4-21-19 Behold Behemoth

"Behold Behemoth" - Believe It or Not - Gregory Supple - gps.pleadtheblood@gmail.com

 

Genesis 1:24-25 ~ "And God (ELôHîym) said: 'Let the earth bring forth the--- Living Creature (Heb. Chay Nephesh) after its kind - livestock (Heb. Bᵉhêmâh), and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind: and it was so.

 

And God made the Beast (Heb. Chay) of the earth according to its kind: livestock (Bᵉhêmâh) according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was Good."

 

Earth's atmosphere is unique in ELôHîym's universal grand scheme --- Scripturally speaking on the Sixth Day of Creation the ONE & only God of Israel formed and placed animals for Adam too name in an environment previously unhospitable for life. For good reason Earth's atmosphere is the only known planet capable of sustaining life as we know it.

 

ELôHîym Alone is the giver of life --- NOT some hapless amoeba happenstance activity. Even if evolutionists want to take ELôHîym out of their existence equation - it won't effect God's Eternal Word one Iota. As Paul puts it quoting: Psalm 51:4 -

 

Romans 3:1-4 ~ "What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the --- Oracles of God. For what if some did - Not Believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be True, but every man a liar; as it is written:

 

That you may be Justified in Your Words,

and Triumph when Ye Judge."

 

Robert Ripley's - 'Believe IT or NOT' was first franchised in 1918 A.D. as a newspaper cartoon format called 'Champs & Chumps' featuring extraordinary sporting feats. But by 1919 he'd branched out into worldwide bizarre oddities - Ripley hired Norbert Peralroth who'd spend the next 52 years of his life in the New York Public Library, working ten hours a day and six days a week searching unusual facts for Ripley's bizarre worldly oddities.

 

Peanut's Charles Shultz first publication of artwork was published by Ripley. It was a cartoon claiming his dog was a hunting dog who eats pins, tacks, screws, nails and razor blades. Schulz's dog Spike later became the model for Peanuts much beloved - Snoopy character.

 

Like Snoopy's fictional feats - Evolution's Eons Equivocation Fallacy Theory - in the end will be revealed as false, when we shed this tent of flesh. Where God's Word Alone will have Final Authority!!! Believe it or not!!!

 

1st Peter 1:24-25 ~ "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you."

 

If only Norbert would've spent all those thousands of hours studying God's Word he'd found some amazing creatures described therein --- putting Ripley's worldly oddities too shame. Like Isaiah's six-winged Seraphim, or the ôwphânim whom Ezekiel describes as four faced, four winged, full of eyes, wheeled beings: the same looking living creatures named 'Zoon' described in Revelation 4.

 

Ezekiel 1:10 ~ "As for the likeness of their (four) faces: each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an Ox (Heb. Shôwr) on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle."

 

It's interesting YaHWaY --- created Cherubim looking like animals called in the Greek 'Zoon' where we get out English word Zoo. When HE told Job --- Behold Behemoth's behavior: the animal kingdom is irrevocable linked with mankind's dominion. The Dinosaurs definitely died off --- but did Dinosaurs coexist with humans? An biblical debate can be made that death did not enter the world until Adam & Eve first sinned. We see according to the second Account of Creation --- ADAM naming ALL land animals.

 

A distinction is made in ELôHîym's animal kingdom's creation account, generalizing created living land animals with the Hebrew Term --- Chay Nephesh --- translated basically as: 'Beasts with Breath'. But deliberately describing what English translations call livestock, in Hebrew actual is 'Bᵉhêmâh' ---

 

Bᵉhêmâh - Strong's # H929: Be-hay-maw - from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):- beast, cattle.

 

While Young Earth Creationists and Old Earth Creationists may squabbled about whether Noah rode a Diplodocus or an Elephant onto the Ark. What's certain is Earth's Antediluvian Atmosphere was dramatically different.

