The flood legends are perhaps the most famous biblical stories. For a long time, non-religious people thought it was fiction. But not so long ago, scientists suggested that the global sweat is a real event. One of the fundamental pieces of evidence was the fact that the same flood story is found in different cultures in different parts of the world. And this is not the only weighty fact proving that the flood really was.
1. The presence of marine formations above sea level
One of better ways detection of past floods is the presence on land of special wedge-shaped structures that are characteristic of the seabed. Any significant water activity, such as a tsunami, causes such formations to appear on the seabed. However, they have also been found on land. This suggests that a huge, widespread flood occurred in the distant past. In 2004, similar formations on the soil were discovered in the mountainous regions of Madagascar.
Ecoarchaeologist Bruce Masse has studied the area in detail. He thinks that given area is evidence of a large-scale flood and its cause - an impact crater under Indian Ocean, which was probably formed due to the fall of a large comet to Earth. Such an event, according to Masse, caused giant tidal waves and huge flooding.
2. Discovery of Noah's Ark by David Allen
On a piece of land opposite Mount Ararat in present-day Turkey (where ancient texts testify that the Ark landed), David Allen found what he believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. The dimensions of the "remains" generally correspond to those described in ancient texts, and the area itself is known among the locals as Naksuan ("Noah's Zion"). This place first became known to the world in the late 1940s after the discovery of a strange formation on the ground after an earthquake.
3. Ancient scriptures that tell the same stories
Almost every civilization has legends about a great flood in "ancient times". They are all remarkably similar, even in detail, despite the lack of known contact between these civilizations. Although everyone knows the story of Noah and his Ark, a similar story is found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the ancient writings of Sumer. There are also many other examples.
In Greek myths and legends, Zeus "sent a flood" to destroy his enemies. Upon learning of Zeus' plans, Prometheus instructed his son Deucalion to "build a chest". He did this and survived, while "all other people perished." Roman legend speaks of the god Jupiter, who, with the help of Neptune, sent a flood to the Earth in order to rid it of "evil people." In this story, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha escape the flood in a large boat that has landed on the top of Parnassus. In ancient Egyptian legends, Atum sends a flood against the "rebellious people".
4. Göbekli Tepe
Although this is purely speculation, the ancient temple complex of Göbekli Tepe is believed by some to have been one of the first regions to be established after the Flood. This 12,000-year-old megalithic complex contains buildings and evidence of irrigation and Agriculture, as well as bizarre stones with drawings of animals. There is also evidence of altars where animal remains have been found, suggesting they were sacrificed.
5. Many underwater cities
Various underwater cities (or their remains) are discovered all over the world. The age of many of them also fits perfectly with the approximate date of the flood - 10,000 BC. A perfect example of such underwater ruins is located off the coast of Okinawa. In 1986, the remains of giant steps and pyramids were discovered there. What makes this find even more intriguing is that there were ancient legends about an underwater city that was supposedly located just in that place.
Off the coast of India, thanks to new sonars, the ruins of a city were found in 2002, which stretch for many kilometers under water. It is assumed that this city was flooded during the last ice age.
6. Significance of the list of Sumerian kings
in ruins ancient Sumer among the mass of other relics, they found an object known as the "Sumerian king list", which was a list of kings who ruled Sumer from the beginning of time. What is particularly interesting about this list is that it lists rulers who lived before the Flood, which is believed to have occurred about 12,000 years ago. All these kings ruled for hundreds of years, suggesting that they lived much longer than modern humans.
After the Flood, reign lengths began to reflect more realistic life spans - most kings reigned between 10 and 40 years. Some believe that the Flood brought about far greater changes than originally thought, including changing the lifespan of humans.
7 Dead Sea Scrolls
With the discovery of the mysterious writings known as the Dead Sea Scrolls in the late 1940s, texts that had not been seen for thousands of years came to light. Scholars have also received more descriptions of both the Flood and the "Ark" used by Noah. The scrolls speak in detail about the Flood, and the ship built for salvation. It is assumed that the Ark was like a pyramid.
8 Alien References
Beginning in the late 1970s, explorer and author Zecharia Sitchin produced a series of books called The Earth Chronicles. In these books, he talked about alien race the Anunnaki, who came to Earth and created a "working race" of people to mine gold for them. These descriptions are based on Sitchin's translations of ancient Sumerian texts.
In this story, the Anunnaki were aware of a great flood that was threatening the Earth. They decided not to intervene and save people. Instead, Enlil, the leader of the Anunnaki, commissioned his favorite among men to build a ship. Man had to take with him everything necessary to save life and the Earth after the flood. It should be noted that many people completely refute Sitchin's work and theories. However, another ancient scripture, the Epic of Gilgamesh, tells of similar facts. Many paleocontact theorists argue that we are talking about ancient alien astronauts.
9. New theories
Although the theories of the Flood as a real event were once dismissed by researchers and scientists, modern researchers are now seriously considering this issue. This shows a change in thinking as well as the possibility that the Flood was an actual event. Some conspiracy theorists claim that there is a targeted presentation of information in small parts (although it is not known who is responsible for this).
10. The Ark as a DNA Bank
Even assuming the Flood was real, the stories about the Ark need not be taken literally. However, stories about the ark (or some other similar vessel) are present in all flood legends. Recalling the ancient astronaut theory, the Ark could be a collection of the DNA of every living species in preparation for rebuilding life after the Flood. This suggests that many thousands of years ago advanced technologies were available, understood and used.
In the hustle and bustle of today's life, in the struggle with its hardships, or in enjoying its charms, humanity does not think about the fact that its natural end is near. Perhaps not quite the end, but most of humanity is already naturally doomed. The Earth-Moon binary system is the cause of periodic precessional catastrophes that occur on planet Earth. In my articles on this site, under the heading "philosophy", I paid a lot of attention to this issue. The hysteria that has arisen in the world, in connection with the “end of the world”, predicted by the calendar of the Mayan Indians, makes the issue of a planetary catastrophe periodically occurring on Earth even more relevant.
If we proceed from the time scale indicated by the Greek philosopher Plato about the death of Atlantis, as a result of a planetary catastrophe, then this date can be approximately calculated. Plato (ancient Greek ;;;;;;, 428 or 427 BC) Plato indicated that the death of Atlantis occurred about 9,000 years before his time. For the first time, this legend of the catastrophe is stated by Plato in the dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias" with reference to some legends. Plato indicates the time of the catastrophe as "9000 years ago", that is, in the middle of the X millennium BC. e. Hence, given the scale of today's time, we can assume that the catastrophe occurred 11,500 years ago. Since periodic catastrophes occur at regular intervals equal to half the precession (13,000 years), and full time precession is approximately 26,000 years, then the next planetary catastrophe should occur only after 1500 years.
There is also another date by which you can navigate the time of the disaster. If we take into account that Jesus Christ was born in a manger (Aries), and he himself is (Pisces), we have another timeline. It turns out that Jesus Christ was born at the turn of the transition from one zodiac (Aries) to another zodiac (Pisces).
Note. The time of passage of the precession of the Earth's axis through the sign of the zodiac is approximately 2160 years.
Further, considering that the Vatican attributed to the Gregorian calendar approximately extra 800-1000 years for the obsolescence of the Christian religion in comparison with Islam (conclusions of A.T. Fomenko and G.V. Nosovsky), then the time of the next catastrophe will be approximately in 1160 years.
