, taken the thought captive and checked it out with GOD first. The end result was that they chose to disobey and then realized they were naked, and so they hid from GOD when they heard Him coming.

What does this “naked” mean? They had always been without clothes; what changed? GOD had said they would die if they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They had been covered with the glory of GOD: with Him, in Him. When they chose to disobey they were cut off from that unity of relationship and found themselves outside and uncovered. They were ashamed and tried by their own efforts to cover their nakedness by sewing fig leaves together as clothing.

Heylel/Satan held a “yahoo” party (victory celebration). Oh how quickly and completely had he won. Now, because man had chosen to follow his suggestion and thinking and actually disobeyed GOD, Satan had legally obtained the authority GOD had given man over all the earth. Satan now had just acquired his own little kingdom to rule and dominate. Life couldn’t get any better!

Nevertheless, GOD knew this would happen, so He had a plan already in place to totally defeat Satan once and for all. GOD just didn’t walk away, but came to talk to Adam and Eve. Satan quite happily went to gloat over his victory and listen in to what GOD had to say to man. GOD knew what had happened, but He questioned them in order to get them to admit to their disobedience.

Then the LORD GOD called to Adam and said to him, ”Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Genesis 3:9-11

Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the LORD GOD said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” Genesis 3:12-13

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To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Then the LORD GOD said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and

Lo and behold, Satan finds that he is also included in the consequences. His victory may not be as total as he thought. First, at the moment he acted on his own temptation of being like GOD by in turn tempting Eve, he sinned, lost his position in heaven and now maybe he started suspecting something more was afoot when GOD proclaimed his punishment.

So the LORD GOD said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your seed (those who will follow you) and her Seed (The Messiah and those that will follow Him); He shall bruise your head (destroy you) and you shall bruise His heel (try to destroy Him).” Genesis 2:1-3

GOD then told Eve and Adam the consequences they will have to endure because of their disobedience.

Then to Adam, He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you saying, ‘You shall not eat of it.’: Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:16-19

Our own efforts to get back into relationship with GOD are inadequate, like sewing figs leaves together. It takes the death of an innocent life on our behalf to restore us to GOD.

In order that mankind not be stuck forever in his fallen state, GOD threw them out toward the east of the garden and set cherubim to guard the way back.

So GOD started implementing His plan to restore mankind back to GOD. He took an innocent animal and killed it – and put the skin of the animal on Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness – instead of the them dying for their own sin. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD GOD made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21. This showed the mud-babies that there was a life exchange. An innocent life died instead of them and they now had the innocent’s life, symbolized by living in the skin of the one who died in their place. Later on we see GOD telling us that the life is in the blood. (Genesis 9:�; Deuteronomy ��:�6&��).

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You can read about the whole incident in Genesis �:�-��.

Satan is so jealous that he is on a mission to rob GOD of every human being that he can. Now Satan has to spend his time watching GOD’s every move to see what His plan is and to keep enticing or tempting all these mud-babies away from seeking GOD. Satan still comes and goes with the other angels into GOD’s presence as we see in Job �:6-� and Job �:�-�.

This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that GOD is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive

eat, and live forever”- therefore the LORD GOD sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:22-24

Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Abel understood this principle of life exchange and sacrificed a pure lamb. Cain tried to present an offering from his own effort and sweat. Cain could have asked for or bought a lamb from Abel to sacrifice on his own behalf, but chose instead to follow Satan’s jealous thinking all the way through to murder. Notice what GOD says to Cain in Genesis 4:7:

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

Now there was a day when the sons of GOD (angels created by GOD) came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”

...for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our GOD day and night,... Revelation 12:10

Satan is also known as the accuser of the brethren because he roams the earth and comes to GOD to accuse those humans who chose to seek restored relationship with GOD and follow His ways, the same as he did to Job.