 

It is acknowledged by all familiar with the fossil record that there was an abrupt change in the climate of the ancient world. At one point in the past millenniums the earth was characterized by a temperate, ideal climate. Tropical plants grew in the Arctic regions; our now-burning deserts had wondrous vast vegetation.

 

As Agnostic scientist, Dr. Robert Jastrow, actually reaffirms the biblical worldwide flood account: "Throughout the long reign of the giant reptiles, the world had known a mild and constant climate; on every continent the eye met gentle landscapes of low relief, with shallow seas and vast areas of swampland and tropical forests. The elements of that world were in perfect balance. The clement, moist weather supported a lush growth of vegetation; where the plant eating dinosaurs fed on the vast vegetation."

  

Many biblical scientific scholars believe that the Flood is the best explanation for the radical change in earth's climate. It is likely that the pre-Flood globe was bathed in a blanket of water vapor that produced an Eden-like environment (cf. Genesis 1:7; 2:6).

 

After the torrential rains dissipated that protective cover, earth's climate changed radically. Additionally, the up-thrust of the "fountains of the deep" (Genesis 7:11), forged mountain ranges and carved deep canyons. Geo-conditions thus were created that facilitated drastic climatic alterations. Circa 2348 B.C.

 

Did Dinosaurs actually coexist with Noah? Job living in the 2nd millennium certainly knew of these prehistoric beasts existence? The actual Hebrew terms for 'Beasts of Burden' vary. Shor is a term for either ox, bull, or cow and most often refers to a single animal. While Bâqâr describes a beeve (beef) or an animal of the Ox/Bovine family collectively called a herd.  

 

But Behold Behemoth: YaHWaY told Job --- definitely is NOT any domesticated animal. When ELôHîym described 'Bᵉhêmâh' could HE be describing dinosaurs? Descriptions of dinosaur like creatures are nearly universal throughout the world's ancient civilizations. Where did this global concept originate? How did ancient societies throughout the world similarly describe, record, draw, etch, sew and carve such colossal creatures in such uniformity, if they did not witness these Behemoth's in their relative recent past?

 

Job 40:15-20 ~ "Behold Behemoth (Heb. Bᵉhêmôwth): which I made with thee --- he eateth grass as an Ox (Heb. Bâqâr). See now, his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moveth its tail like a cedar!!!

 

and the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of bronze - His ribs like bars of iron. He is the First of the Ways of God. Only He who made him can bring near His sword. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts (Heb. Chay) of the field play."

 

Strong's #H930 Bᵉhêmôwth: Perhaps an extinct dinosaur. A Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus, exact meaning unknown. The Hebrew word Bᵉhêmôwth is an plural form of the Hebrew Bᵉhêmâh' (found nine times in the Old Testament). The word, which basically means beast, commonly is used in a generic way, in a similar fashion as Chay.

 

In Job 40:15, however, the Behemoth description provided by the inspired writer clearly indicates that a specific animal is in discussion. The plural format is generally regarded as a literary device to intensify size; as T.K. Cheyne suggested meaning - a Colossal Beast.

 

Of course, these Behemoth Colossal Beast accounts are by no means limited to the Bible. The paleontology term Dinosaur actual derives from a Greek expression signifying - terrible lizard. Apparently, the word was first coined about 1841, when an English scientist, Richard Owens, used the term for a newly discovered class of fossils representing a large category of animals that once inhabited the earth.

 

An expedition into Arizona's Painted Desert in autumn of 1924 A.D. was led by Samuel Hubbard, Honorary Curator of Archaeology with the Oakland Museum. The region was wild and scarcely had been visited by white men at the time. The area had been inhabited, however, by the Hava Supai Indians for a very long time.

 

The walls of the Hava Supai Canyon are of red sandstone, yet covered by a thin veneer of oxidized, gray iron-locally known as Desert Varnish. By the use of some sort of sharp writing instruments (e.g., flint), the early Indians could scrape away the exterior coating, thus revealing the bright red sandstone beneath. It was a perfect way to do artwork on a canvas that virtually was imperishable.