From this it can be assumed that a planetary catastrophe may occur in about 1000, and possibly in 2000 years, if all calculations are based on truth. Therefore, it can be assumed that the Mayan calendar also gives a delay of 1000 years. Hence, humanity still has time to realize and prepare for the impending catastrophe. A large spread in the estimated date of the planetary catastrophe indicates the possible conscious concealment of secret knowledge about its time, and perhaps their loss.
However, let us try to imagine the human world before the "flood" and its consequences. But first things first.
There is evidence that there was no moon above us before the Flood. All this confirms my paper on the Action-Interaction of the binary Earth-Moon system.
So, what did earthlings see in the night sky many, many centuries ago? It turns out that in many chronicles, myths and legends it is said that there was no Moon in the sky! Moreover, it did not exist before the flood, but after it it appeared. This was noticed by the inhabitants of ancient Arcadia (the southern coast of present-day Greece), the South African tribes of the Bushmen and other inhabitants of the Earth.
True, traces of ebb and flow, caused, as you know, by the Moon (a weak argument and quite erroneous - the author) were found in very ancient rocks, which does not fit into the antediluvian moonless theory.
Note, this proves once again that the tides are independent of the moon. The basis - see the articles under the heading "Philosophy".
Representatives great civilization The Maya left us evidence that, for example, Venus shone on them at night, and not the Moon. Many myths and traditions claim that the Moon rose in the sky after the darkness that enveloped the Earth during the Great Flood dissipated.
So wasn't she the cause? (Instant tilt change earth's axis- author).
And then the moon showed everything that it is capable of. It was she who became the mistress earth waters(after all, there is not so much land on our planet) and liquid underground structures. Its approach caused huge and globally widespread tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
Waves high from the cliff soared up, rushing, swallowing the land and destroying everything in their path. Volcanoes poured out hot magma from their vents, and the waters boiled around. The firmament shuddered and cracked, slipped away from under one's feet, revealing the terrible depths of its depths, where everything moved and bubbled.
So, the opinion of many astronomers and the plots of ancient legends practically coincide in that there was no moon in the earth's sky before the flood, and it appeared after the flood. Knowing what the night luminary is now “responsible for”, it is not difficult to assume that, most likely, the new place of the Moon in space as a satellite of the Earth led to such a catastrophe as the Great Flood.
Periodic planetary catastrophes are accompanied by a change in gravity on Earth. (See articles on this topic under the heading "philosophy")
Planet Earth periodically, approximately every 13,000 years, changes the force of gravity by about 25-30 times, either increasing it or decreasing it. Naturally, life on Earth, after another change in gravity, is subject to partial destruction, only rare specimens have time to adapt, being in the corresponding niches. Such niches are underground and underwater areas. So with a change in gravity, atmospheric pressure changes and, accordingly, the temperature of the earth's surface. Life that lives on the surface of the Earth, and for many millennia, adapted to given conditions, in most cases perishes in new conditions. In one case, with a decrease in atmospheric pressure and gravity, they die from decompression sickness, in the other case, with an increase in atmospheric pressure and gravity, they die from the inability to exist in the new conditions of terrestrial gravity.
Note. The death of mammoths indicates that they could not adapt to the new conditions of the Earth's gravity. The main types of mammoths were larger than modern elephants. So the North American subspecies of Mammuthus imperator reached a height of 5 meters and a mass of 12 tons, huge mammoth tusks up to 4 m in length, weighing up to 100 kg. Apparently, before the flood, the weight of mammoths was only 400 kg, and the tusks weighed only 7 kg. Hence, with such abrupt change mammoths were unable to function and therefore died.
But some surviving specimens were able to adapt to new conditions and evolve.
So, for example, with a decrease in the gravity of the Earth, life develops longevity evolutionarily. All biological processes slow down, and the aging process also slows down.
Indeed, it is known that the age of some trees reached 2000 - 6000 years! IN flora even higher longevity records are known. In Mexico, a tourist will certainly be shown a giant cypress in the village of Santa Maria de Tule, whose age is more than 12,000 years, and in Australia - an Australian macrocynia, whose age is assumed to be 15,000 years!
Thus, the life expectancy of people in 1000 years is quite possible, which is confirmed by the sixth chapter of the Bible of the "Old Testament". In addition, this chapter is similar to a scientific diary of monitoring the development of Mankind, since it dates the birth and death of the first-born sons: “Adam lived 130 years and gave birth to Seth. Then he begat sons and daughters and died. And all the days of Adam were 930 years,” etc.
It follows from this that the life expectancy of people who lived before the Flood was very high, on the order of 1000 years. Methuselah, grandfather of Noah and son of Enoch, lived 969 years. Enoch's father Jared lived 910 years. Noah lived 950 years Shem - the son of Noah (the first-born!), who was born 100 years before the Flood, lived 600 years. After the Flood, as God had predicted, people's life expectancy began to decrease dramatically. Shem's son Arfaxad, born during the Flood, lived 438 years. The duration of people decreased from 438 years (Arfaxad) to 110 years - Joseph. Moses, born 430 years after Abraham, lived 120 years, i.e. a deadline set in wrath by God for the people who will live after the Flood.
The life span of 1,000 years for humans and more than 10,000 years for the plant kingdom seems to be related to certain favorable conditions that existed on Earth before the Flood. What happened to the conditions of life on Earth after the Flood, which reduced the human age by almost ten times? It is also known from the books of Enoch and from the canonical Bible that these conditions not only shortened the lifespan of people after the Flood, but also significantly reduced their growth. It turns out that the biblical centenarians were giants compared to modern people. This is how it is said in the canonical Bible: “At that time there were giants on Earth ... These are strong, glorious people from ancient times ...”
The fact that giants once lived on Earth is said in the legends and myths of different peoples, in the traditions of the Indians South America, in the fairy tales "A Thousand and One Nights".
in churches medieval Europe showed the remains of people "who lived before the Flood." These people, starting with Adam and Eve, allegedly reached a height of 40 - 50 m!
The well-known Helena Blavatsky in her book “Mysterious Tribes on the Blue Mountains” [Journal “Lights of Siberia”, No. 1-3, 1990] writes that “anthropologists have not yet overcome even the first letter of the alphabet, which gives the key to the mystery of the origin of man on Earth . On the one hand, we find huge skeletons of people, chain mail and helmets from the heads of real giants, on the other hand, we cannot help but see how almost before our eyes the human race is becoming smaller and almost degenerates.
The question arises, what global changes occurred in the conditions of life on Earth, when the Global flood? Earth science notes a global increase in gravity that occurred about 7500 years (??? author) ago.
Note. Based on these data, the relative longevity of the highlanders can be explained. It is in the mountains that gravity and atmospheric pressure are reduced.
Note. Also, a decrease in gravity will lead to a drop in atmospheric pressure. Higher forms of life on Earth could not exist if it were not for the ability of water to accumulate gases and its gigantic reserves on Earth. With a decrease in atmospheric pressure, water will begin to intensively release the air dissolved in it, and the water of fresh water bodies, seas and oceans will intensively evaporate, since evaporation will occur throughout the entire volume of the water column due to its saturation with air bubbles. The air and water vapor released from the water will replenish the atmosphere, which, under the conditions of a decrease in the Earth's gravity, will move towards the stratosphere.