Satan accuses those who believe in the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) both before GOD and to the believers themselves. Those who believe in Yeshua and accept His sacrifice on their behalf and confess their sins to Him, are cleansed from their sin; that is, made pure in the sight of GOD. Satan accuses the believers themselves and tries to load them down with guilt because of the choices they make every day. We live in a fallen world and can still be enticed by our own desires and choose to sin. But there is a daily cleansing:

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And as we grow in the LORD we will sin less and less, as His desires will become our desires, and we will become more and more like Him. (This will be covered in more depth in the �th book of this series, “GOD’s Ground-plan for Salvation”).

Towards the end of the age, i.e. the time of this earth’s existence, Satan and his followers will be thrown out of the heavens, and finally thrown into the lake of fire forever.

If you hear GOD’s voice, today is the day of salvation – don’t wait. The next hour or day maybe too late.

ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:5-9

And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12:7-9

I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may see you. You have defiled (made flthy) your temples by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your merchandise (second-rate market stuff); therefore I will bring forth a fire from inside you, it will eat you up, and I will bring you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those that see you. All they that know you from among the people will be astonished at you: you will be a terror, and you will never be any more. Ezekiel 28:17-20

The inhabitants of the earth whose have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast...Revelation 17:8

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,...will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Revelation 20:10

As we have seen here in “GOD’s Mud-Baby”, mankind (humans) came from the same earth (dirt) that the animals came from. So it’s not surprising at all that the bodies of humans and animals are made from the same elements as the plants which they eat. Plants and living creatures both came from the earth and use the same minerals. Everything was designed by GOD to co-exist. Man has a body built from the elements of the earth so he can live on earth, like a tent to live in, a biological machine. When the body dies, it will decay back into the elements from which it was made. The spirit (breath) will return to GOD who gave it, and the living being (soul) that GOD created will go to where it decided to go, by default or deliberate choice. The choice is to either accept GOD’s way and be forever united in Him or don’t accept GOD’s way and be forever separated from Him. There are no other choices. Default is simply not making a decision. If you are not for GOD you are automatically against Him (Matthew ��:��-�0)

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. Matt.12:30

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But GOD demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Follow along and see how GOD saves the human race from total annihilation, reduces their life-span, restricts their ability to communicate and scatters them around the globe; in the �nd book in the series “GOD’s Global Reset”.

For He says: (“In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Isaiah 49:8.) Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:2

Unbelief is doubting GOD’s word; even to the extent of believing it’s true but doesn’t apply to you personally. For example, GOD’s word says:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

For years I repeated this and believed it was GOD’s word, and therefore true, but I also kept saying to myself that it didn’t work for me. One day I realized that I was doubting GOD’s word, as it applied to my life, so I was living in unbelief. I wasn’t progressing in my life, but instead I was stuck in a state of constant depression. I did what GOD’s word says:

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

I call heaven and earth as witness today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live. Deuteronomy 30:19

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says (Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in the day of testing in the wilderness: when your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err (sin) in their heart, and they have not known My ways: unto whom I swore in My wrath (anger) that they should not enter into My rest. Psalms 95:7-11) Take heed, brethren, least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the Living GOD. Hebrews 3:7-12

‘He’ is The Messiah Yeshua (Jesus The Christ) who has already paid the price for our sins. He is the innocent life that died instead of us and gave His life so that we may live. GOD’s word shows us how much He loves His mud-babies and wants to be in intimate relationship with them, and to do so, He dealt with the sin Himself. He came in the form of a mud-baby, lived a pure life, and died on our behalf.

After personally paying for the entire debt, or cost of sin, for all mankind, GOD still leaves the choice - to accept or reject this payment - up to us. GOD’s call to all of us is:

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References:All scripture is included in the text (New King James version) and other references are listed here in order according to the subject occurring in the text.