 

One of the most startling discoveries was that of a dinosaur pictograph! The carving was photographed, and a cast was made of the indentations. Hubbard suggested that the dinosaur had dimensions similar to those of the ancient Diplodocus, and in his report of the expedition, he published a photograph of the carving, with an artist's rendition of a Diplodocus on the opposite page, for comparison sake.

 

The Hubbard report also contains several additional items that throw the evolutionary geologic supposed timetable into a tailspin. There is the photo of a human moccasin print, complete with stitching, from the so-called Triassic age. And, add to this the fact that not many miles away, near the edge of the Painted Desert, were fossilized dinosaur tracks on a sandy shore of what had once been an ancient sea.

 

Hubbard noted this remarkable conclusion: "Either man goes back in Geologic Time to the Triassic Period, which is millions of years beyond anything yet admitted, or else there were 'left over' dinosaurs which came down into the age of mammals."

 

These carved pictographs of dinosaurs Hubbard wrote: "show every sign of a great antiquity" and "the fact that the animal is upright and balanced on its tail would seem to indicate that the prehistoric artist must have seen it alive."

 

Though, Hubbard remained a devout evolutionists, he could NOT shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong with this supposed Darwinian scenario:   Stating: "The fact that some prehistoric man made a pictograph of a dinosaur on the walls of the canyon upsets completely all our theories regarding the antiquity of man. Facts are stubborn and immutable things. If theories do not square with the facts then the theories must change, the facts remain."

 

Facts Indeed are a stubborn thing: Dr. Hubbard recounted - when a photograph of the dinosaur pictograph was sent to a prominent scientist for evaluation, the gentleman's response simply was: "It is not a dinosaur, it is impossible, because we know that dinosaurs were extinct 12 million years before man appeared on earth"

 

It seems with each new fossil discovery, secular scientists simply ignore the facts and tack on another zero in their ridiculous long theory now up to 60 million years when the dinosaurs went extinct. If dinosaurs supposedly went extinct at least 50 million years ago, how did ancient man of the past few thousand years precisely and uniformly depict them?

 

Clearly God told Job He made Behemoth at the same time as thee. "Behold Behemoth (Heb. Bᵉhêmôwth): which I made with thee."

 

Diplodocus length (largest known skelton specimen @ 108 ft.) was taken up by its neck and cedar like tail, and had a unique body construction, with two rows of bones on the underside of its tail to provide extra support and greater mobility. Because of Diplodocus' unusual skeleton, paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh coined its name in 1878, deriving it from the Greek words: 'Diplos' meaning double and 'Dokos' meaning beam. Job 40: 18 "Behemoth's bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron."

 

Job 40:19 ~ "Behemoth being the foremost of God's works, only ELôHîym can contend with." Emphasis mine.

 

The Bible is clear - ALL sea creatures were created by God on Day 5, and ALL land creatures were created by God on Day 6. These would include Behemoth, which would've co-existed with man until they died off for various reasons, including most dramatically, the worldwide flood of Noah. Circa 2348 B.C

 

God's Word is the Final AUTHORITY given unto earthlings and dinosaurs alike --- for good reason did YaHWaY include Creation in the Ten Commandments: the Fourth Commandment states ---

 

Exodus 20:11 ~ "For in Six-Days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and ALL that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."

 

YaHWaY ELôHîym made ALL --- everything in Six Literal Days --- some Six Thousand years ago. Diplodocus would be included in ALL. Unfortunately, for Evolution's Eons Equivocation Fallacy Ideology, taking ELôHîym out of the existence equation is only an exercise in their unbelief. Leaving their unacknowledged sin unaccounted:

 

Psalm 51:3-5 ~ "For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be Justified when thou Speakest, and be clear when thou Judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."

 

David admittedly knew full well his grievous sin of adultery and murder. Turning to the only ONE who faithfully can forever --- forgive, and forget --- ELôHîym!!!

 

Psalm 51:9-13 ~ "Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O' God (ELôHîym), and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence. Do-not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You."