In continental regions, water bodies dry up quickly. Only full-flowing rivers, underground springs and pools can be used to provide the population with water. Water can also be obtained by condensation from the atmosphere. The difference in atmospheric pressure between the waters of the oceans and the continental regions will lead to the emergence of powerful constantly blowing monsoons, which will bring heat and moisture from the equatorial regions. These processes stabilize atmospheric pressure at a level sufficient to preserve life even at 25-30 times reduced gravity.
With an impending planetary catastrophe, when the Earth's gravity decreases, the elderly, with a weakened cardiovascular system, pregnant and breastfeeding women may die. They can only be saved in pressure chambers that compensate for the drop in atmospheric pressure. As pressure chambers can be used, for example, the subway or rapidly erected rooms with an inflatable frame. High-pressure blowers are able to maintain the pressure in them at the required level.
Note. Apparently, in the cycle of reducing the gravity of the Earth, some part of mankind escaped in underground cavities and possibly passed to an underground existence to our times. Norwegian alfars, Danish and Swedish elves, Anglo-Saxon gnomes and elves, Germanic Albs... Wise men, sorcerers, the greatest masters of metalworking, manufacturers of magic items... Traditions about these mysterious creatures are widespread among the peoples of Northern Europe. In many regions of the Earth, there are legends about dwarfs as the original inhabitants of these areas, who, with the advent of people, always gave way to them, disappearing without a trace, leaving ... underground.
In Russia, legends about people who went underground were spread throughout the North.
The Saami talk about the Uldra dwarfs - the inhabitants of Lapland. The Uldra spend the winter in their underground shelters. Laplanders are a nomadic people. Sometimes in their deerskin dwellings they hear how the Uldras are worried underground - it means that the dwelling must be moved from this place, it closed the entrance to the underground dwellings of these small creatures. If this is not done, the Uldra can do a lot of harm - tear deer skins, steal a child from the cradle and put their freak in its place. In this case, it is recommended to treat the little uldr gently - then the mother uldr will have mercy and return the child to its place.
During the day, the Uldra are blinded by the light and therefore come to the surface at night. When encountering an Uldra, one must be as careful as possible with him and not do anything that he might not like, because the Uldra are powerful wizards.
Pans of the Vepsians, Karelians and Merya. For the Veps-Karelian and Meryan cultures there is a name for a small people.
In the legends spread in the North, Chud and pans often turn out to be completely identical to each other and designate in the aggregate the ancient natives of the region, foreigners, the generalized image of which is archaized and hyperbolized to the same extent. Undoubtedly, historical legends about the Polish Time of Troubles mixed and intertwined with the memories of the Chud. Sometimes both Chud and pans are presented simply as robbers.
According to legend, the legendary Chudsky pamas went underground along with the Chud. And among the Finnish peoples - Zavolochskaya Chud, Komi-Zyryans, Vepsians - priests, sorcerers, sages began to be called Pams since then ...
Miracles of Komi.
legends about little ones underground inhabitants who know how to process iron and possess supernatural abilities, have been preserved among all the peoples inhabiting the North of Russia. So, the Komi living in the Pechora Lowland know about the existence of little people who work miracles and predict the future. They came from the north.
At first, the little men did not know how to speak the Komi language, then they gradually learned. They also taught people how to forge iron. Little men are called miracles here. Miracles are powerful sorcerers who work magic and predict the future.
Siirtya Nenets.
On the coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Komi legends about dwarfs are taken over by the Nenets. “Once upon a time, when our people were not here, the “Siirtya” lived here - people of small stature. When there were a lot of people, they went right through the ground.” This is how they talk about the Siirta - a strange, mythical people who once supposedly inhabited the space from Kanin Nos to the Yenisei.
traveled to late XVIII in. Academician I. Lepekhin wrote about the European North of Russia:
This is how the Nenets tell about the Siirta - a strange semi-mythical people who once inhabited the expanses of the North from Kanin Nos to the Yenisei.
The ancestors of the Nenets - the people of the Samoyedic language group - began to develop Western Siberia even 8 thousand years ago. In their movement to the north, the Nenets encountered Enets, Tungus, Khanty and Mansi, Selkups, Nganasans and the strange small people of the Siirtya (Sirtya, Sikhirtya). If everything is simple with the first peoples - they still exist, then scientists are still racking their brains over the riddle of the Siirt. The Nenets met with the Siirt on the northern coast of Yamal. If in the folklore of the Nenets there are quite a lot of episodes of struggle with other tribes, then there are almost no plots about the war of the Nenets with the Siirt - the mysterious Siirt dwarfs, the Nenets say, are able to disappear, become invisible. Finally, the Siirts moved underground. For some time they lived underground, where they owned herds of mammoths.
The Siirta came to the surface only at night, avoided meeting people, but some of the Nenets were lucky to communicate with the Siirta and learn from them bits of their knowledge. Then the sirts disappeared completely.
Traces of the Siirt are preserved throughout the tundra: in the names of many rivers (the Siirtya River), hills, and tracts. It is known that the Siirta are a wealthy people: they have an abundance of silver, copper, iron, lead and tin. They live in the earth and extract them from the earth. In their dungeons, the Siirts bask in front of a small blue fire. On the surface, the Siirt can only be seen from afar, and if you come closer, they will hide, but no one knows where. , - say the Nenets.
In the legends about the Siirt, two layers are easily visible - the first, about the pre-Samodian population of the tundra (there is a hypothesis that they were the Yukagirs), and the second, more ancient, having common roots with the northern legends about the Chud. The reality of the Siirt is so beyond doubt that some researchers are even trying to find archaeological traces of this people. Of all the peoples with whom the Nenets came into contact in their history, only the Siirts remain a mystery...
Wonder white-eyed.
In some legends, it is said that the Chud went into the ground through underground passages.
In the foothills of the Urals, where the Chud disappeared, there is one place - the Sumgan cave, with which a “feeling of horror” is associated, as in the case of a manhole found by the OGPU expedition on the Kola Peninsula. The Russian explorers, who appeared in the Urals later, also have legends and tales about people living in the mountains of small stature, beautiful, with unusually pleasant voices.
Just like saivoks on the Kola Peninsula, they do not like to be in daylight, but some people hear a ringing coming from the ground. And this call is not accidental. Speleologists, who have stormed this cave more than once and reached its second bottom, recall the feeling of an incomprehensible, unfounded fear that grips them in one of the passages of the cave. To this day, the narrow hole into which this passage passes has not been passed by anyone.
What did that monster look like? In addition to her small stature (references to the small stature of a Chud are rare in northern legends), she was white-eyed. Large whites of the eyes, or eyes made up of solid whites. In any case, this is a very characteristic and important detail. One of the Pomeranian legends says that the Chud moved to New Earth where he still lives, hiding in inaccessible places or becoming invisible when meeting people.
The fact that the fishermen saw Chud on Novaya Zemlya is told by a legend recorded in the North in 1969. This Pomor story about a red-skinned invisible Chud living on Novaya Zemlya opens a cycle of other legends about Chuds - mysterious little men living underground , in caves of granite rocks.