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I HIGHLY recommend these and the other resources that Brad has on his website for all aspiring young (and not so young) Bible scholars and scientists. Scott, Bradford. "In my flesh I see God." The Area 51 series, Part 1 (DVD)Scott, Bradford. "God is smarter than we are." The Area 51 series, Part 2 (DVD) Wildbranch Ministries. 2009? accessed Dec 2009?. <www.wildbranch.org>

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Hung, Christina. "Report on Sonoluminescence Research." Commack High School. accessed Dec.2009? <http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~christina/report/>Alam, Imtiaz. "Sonoluminescence: Light is Created by Sound Wave." The Tech Journal. June 6 2010. accessed July 2010. <http://thetechjournal.com/science/sonoluminescence-light-is-created-by-sound-wave.xhtml>

Fix, Richard. "The Genesis Creation: Genesis 1:1, What and When was the Beginning." Israel of God. November �00�. accessed 21 Feb. 2010. <www.israelofgod.org/genesis.htm>

Petersen, Dennis R. "Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation." �1987��Stein, Ben. Expelled. Universal City, CA: Vivendi Entertainment (DVD), October 21, 2008

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Unknown, "Nuclear Physics/Nuclear Fusion and Fission" Wikibooks. (updated 27 July 2012) <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nuclear_Physics/Nuclear_Fusion_and_Fission>Unknown. "Nuclear Fusion" Wikipedia. (updated 12 Oct. 2012) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion>Unknown. "Nuclear Fission" Wikipedia. (updated 15 Oct. 2012) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission>

Lisle, Jason Ph.D. "The Stars of Heaven Confirm Biblical Creation" Answers in Genesis. September 18, 2007. accessed June 2011. <http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n4/stars-of-the-heaven-confirm>

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Conrad, Jim. "Bird Migration" The Backyard Nature Website. (updated 10 Dec. 2011) <http://www.backyardnature.net/birdmgrt.htm>

Unknown. "Honey Bees are important pollenators" Arizona education website. (info. sheet 10). <http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf10.html>

Mumford, Eric. "The Fusion of the Trinity" (CD) Lifechangers. October �0�0. <http://www.lifechangers.org>

Unknown, Neil. "Budgie breeding for colour" Budgie-Parakeet Website. <www.budgie-parakeets.com/budgiebreedingforcolour.html>

Unknown. "Whale Migration" Whale Route Website. <http://www.whaleroute.com/migrate/>Unknown "The Peppered Moth" The Truth in Science Website. <http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/tis2/index.php/component/content/article/127.html>Google search "Peppered Moth" Google. accessed Oct 2012. <http://www.google.co.il/webhp#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=The+Peppered+moth&oq=The+Peppered+moth&gs_l=hp.12...11166.17779.0.20342.17.15.0.0.0.0.1428.5839.6-1j4.5.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.Xx78KxghXAY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=92e85b23794f2de7&bpcl=35440803&biw=1226&bih=774>

Migration, Color, and other relationships in the Natural World

NASA. "Stars being born and Dying" NASA. accessed June 2011 <http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/heapow/archive/stars/berk87.xmm.html>

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Genetics

Unknown. "DNA." Wikipedia. (updated 19 Oct. 2012) accessed July 2010 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA>Unknown. "Genetic Home Reference: What is DNA." US National Library of Medicine. updated 15 Oct 2012. accessed July 2010 <http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/dna>Fredholm, Lotta. "The Discovery of the Molecular Structure of DNA-The Double Helix." Nobelprize.org. 30 Sept. 2003. (updated 20 Oct 2012) accessed July 2010 <http://nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/dna_double_helix/readmore.html>Pray, Leslie A. "Discovery of DNA Structure and Function : Watson and Crick." Nature Education 1(1). 2008. accessed July 2010 <www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of=dna-structure-and-function-watson-397>Unknown. "Pedigree Dogs Exposed." Top Documentary Films. accessed July 2010. <http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/pedigree-dogs-exposed/>Asher L, Diesel G, Summers JF, McGreevy PD, Collins L.M. " Inherited defects in pedigree dogs. Part 1: disorders related to breed standards." PubMed.gov Vet J. 2009 Dec: 182(3):402-11. accessed July 2010.<www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19836981>Mules and HinniesUnknown. "What is a Mule?" American Donkey and Mule Society. 2001 (2008) accessed July 2010.<www.lovelongears.com/about_mules.html>

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Additional Interesting References

Additional Creation/Science ReferencesI have been reading up on String theory and will add this at the beginning of “GOD’s Global Reset” so that those who have the first printing of this book won’t miss this section that does belong with creation. I will also put the references here so those who want to start researching can do so.

