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Is it really true that the earth is only 6,000 years old today?
Why should we believe that the year 2012 is the end of the world?
According to one of the interpretations of Sefer HaTemunah, the whole universe is already 15 billion years old at the time that Adam was created. The universe is believed to have existed for 42,000 divine years and one divine year is equivalent to 365,250 human years. When multiplied together the outcome is 15.341 billions, the age of our universe according to science.
Most of the times, science and religion give us the same answer as long as they are both true and free from any selfish and evil interest.
Before the world that we know comes near to its prophesied end, we ought to understand clearly how it all started.
At first, astronomers have speculated that the stars and the planets in our solar system arose from the condensation of vast gaseous masses filling cosmic space. They said the formation of our sun had occurred billions years ago, much earlier than the planets revolving around it. Although many theories about the origin of the sun and the planets have been propounded and rejected before, it had been generally accepted that the planetary system developed out of a disk shaped, primeval mass of cold gas surrounding the sun. After a millions and millions of years had passed, it is believed that the mass of gas had eventually broken up and formed into proto-planets.
There are many worlds and universes co-existing together in our vast universe. Our universe is believed to have been born out of the spectacular cosmic explosion known as the Big Bang. This is the prevailing theory today on the beginning of our expanding universe. Even if that is true and scientifically correct the question on who directly triggered the explosion that resulted in the formation of the stars and its planets continue to haunt our leading astronomers and scientists.
According to the Big Bang theory, which has been applied as well to the creation of our solar system, the universe came from nothing and by nothing. There is no designer at all. The universe has just exploded into existence at one moment from out of nothingness. This makes you think whether the astronomers and the scientists are in fact, quoting from the Jewish Book of Formation (Sefer Yetzirah).
Our universe has a beginning that can be proven scientifically. The idea that the beginning of the universe inexplicably points to an absolute creation and authored by an Infinite Intelligence, is highly disconcerting to the scientific community. No one among our leading scientists would even dare to acknowledge the existence of God even if most of them have become a believer already. The world we are living is definitely coming to its end very soon and even if that can be proven scientifically no one would confess of its absoluteness.
The Big Bang explosion that created the universe had left behind cosmic background radiation that can be measured in any direction out there in the space. Besides that the slight variation in the temperature of the radiation detected by Penzias and Wilson has also been discovered by a $200 million satellite called COBE that was launched on November 18, 1989. The blood-stained bed sheet of the beginning of the universe through a spectacular explosion called the Big Bang had already been found.
The scientists were amazed to discover that there is nothing accidental in the creation of our universe. It is precisely and skillfully done by very powerful forces. Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) has taken infrared pictures of temperature ripples that is likened to the finger print of God who created this vast universe. The infrared pictures taken by COBE, point to the existence of the ‘seeds’ from the early universe, which ultimately formed into galaxies and cluster of galaxies. Science has a proof that the Big Bang did not happen by chance, and it seems that even our solar system had been designed in such a way that the third planet from the sun is well-protected from all cosmic dangers and accidents.
How old is the world we called planet earth?
The discovery of radioactive decay around 1900 CE provided us a very reliable method of dating events that occurred on earth millions and millions of years ago. The oldest rocks on earth that had been dated are 3,000,000,000 years old. By means of radio-active dating methods, it has already been determined the length for the various periods of geological history, even the recent ones that our Holy Bible is relating to us.
Although the Holy Scriptures beginning from Creation Week tell us that God started a new period of re-creation on 4005 BCE from chaos, it does not mean at all that life did not exist prior to Adam the first man. Definitely life existed before the Creation Week in Genesis chapter one. Our solar system with all its planets is already revolving inside our Milky Way Galaxy, when God brought back life on earth.
Attempts have already been made to estimate the total age of the earth. This is done under certain plausible assumptions, using reliable and unquestionable data and information garnered from very old rocks and in meteorites found here. The age of planet earth has been determined at 5 billion years old.
Jewish tradition and the Holy Bible teach us that our present world would last for seven thousand year. From the writings of our Jewish sages we have learned that the seven day Creation week shows us that the universe would last for seven cosmic cycles, wherein each cosmic cycle is equivalent to 7,000 years. Thus we know from our Torah sources that eternity would last for 49,000 years.
According to Sefer Livnas Hasafir, the universe is now in the sixth cosmic cycles, which gives us the divine year of 42,000. The Torah also implicitly points to us that 26 generations from the creation of Adam had passed when God gave the Torah to Moses. And from ancient Jewish writings, we have reckoned that at least 1000 generations of mankind on earth had already passed before God repeated the Torah to the children of Israel on Mt. Sinai.
Simply put, the human species has been inhabiting planet earth prior to Creation Week (Genesis 1) for nearly 500 million years if man had also started during the Cambrian explosion. Perhaps man had inhabited earth 200 million years ago if we appeared here at the same time with dinosaurs. We should not think that human life has started on earth only when God created Adam and Eve. There are footprints in the sands of time that show mankind is older than 6,000 year old but extinction events on earth is but a natural occurrence that happens every 65 million years.
Science says another global catastrophe similar to what hit earth 65 million years ago in the Yucatan Peninsula, which resulted in the sudden death of all life in our terra firma has long been overdue. It appears that our Creator God has re-created mankind on earth 6,000 years before another extinction event would find its way to earth. God must have grown tired of personally destroying life on earth so He made sure the end of the world will happen naturally according to schedule.
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction" (Malachi 4:5-6, ESV).
The book of Genesis shows us that mankind has been given only 6,000 years to rule planet earth before God directly intervenes and destroyed its wicked inhabitants again.
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years” (Genesis 6:1-3).
The Holy Bible is a coded book. God has not given each of us a life span of 120 years since then. Noah lasted for 950 years (Genesis 9:29). Terah the father of Abraham had lived for 205 years before he died (Genesis 11:32). Abraham had enjoyed the life span of 175 years (Genesis 25:7).
God has given all of us on earth merely 120 prophetic years of human existence before the end of the world scenario comes into play again. Our planet has gone through many end-of-the-world periods before. We have estimated the total years that God has allotted mankind this time as equivalent to 6,000 years only. God has given mankind only 120 Jubilee years of existence.
“And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine” (Leviticus 25:10-11, NKJV).
One Jubilee year is equivalent to 50 years. When we multiply 120 with 50 Jubilee years, we will get the product of 6,000 years. After 6,000 years from the beginning of the re-creation of mankind, the earth shall return to the possession of our Creator God. The wicked people on earth shall be destroyed again. But the righteous shall be given a chance to evolve to the next level of existence.
God had created mankind in accordance to His own image and likeness at this time (Genesis 1:26). We have been given the chance to become part of the family of God. Jesus Christ is the firstborn begotten son of God. There are many firstborn children of God that will follow soon in the footsteps or the transformation of Jesus the Christ of God.
The year 2012 has been slated as the end of the world in this present time. Many shall be taken away to the world of the dead. Many shall remain and survive the end of the world scenario that we are already going through already.
The truth is we can not really determine the end of the world in accordance to the book of Genesis for we know not where to start the count of 6,000 years. Everything has its beginning and all things come to its appointed end.