Apparently, a new terrestrial civilization begins its development after another planetary catastrophe. And 13 thousand years is quite enough for the next terrestrial civilization to reach a level equal to or higher than the modern one. It is no secret that certain knowledge from the previous civilization becomes available to the next, and this encourages the next civilization to its rapid development. Naturally, with each change in the force of gravity new civilization develops according to the force of gravity. With a decrease in the force of gravity of the Earth, civilization develops in the main spiritual direction, with an increase in the force of gravity, civilization develops mainly in the technogenic direction. Our current civilization is man-made. With an increase in the Earth's gravity, many phenomena can occur that would not be possible with a reduced Earth's gravity. Much can be explained from the standpoint of the varying gravity of the Earth. So megalithic structures, the pyramid belt, the presence of nuclear funnels, and so on and so forth.
Let's try to understand this issue a little.
According to the report, more than a hundred funnels of various sizes were found on Earth, which were formed as a result of strong nuclear explosions in the distant past. One of the largest was found in South Africa. Its diameter is one hundred and twenty kilometers. It was from it that we managed to calculate the date of this event. According to scientists, the force of the explosion was equal in power to 25 times more than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and was equal to 500 thousand tons of TNT.
It is quite natural that the critical mass of a substance depends on the gravity of the Earth, and the value of the critical mass depends on the properties of the substance, on density, the amount of impurities, etc. Density is one of the most important physical characteristics of a substance. It is defined as the ratio of the mass of a substance m to the volume V occupied by it, that is, the density p \u003d m / V. Density is measured in kg/m3. The concept of specific gravity (y), that is, the ratio of body weight P to its volume V (y \u003d P / V), is very common. Density and specific gravity are related by the formula V = pg, where g is the gravitational acceleration.
Since the critical mass of any chemical substance is capable of a chain reaction, with an increase in gravity, a certain amount pure substance capable of a chain reaction. Hence, with a reduced gravity of the Earth, the amount of critical mass is much greater than the amount of critical mass with an increased gravity of the Earth. Due to the increase in the gravity of the Earth after another planetary catastrophe, nuclear explosions apparently occurred spontaneously on Earth.
Further, it can be argued that, due to the reduced force of gravity, the Earth rotated more slowly than it does now. As the Earth's gravity changes, its mass changes, and hence its orbit around the Sun. As the Earth's solar orbit changes, its speed changes. As the solar orbit increases, the speed of the Earth's revolution increases, and the speed of rotation around its own axis decreases.
Even in the ancient Mayan calendars found in the last century, there is information that once a day lasted 36 hours.
Exactly 36 hours is equal to and internal rhythm human life. Scientists conducted an experiment: if a person is placed in a closed space without the ability to see the Sun and information about the current time, then his body is rebuilt to new rhythm. In this rhythm, a person's day lasts 36 hours, instead of the usual 24 hours. Physiologists believe that such information is stored on genetic level in a person's memory.
Now the location of the pyramids on the 30th parallel indicates that the construction was carefully geographically verified. And why? Perhaps this is to slow down the rotation of the Earth. The effect of a spinning skater who, by throwing out his arms, slows down his rotation.
From this it can be concluded that the earth unique planet, a periodic change in gravity, affects terrestrial matter and naturally human civilization, forcing her to constantly start all over again.
All the consequences of these changes need to be studied in detail, but official science has not yet reached this understanding. It's a pity.
About why “the Lord repented that he created man on earth” (Gen. 6: 6), what the ark built by Noah represents, how the holy fathers interpret its structure, what is the first act of Noah after salvation and what it teaches us, in another conversation on the book of Genesis Andrei Ivanovich Solodkov.
For an Orthodox Christian, the theme of the death of an antediluvian civilization sounds like a warning about the cause of death and the apostasy of the modern world. The Savior in the Gospel of Matthew warned about the end of this world and instructed the disciples: “Truly I say to you: this generation will not pass away until all these things take place; heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. No one knows about that day and hour, not even the angels in heaven, but only My Father alone; but as it was in the days, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man: for, as in the days before the flood they were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and did not think until the flood came, and did not destroy them all, so will the coming of the Son of Man; then there will be two on the field: one is taken and the other is left; two grinders in millstones: one is taken and the other is left. Watch therefore, for you do not know at what hour your Lord will come. But you know that if the owner of the house had known what watch the thief would come in, he would have been awake and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore, be ready also, for at an hour you do not think the Son of Man will come” (Matt. 24:34-44).
Giants who neglected God
Let's turn to the Book of Genesis. In chapter 6 we read:
“When people began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, then the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and took them as their wife, which one they chose. And the Lord [God] said: It is not forever for My Spirit to be despised by men [these], because they are flesh; let their days be a hundred and twenty years" (Gen. 6:1-3)
Who are the sons of God and the daughters of men, and why were these marriages not pleasing to God, moreover, such unions are called "neglect of the Spirit of God"?
So, we see what these people were like - “strong and glorious of old”: they were famous and boasted precisely of their flesh, their outward beauty and strength, and at the same time they neglected the Spirit of God.
“And the Lord saw that the corruption of men on earth is great (This is also confirmed by the words of the Holy Scriptures, because corruption really increased on earth. - A.S.) and that all the thoughts and thoughts of their hearts were evil at all times…” (Genesis 6:5).
Can you imagine what state mankind reached in the antediluvian world, if all their thoughts were evil, and there was almost no good left?
“...and the Lord repented that he had made man on earth, and he was grieved in his heart” (Genesis 6:6).
The word "repented" is used in relation to God as an anthropomorphism. There are quite a few such anthropomorphisms applied to God in the Bible, for example, it is said that God has arms, legs, mouth... In the Holy Scriptures, this is attributed to God for our human understanding.
“And the Lord said: I will destroy from the face of the earth the men whom I created, from man to beasts, and creeping things and birds of the air, for I repented that I created them” (Gen. 6: 7).
Why before cattle and reptiles and birds? For the reason that man is the crown of creation. Man was placed by God to be responsible for the world that God created for him. But in connection with the fall, the departure of man from God, a predatory, consumerist attitude to nature has developed and is developing in man according to the principle “after us, even a flood.” No wonder this expression has been preserved, it reflects the whole character and the whole degradation of the antediluvian world. That is why God says, "I will destroy them."
Opposition to God is not only an open fight against God, but also when a lie is presented as the truth of the gospel Gospel
Because of the neglect of the Spirit of God, degeneration began, as they say today: “the degeneration of the nation,” “the degeneration of the people.” What do these words mean? Neglect of the Spirit of God is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, that is, conscious opposition to God's will, God's Law, neglect of grace and all the means that God has given us to accomplish the work of our own salvation from the death of sin. But this opposition is not necessarily open rebellion. The opposition to God is also expressed in the spirit of Antichrist, when a lie is presented as the truth of the gospel message, when the Truth is refracted to the standards of this age to please human desires and ideas. The words come to mind: "Divine Revelation is not a hanger to hang human ideas on it."
The people have perverted. So it is said: “And the Lord saw that the corruption of men on earth was great, and that all thoughts and thoughts were evil at all times.”
“But Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord. Here is the life of Noah: Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generations” (Genesis 6:8-9).
Righteous does not mean "holy, sinless." Only God is sinless. Here it is said of Noah that he was righteous, but not sinless; that he was righteous "in his generation" - that is, Noah was a righteous man in an antediluvian corrupt society, at that historical moment.