Greene, Brian. "The Elegant Universe." 1999, Vintage BooksGreene, Brian. "The Fabric of the Cosmos." 2004, Vintage BooksGreene, Brian. "The Hidden Reality." 2011, Vintage Books

Futerman, Dr Antony H. "Science and Faith-Is There a Conflict?" 2011www.kereahvah.org

Johnson, Bill. "Dreaming with God." �006, Destiny Image Publisherswww.destinyimage.com

GOD of Wonders �00�, DVD on exploring the wonders of creation, human conscience and the Glory of GOD.www.eternal-productions.org

Greene, Brian. “Superstrings: Universal Chorus of Violins” June 1992. Science magazinehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html

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Acknowledgments

About the author:I grew up in a Bible (both Torah and Brit Hadashah) believing home with both my Mum and Dad living as examples of those who put their trust and faith in the completed work of The Messiah (The Christ) on the cross. Dad always told us that God has no grandchildren, only children, and you cannot coast on your parents belief. You must search out, choose and believe on the Name of the LORD Yeshua for yourself.

My thanks to:Don Stewart for the inspiration,Ted Walker for the encouragement to write this book,Diana Short, Sarah Brown, Mikhal Ben Shaprut, Linda Walker, Judy Pex, Jenna Q, and Polina for their hours of close attention in editing, and especially to Seth Postell for his Biblical input,Anne and Selwyn Stevens for their knowledge and help in layout and printing.

I currently work as one of the tour guides at a life-sized reconstruction of the Tabernacle as described in the book of Exodus. This model is presently located inside Timna Park, Arava valley, Israel. (for more information go to www.berean-to-berean.com)

I have since then, had close to �� years research experience in Horticulture and Fisheries both in New Zealand and Israel.

My education background is in science where I completed a BSc in Botany and Zoology in �9�� at Victoria University, and a Post Grad. Dip. Hort Sci. at Massey University in �9�0. Both in New Zealand.

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Authors NoteThis book was first written from the point of view that Heylel had already fallen and had been thrown out of heaven before the creation of Earth. He and his followers then watched what GOD was up to. GOD was creating a ball of stuff in the middle of space, so Satan moved in for a closer look…Then my friend Seth Postell pointed out that Heylel was in the Eden of GOD, and GOD called everything in the garden “very good” at the end of the sixth day, Genesis 1:31. So if Heylel had already fallen, then everything in the garden would not have been ‘very good’. So I rewrote the book on the basis that Heylel was tempted in his thoughts and sinned the moment he put his thoughts into action. That is the moment he ‘fell’. Scripture states that Christ was tempted in everyway we are yet without sin, Hebrews 4:15. He never acted on the temptation and therefore never sinned.Whether Heylel fell before or after creation is not the issue here. It doesn’t change history, the outcome today is the same. Heylel sinned, Adam and Eve sinned, all our ancestors sinned and so also we ‘have sinned and fall short of the Glory of GOD’, Romans 3:23.On the issue of how Heylel appeared to Eve in the garden – the Hebrew text definitely says snake, ‘nachash’. Obviously he looked magnificent covered with all those jewels mentioned in Ezekiel 28. He may well have had arms and legs. Aaron’s rod turned into a serpent, ‘tanin’, in Pharaoh’s court, Exodus 7:10. A ‘tanin’ is a type of crocodile that looks more like a snake with legs. And GOD’s punishment for Satan was that he would from now on ‘crawl on his belly and eat dust’, Genesis 3:14. This could imply the snake once had legs. Anyway, in English, ‘nachash’ and ‘tanin’ are both translated as snake or serpent, were as in Hebrew, they are separate words/creatures. The reference to ‘snake’ in Genesis 3 could mean his snake-like character – sneaky – rather than his physical appearance. Again, this is not the issue. The outcome of Romans 3:23 is the same no matter what Heylel looked like.