"Noah walked with God" (Gen. 6:9).
“Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. But the earth was corrupt before the face of God, and the earth was filled with evil deeds. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupted, for all flesh had perverted its way upon the earth” (Genesis 6:11-12).
People began to live, neglecting the Spirit of God, to live according to their own will. They began to perceive freedom as permissiveness. As the Russian philosopher N. Berdyaev wrote: “People began to perceive freedom not “for”, but “from”. Not to serve God and people, but from serving God and people. When today's youth says: “Oh, tired in a week! Let's go party on the weekend”, I always ask: “Who will we break away from? From God Who is Love and Life? And indeed, in those places where people go to “break away”, it is possible to break away from God and from life in full - so that after such a separation you won’t come to your senses at all and not return to life.
The ark
“And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I will destroy them from the earth. Make yourself an ark out of gopher wood; you shall make compartments in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. And make it thus: the length of the ark is three hundred cubits; its width is fifty cubits, and its height is thirty cubits. And thou shalt make a hole in the ark, and bring it down to a cubit at the top, and make a door into the ark at its side; build in it a lower, second, and third dwelling” (Gen. 6:13–16).
As you can see, there were three compartments in the ark, it was pitched both outside and inside and had two holes: one was up and the other was on the side.
The ark is a type of the Church. The fathers of the Alexandrian school saw meaning and prototypes in the smallest details of the structure of the ark. For example, from within, resin is resin that is preserved for the Judgment of God on those who go to the Church but do not seek God. He just walks, but without repentance, looking for something of his own, at his own discretion. Because it is said in that the judgment of God begins from the house of the Lord. And the outer pitch is for the outer ones, those who heard the call, but never came to the Church. That is, this is an indication to us that not everyone who goes to the temple and even resorts to the Sacraments will be saved. What is necessary for salvation? How to approach the Sacraments? Having a "contrite and humble heart" (Ps. 50:19). Going to church in and of itself does not guarantee salvation for a person. But we must not forget that there is no salvation without the Church.
The hole in the top of the ark is the prayer of the Church to God, and the hole on the side is the prayer of the Church for the people
About the holes that were made in the ark from above and from the side, Blessed Augustine writes as follows: the hole on top is the prayer of the Church to God, and the hole on the side is the prayer of the Church for the people. This is the commandment of love - to God and to your neighbor.
God tells Noah:
“But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And bring into the ark two of every animal and of every kind of flesh” (Genesis 6:18-19).
Both clean and unclean animals were collected into the ark to preserve the animal world. Unclean animals were considered those that were not suitable for food. Although the command to eat meat will be given only after the flood, the giants and antediluvian people who apostatized from God arbitrarily violated the commandment, killed animals and ate meat food.
But the question is: if the ark is a type of the Church, then why were there both clean and unclean animals in it? Because in the Church different people. Let me remind you: a sin in the Church is not a sin of the Church, but a sin against the Church.
“And Noah did everything: as God commanded him, so he did” (Genesis 6:22).
This is a very important note! Noah, as righteous in his generation, does everything that the Lord instructed him to do.
Chapter 7 begins with the words:
“And the Lord said to Noah: Enter you and all your family into the ark, for I saw you righteous before Me in this generation…” (Genesis 7:1).
Let us pay attention: the words “in this generation” are repeated again - this is always emphasized.
“... and take seven of every clean livestock, male and female, and of unclean livestock, two each, male and female; also from the birds of the air, seven each, male and female, to keep a seed for the whole earth, for in seven days I will rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy everything that I have created from the face of the earth. Noah did all that the Lord commanded him” (Gen. 7:2–5).
And the words that we have already read are repeated again: "Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him." See why Noah was saved? And who will be saved in the Church? - The one who does as the Lord commands him.
For 120 years Noah built this ark, for 120 years a sermon about salvation and a warning against death sounded. But people said, “Noah, are you crazy? Where are you going to swim? There is no rain! (And the land was then irrigated with abundant dew.) It’s far from the sea, and you are building such huge ship... How are you going to get to the sea on it? And Noah answered: "It will rain - and not just rain, but a flood!" And I heard: “What flood?! What are you saying? Water from the sky is incredible. Everything is in order, there will be no flood, everything is fine! You, Noah, are just a fanatic."
Today, Christians are also made fun of. The Orthodox say: "The Lord will come for us and take us to Heaven." Unbelievers object: “Will your wings grow? How are you going to get up? What about the law of gravity? And if you rise, then burn in the atmospheric layers ... "The world has its own idea, the world measures by its own standards. But for God, who created all physical, chemical laws, laws of biology and thermodynamics, there are no obstacles to eliminate them at His discretion. He is the Almighty, that is, he can do anything. That is why Christ says, "You are not of this world." I repeat: the world measures by its own standards, it has its own idea of God and man. We talked about these ideas in our previous conversations when we analyzed the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. God is not an old man sitting on a cloud. Such an idea of God is primitive, and, of course, such a God cannot do anything, and it is hardly worth believing in such a thing.
So, the ark, according to the interpretation of the holy fathers, is a prototype of the Church. Note that God does not offer, in case someone disagrees with Noah, to build an alternative ark. In the conversation, we talked about the fact that only that service is pleasing to God and useful, which is consistent with His will. So here. God's will is that everyone who wants to be saved must enter the ark. So it is today: all who wish to gain salvation, the first thing they must do is to enter the Church through the Sacrament of Baptism and begin the work of their salvation. Just as there was no alternative to salvation outside the ark, so today there is no salvation outside the Church - outside of Christ, because the Church is the Body of Christ, and we are the living cells of this Living Organism, and Christ Himself is its Head. And when the Orthodox Church addresses people of other religions with the words of the uncorrupted Gospel, we do this not because we are fighting against them, we are fighting precisely for them, for their immortal souls, whose salvation is possible only in Jesus Christ. St. Theophan the Recluse writes about this in the book “The Way to Salvation”: “The Protestants wanted to improve Catholicism, but they did it even worse. They want to be saved outside the ark of the Church on their boots…” And he reminds that all those who did not enter the ark perished. It is not enough to call yourself a Christian, you also need to become one, and you can become one in the full sense of the word, only in the Church, where through the Sacraments there is a union with the Lord according to His goodness to man.
“After seven days the waters of the flood came to the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened; and it rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights. On this very day Noah entered the ark, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them” (Genesis 7:10-13).
The Lord said, “And behold, I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all flesh that has the breath of life under the heavens; everything that is on earth will lose its life” (Gen. 6:17). Some say today that only a certain part of the Earth was flooded with waters - only Palestine. Strange judgment. Repeats three times that died all living things on earth. Reading:
“And all flesh that moved on the earth, and birds, and cattle, and beasts, and all creeping things that crawled on the earth, and all people, lost their lives; everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils on dry land died. Every creature that was on the face of the earth was destroyed” (Genesis 7:21-23).
What else needs to be proved to people who believe that only some part of the earth was flooded?! It is said that the concept of geography at the time Genesis was written was limited. But Moses, its author, wrote while moved by the Holy Spirit! He was not an eyewitness to all these events, but the Holy Spirit revealed to him how it all happened. By the way, scientists who believe that the world and all the laws in the world and in the Universe were created by God, speak about this in the following way: after the Flood, the climate on earth changed, before the Flood, the Earth's axis was not tilted by 12 degrees, during the Flood, God shifted the Earth's axis by 12 degrees, therefore, the poles were formed - North and South, the climate changed, the greenhouse period ended, when the earth was irrigated with abundant dews, atmospheric precipitation began to fall on the earth after the flood. Today, the remains of mammoths are found at the North Pole. A baby mammoth was found even with a flower in its mouth, which he chewed: so with this flower he died. There was an instant catastrophe on the earth - and the whole earth lost its life!
“And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark” (Genesis 8:1).
Events then unfold like this:
“After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent out a raven, which, having flown out, flew off and flew in until the earth dried up from water” (Gen. 8: 6-7).
“It is not known when the very last hour will come, and you say: I am correcting myself. When will you improve, when will you change?
Very interesting verse! Blessed Augustine, giving an interpretation on it, turns to a Christian who is in the Church, but is fickle in his ministry and puts off the work of his salvation: “It is not known when the very last hour will come, but you say: I am correcting myself. When will you change, when will you change? Tomorrow, you answer. And every time you say: tomorrow, tomorrow. You have turned into a crow. And I tell you: when you croak like a crow, death awaits you. After all, the raven whose voice you imitate flew out of the ark - and did not return. But you, brother, return to the Church, which that ark signified.”
“Then he sent out a dove from himself to see if the water had gone off the face of the earth, but the dove did not find a resting place for its feet and returned to him in the ark, for the water was still on the surface of the whole earth; and he stretched out his hand, and took him, and received him into the ark. And he tarried another seven days, and again sent out the dove from the ark. The dove returned to him in the evening, and behold, a fresh olive leaf was in his mouth, and Noah knew that the water had gone down from the earth” (Genesis 8:8-11).
In many schools of the Soviet period, in the corridors and assembly halls, a poster hung all over the wall, on which the globe was drawn, and against its background - a dove of peace with an olive branch in its beak. This image is taken just from the Old Testament. A dove with an olive branch is a type of the Spirit that descended on the apostles in. We are anointed at Baptism with holy chrism, the type of which was the olive branch.
“He delayed another seven days of others and released a dove; and he returned no more to him” (Gen. 8:12).
The following verses of chapter 8 of Genesis are the command of the Lord:
“And God said to Noah, Get out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you; bring with you all the animals that are with you, from all flesh, from birds, and cattle, and all creeping things that creep on the earth: let them disperse on the earth, and let them be fruitful and multiply on the earth. And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him; all beasts, and all creeping things, and all birds” (Gen. 8:15-19).
Thanksgiving
What is the first thing Noah does when he leaves the ark?
“And Noah built an altar unto the Lord” (Genesis 8:20).
He thanks God! For what? For the work of salvation done for him and his family. Because building an altar is always prayer. I repeat again: “A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit, a contrite and humble heart God will not despise” (Ps. 50:19). Noah arranges an altar: the first thing he does is serve God a thanksgiving service.
With us, unfortunately, it is different. When we have difficulties, we: “Lord, Lord, help me!” And how relieved - we forgot God. How often do we forget to thank God! Even at the meal, before we start eating, we will read “Our Father”, but after “We thank Thee, Christ our God,” we forget. So in the morning we will read the morning rule so that nothing bad happens during the day, and in the evening - rather sleep. Noah doesn't do that. He thanks God:
How often do we forget to thank God!
“I took from every clean livestock and from every clean bird, and offered it as a burnt offering on the altar” (Genesis 8:20).
Noah brings clean animals to God. Clean and undefiled animals for the Old Testament sacrifice - this was the best and most effective sermon for the people who lived in those days. This announced that the Son of God would come without spot or wrinkle, like us in everything except sin, and would save the human race. We live in a different time, and we need different sermons.
God accepts this sacrifice because it was clean, organized, grateful.
The closing verse of chapter 8 of Genesis is a very important one. This is the promise of God who says:
“And henceforth all the days of the earth sowing and reaping, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).
We see how the climate changes: for the first time in the Holy Scriptures, winter and summer are spoken of.
So the waters of the flood cleansed the whole earth from sin and sinners. This is the answer to the question for those who ask: if there is a God, why doesn't He clean up the mess? God put things in order from a position of strength, but people didn’t get any better because of this. Why? I will answer. The cause of sin is rooted in the human soul, and therefore it is in the soul that order must be put in place. According to the Fathers, the soul is made up of three components - mind, feelings and will. Order begins with a repentant attitude of mind. A person needs to understand what state he is in, what is happening to him, what is the meaning of his life. If a person does not want to reflect on these issues, then his life becomes insane and no external changes (reformist, social) are able to change life for the better, both for the person himself and for society as a whole.
We will talk about this in more detail in our next conversation.
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The KP columnist studied the sacred texts and made incredible discovery
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Let us turn to the genealogy of the first man on earth, Adam. In the Old Testament it is written in black and white: “All the days of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died."
Adam's son Seth lived 912 years. Grandson Enos - 905. Great-grandson Cainan - 910. Great-great-grandson Malaleel - 895. Great-great-great-grandson Jared - 962. The next descendant Enoch - 365. Methuselah and all - 969! World record holder. No wonder there is an expression of the Methuselah age. Lamech - 777. Noah - 950.
By simple addition, division, we find out: the average life expectancy of the patriarchs of the nine antediluvian generations was 912 years. (The tenth, Enoch, does not count, he was taken alive to heaven at the age of 365. But he managed to give birth to Methuselah himself!)
Each of these respectable fathers of families also had sons and daughters. But the genealogy mentions only the first-born in the line of Adam. It must be assumed that the rest of the children lived for a long time.
It is strange that the Old Testament does not say how long the progenitor of mankind Eve and her heirs lived. Perhaps because it was created from the rib of Adam. Sorry, feminists, but you can't take words out of the Bible. The iron patriarchy ruled the ball before the flood, women knew their place...
ALL CALENDARS LIE?
But why, why did the first people live so long?
I remember that the leading gerontologist of the country (a specialist in aging), an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, on the Direct Line with the readers of Komsomolskaya Pravda answered a similar question concisely and authoritatively: “Back then, in the Bible, a month was considered a year!” I sat next to the academician, allowed him to doubt. "Scientifically proven fact!" - said the honored worker of science of the Russian Federation.
Yes, you can't argue against science.
The other day, taking up this biblical detective, I asked a burning question about the Methuselah age to another respected gerontologist, geneticist, doctor of sciences. "Bible on different languages in different centuries they copied, - the scientist explained intelligibly. - There was a translation error. In the original, the “lunar month” stood, and the ancient translator put the word “year”. Then it went like this. And if you recalculate, then life expectancy was around 80 years, which is real.”
It turns out that the legendary Methuselah actually lived just over 80?! The rest of the patriarchs - and even less. This is what omniscient science means!
Not otherwise, the demon beguiled the ancient translator. He brought a strong wine to him, or accidentally pushed him under the elbow. Introduced, crafty, confusion in the holy book. Oh, that Satan! First, under the guise of a snake, he seduced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For which the Lord was angry with Adam and his frivolous wife, drove them out of Eden. Thus, the first people and all their offspring, including you and me, lost their eternal, endless life, violating the original plan of the Creator. And then the demon replaced the month in the Bible with a year and the people in different countries for more than one thousand years, it has been puzzling over why before the flood people lived for nine centuries, and now they still reach only one with a creak.
You can safely close the journalistic investigation.
FIVE-YEAR-OLD FATHERS!
But one hitch emerged. Judging by the Old Testament chronicle, Adam gave birth to Seth at 130 years old. If we believe our gerontologists, in fact, the first father of the planet then did not turn eleven years old. But before Seth, for a moment, he managed to give birth to two sons. Lost them as adults. Remember the story of how Cain killed Abel, he himself went into exile. It was only after this loss that Adam conceived Seth, by the way. To prolong the lineage. He gave Adam the grandson of Enos at 105 years old. We divide by 12. Is it that the young parent has not turned 9 years old? Gee! Another big mystery is Adam's great-great-grandson Malleleil. He became the father of Jared in 65. If you follow the scientific version that the antediluvian year was equal to our month, he conceived the first-born when he himself was not even five years old. Isn't science funny? In antediluvian 65, by the way, Enoch also begat Methuselah himself.
So, comrade scientists, there is a discrepancy in your scientific formula - "a year for a month."
"For debauchery, for drunkenness, for debauchery!"
Then came the Flood. Well, I guess everyone has heard of him. The Lord was angry with the people for their sins and decided to drown everyone.
Backfilling question: for what specific sins? I don't think most people know.
When Adam's offspring began to multiply on earth, "the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and took them to their wives, which one they chose." And the daughters of men began to give birth to the sons of God giants. Isn't it their giant skeletons are still periodically found by archaeologists in different parts of the world? Who are the sons of God themselves? The Bible does not provide an answer. Some consider them Atlanteans, others - aliens from other planets, the same Nibiru. However, this is the topic of a separate biblical detective story, beyond the scope of our today's investigation.
“And the Lord saw that the corruption of men on earth was great, and that all the thoughts and thoughts of their hearts were evil at all times…. And the Lord said: I will destroy from the face of the earth the people whom I created, from men to cattle, and creeping things and the birds of the air I will destroy ... "
He pardoned only the pious grandson of Methuselah, the six hundred year old Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their spouses. He ordered Noah to build a huge ark, to take into it on the appointed day his large family and each creature in pairs. For divorce after the flood.
And now, citizens, pay attention!
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights ... Every creature that was on the surface of the earth was destroyed; from man to cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the air; only Noah and all that was with him in the ark remained. And the waters began to subside at the end of one hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Judging by the Bible, the ark sailed to stop over Ararat for exactly 5 months - 150 days. So a month was 30 days. About the same as today.
What if there were only 7 months in the Old Testament year, the meticulous reader will ask? Then the Methuselah century will be almost half as long, and with young 65-year-old fathers everything is tip-top!
“The water was constantly decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared. After forty days (almost the middle of the eleventh! - Auth.) Noah opened the window of the ark he had made. And he released a dove to find out if there was land anywhere. He returned without finding her. After a delay of seven days, Noah released the bird again. In the evening, she flew in with an olive leaf in her beak. After waiting another seven days, the patriarch again released the dove, and he did not return. Apparently, he found somewhere a piece of sushi and stayed. But Noah continued to wait. Until the end of the twelfth month. And only "the six hundred and first year, by the first day of the first month, the water on the earth dried up and Noah opened the lid of the ark." The earth dried up only on the twenty-seventh day of the second month. It was then that God ordered Noah to leave the ark along with his family, all cattle, reptiles and disperse over the earth in order to be fruitful and multiply.
SENTENCE - 120 YEARS FOR LIFE
With the calendar, at the very least, figured it out. It turns out that with the Old Testament chronology everything was as it is today. I specifically do not name the academicians and doctors of sciences that I really respect, who misled me with the “scientific” formula - the biblical year is equal to the modern month. They themselves have clearly not read the Bible, although the topic of longevity touched upon in it is their life's work. They simply repeated the version common in scientific circles, deftly refuting the age that was inexplicable for Methuselah scientists. That is why I quoted the Bible in such detail, cited facts. You may not believe me. And don't believe me, check it out for yourself. Today is not Soviet atheistic times, anyone who is interested can easily find and read the Bible.
There is another version that the then 10 years went for one year of the current one. But how does she explain that Mallalel and Enoch had their first children at 6.5?
Even before the flood, having become angry at the people who sinned with the sons of God, the Lord said: “My Spirit will not forever be neglected by people; because they are flesh; let their days be a hundred and twenty years.” This is where, dear readers, all the talk of scientists comes from, that a person should live 120 years. From the Bible. (If we take the "scientific formulas of the biblical chronology", it turns out that God gave us 10-12 years each. Nonsense!!!)
And now let's take a closer look at how the Lord's strict sentence to sinful mankind to reduce life from 969 Methuselah years to 120 was carried out.
The fulfillment did not happen instantly, by the method of the Divine Miracle, as one might think: someone hit 120 - immediately give your soul to God! But gradually. Evolutionary. After the Flood.
Noah himself, having descended from the ark with his family and cattle, no longer experienced the joy of fatherhood. Although he lived another 350 years after the universal cataclysm. And he rested in a bose in 950. The earth was inhabited by numerous offspring of his sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. But in the Old Testament, according to tradition, the genealogy of the first-born Noah is described in detail.
Shem himself, born before the Flood, lived 600 years, his son Arfaxad, who was born two years after the universal flood - 438, the grandson of Sal - 433, the great-grandson of Eber - 464, the great-great-grandson of Peleg - 239, Raghav - 239, Serug - 230, Nahor - 148, Terah - 205. The son of Terah - the legendary "father of many tribes" Abraham - 175, his wife Sarah - 127. Abraham's son Isaac - 180, grandson Jacob - 147, great-grandson Joseph - only 110. The same wise Joseph that predicted Egyptian pharaoh seven fat years and seven hungry years. After his death, his body was embalmed and placed in an ark in Egypt.
And soon the prophet Moses will bring all the Jews out of Egyptian captivity to the Promised Land. Moses himself lived exactly 120 years designated by the Lord. But here is his curious psalm:
“The days of our years are seventy years,
and with a greater fortress - eighty years;
and their best time is labor and illness,
for they pass quickly, and we fly.
It was said before the birth of Christ, but as if about us, unfortunate 21st century.
Judging by the genealogy of Sim, it took only a dozen generations of descendants of the 950-year-old Patriarch Noah to reduce life expectancy sharply and steadily. Frozen at our modern level. What's wrong? Flood universal? But the water has gone, the earth has dried up. And people did not stop sinning after the Flood. The burning of Sodom and Gomorrah for homosexuality happened under Abraham.
There are speculative near-scientific hypotheses that before the Flood there was a huge steam-water dome above the earth's atmosphere. 12 meters thick! He, they say, like a screen, reliably protected the planet and the first people from harmful cosmic rays, ultraviolet, absorbing more than 70% of the radioactive background. At the same time, it created a greenhouse effect, plus additional atmospheric pressure. Oxygen on earth was more than 50 percent. People lived as if in a giant greenhouse, combined with a healing hyperbaric chamber. All year round, supposedly, everything bloomed, fragrant. It was easy to breathe. Therefore, a person could run tirelessly for hundreds of kilometers. No, they say, you are sick. And if there was any ailment, people quickly recovered. The food around is natural, enriched with all vitamins and other additives.
During the flood, the heavens opened up, the entire water layer poured onto the earth, flooding it. The protective screen disappeared, there was no salvation for the descendants of Noah from evil cosmic radiation, ultraviolet, all kinds of gamma-beta rays. Mutations, degenerative changes, diseases, epidemics have gone. And then the climate has changed, the earth's axis has shifted, the cold has become regular ... That's why, they say, human life has become difficult, short.
But, I repeat, these are all amateur hypotheses, not confirmed by the Bible.
EAT pineapples, chew weed!
But this is what is indicated in the Bible itself in plain text! After creating male and female in the first week, God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed that is in all the earth, and every tree bearing fruit of a tree yielding seed: this shall be food for you.”
It turns out that the Creator created the first people as vegetarians. Clean. The so-called vegans. No eggs, caviar, milk, cheese and other gastronomic tricks with livestock products, poultry farming, as many modern vegetarians do. Only fruits, vegetables, cereals. From birth to death. Without "unloading days". Eternal Post!
Moreover, the Creator also made animals herbivores. “And to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green herbs for food. And so it was."
Imagine an idyll: lions, tigers, cows, wolves, hares, people calmly walk together. Nobody eats anyone! And everyone lives forever.
But people did not appreciate such grace. Weakened, indulged in debauchery and other indecency. And outraged by this black ingratitude, the Lord decided to drown the sinners. And for future generations to reduce life to 120 years. So as not to indulge a lot. And therefore, Noah and his family came out of the ark and gave a different covenant than to his distant ancestor Adam. “Let all the beasts of the earth fear and tremble at you, and all the birds of the air, everything that moves on the earth, and all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that moves that lives will be food for you; like green grass I give you everything.” Later, through Moses, the Lord gave people a large list of clean and unclean animals, fish, birds and reptiles, specifying who can be eaten and who cannot.
As you can see, only nutrition changed dramatically after the Flood. A person was allowed to jump off veganism, eat meat, milk, eggs and other animal foods, which, according to science, give strength, fats and proteins necessary for the body. Only a dozen and a half generations of direct descendants of the antediluvian patriarch, 950-year-old Noah, have changed, as life expectancy has sharply and inexorably decreased on animal food. Up to 120 years awarded by the Creator. And this is in an exceptional case. Our usual destiny is still 70-80 years. What else in ancient times did Moses mourn in his famous psalm.
One must think that it was meat-eating that became the humane tool of the Creator for the execution of his irrevocable sentence on the cardinal reduction of the life of sinful people.
And in memory of the golden ages of vegetarianism in Christianity, I believe, posts have been preserved. March 14 begins the strictest of them - the Great. It will last until May 1st.
Surely you ask why vegetarians today do not live much longer than meat-eaters. To be honest, I don't know. Although medicine does find small advantages of plant nutrition over animals. Perhaps because there are no generations of pure vegans who have eaten this way for several centuries without a single violation. Then one could look at the results, compare statistics, genealogies, as in the Bible before and after the Flood. This is the business of scientists. There are a lot of them now among vegetarians. Let them figure it out. My job as a journalist is to unravel the biblical detective story about centenarians.
DIFFERENT OPINION
NOT MEAT, BUT SINS SHUT OFF OUR LIFE
Sergei ZUBOV, lecturer at the Moscow Theological Academy:
Indeed, the original food of man was vegetable: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is in all the earth, and every tree bearing fruit of the tree yielding seed; - you [this] will be food (Gen. 1, 29).
Animals also did not eat meat.
Initially, a person was potentially immortal, that is, God gave him immortality, the reason for it was in God. The task of man was, becoming like God in caring for creation, in obedience to God, ascending from strength to strength and achieving similarity to Him. Since God is the source of life, then a person, becoming more and more like God, would reveal divine properties in himself - this process is endless, because. God Himself is infinite.
The whole problem is not in the "diet", but in violation of the commandments of God. The fall into sin took place and the road to immortality was closed for man. After the fall, man cannot but sin. Accordingly, if given eternal life, then this means the possibility for endless perfection in sins.
Therefore, God drives a person out of Paradise: And the Lord God said: Behold, Adam has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, no matter how he stretched out his hand, and also took from the tree of life, and tasted, and began to live forever (Gen. 3, 22). - God limits the human age so that a person cannot sin forever.
Note that it is not after the flood that God shortens the duration of life, but before: And the Lord said: My Spirit will not be forever neglected by men; because they are flesh; let their days be a hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6:3).
And the permission to eat meat is given after the flood, rather, to reinforce a person, because, probably, the world and the conditions of existence have changed.
Thus, according to Orthodox theology, the duration of a person's earthly life was reduced not because of eating meat food, but because of committing sins:
1. the fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise - a person becomes mortal;
2. the sins of antediluvian mankind - the age of man is shrinking.
In both cases, the reduction is due to a decrease in the time of approval in committing sins.
In the book of the Wisdom of Solomon we read:
Do not hasten death by the delusions of your life, and do not attract destruction to yourself by the works of your hands (Wisdom 1, 12).
Righteousness is immortal, but unrighteousness causes death: the wicked attracted her with both hands and words, considered her a friend and withered, and made an alliance with her, for they are worthy to be her lot (Wisdom 1, 15-16).
The Bible says this about the impact on life expectancy: Honor your father and your mother, that your days on earth may be long (Ex. 20:12). In the beginning, man did not honor the Father. And as a result, man became mortal.
THE FIVE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF THE EARTH
All - women, age was documented.
1. Jeanne Calment, France. 122 years, 164 days. (1875-1997)
2. Sarah KNAUSS, USA. 119 years, 97 days. (1880-1999)
3. Lucy HANNA, USA. 117 years, 248 days (1875-1993)
4. Maria Louise MEILER, Canada. 117 years, 230 days (1880-1998)
5. Misao OKawa, Japan. 117 years, 27 days (1898 - 2015)
BY THE WAY
BELIEVE - NOT BELIEVE?
The Flood appears not only in the Christian Bible. Traditions about him are preserved in the myths and religious texts of many peoples of Australia, North and South America, India, Europe, Papua New Guinea, Japan, China, the Middle East ... The British anthropologist, historian of religions J. J. Fraser collected about a hundred such versions around the world . Legends about the first ancient centenarians - gods, kings - were also widespread among different peoples. Let us recall at least our Kashchei the Immortal.
Atheist scientists often call the Bible a collection of myths, legends about the origin of the Earth, man, which have nothing to do with science. But, let's agree, the deeply scientific theory of the Big Bang about the origin of the Universe is also just a hypothesis, albeit the most common one so far. She has many critics in the scientific community. And alternate versions. The main thing is that there is still no answer, but what happened before the explosion? After all, empty space does not explode. There are also critics scientific theory about the origin of man from apes. What is the origin! Modern gerontologists and biologists cannot clearly explain why a person ages. There are dozens of deeply scientific, clever theories on this subject, sometimes mutually exclusive. Some academicians believe that a person, like a military rocket, is programmed for self-destruction, others blame free radicals that cause the “rust” of the body, others blame the “slag” that clogs the body ...
So everyone has the right to believe what they want.
