END TIME: Population Signals the End of the Age?

The idea that population more than any other single earthly factor can bring major, life-threatening problems to the living, is not new. However, considering the history and the future of Mankind, we must understand the changes this might have on our lives. What is our hope?

From the Wikipedia.org we read:

In An Essay on the Principle of Population, first published in 1798, Malthus made the famous prediction that population would outrun food supply, leading to a decrease in food per person.

“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow …

levels the population with the food of the world.”

This “Principle of Population” depended on the idea that population, if unchecked, increases at a geometric rate (i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.), whereas the food-supply grows at an arithmetic rate (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.).

Thomas Robert Malthus
13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834

That population increases at a geometric rate is easily demonstrated. The following graph, also from Wikipedia.org, shockingly shows just how powerful this growth rate is:

Although there are some problems in the assumptions made by this graph, the fact that there are 6.6 billion people living on the earth today, leads one to question whether or not there are more people living now than there are people in their graves. This is difficult to determine, and as we shall see, a modified graph shows a different view based upon the Scriptures.

Looking at the recent population changes also shows how fast the world population has expanded during this generation:

Notice that the population more than doubled between 1960 (3.0 billion) and 2000 (6.1 billion). The world population is at 6.6 billion now as of this writing. From the year 2000, the next billion increase is expected in 2011. It looks like we might reach that:

Revisiting the History of Population

As noted, we need to take another look at the growth of the population. According to both Scripture and secular history, a great event happened in the history of Mankind that reduced the population down to eight people. The Scriptures name the father as Noah. Other cultures call him Manu.

As I wrote in other posts, the great flood did more than kill off the population. It also changed the atmosphere allowing gamma rays to freely enter the upper troposphere and increase the amount of radiocarbon or C14. This atom is required in creating DNA. Three carbon atoms (C12) are used to link the protein molecules together to form the DNA backbone. By mixing the unstable C14 into our DNA our life span is shortened drastically as the DNA fails to reproduce genes without flaws or mutations. The decay of C14 back to nitrogen N14 by giving back the extra neutron happens in our bodies at the rate of about 14 beta-decays or disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon. If disintegrations happen in the DNA backbone then aging can happen at any time. Witness children with progeria who start aging while still in the womb.

Life span went from more than 900 years down to 120 years and additional hazards brought it down to 70 years.

Willard Libby, the inventor of radiocarbon dating, said, in his 1960 Nobel prize speech, that trying to determine accurate dates in the prehistoric period with radiocarbon was not possible due to the fact that we have nothing from that period to create a standard against which to compare sample tests. Therefore, dates earlier than 5000 BCE could only be speculative and guesses.

Thus any radiocarbon dates prior to 5000 BCE could vary dramatically. And if you add to that the probability that radiocarbon was greatly reduced on the earth at that time, dating results of the samples would make one think that the sample was older by more than 10,000 years!

Prehistory Population Paints a Puzzling Picture

If we take evidence from Scripture, including the Book of Enoch, the great grandfather of Noah, we have to conclude that the population before the “first end” was much larger than what most assume.

This graph includes a probable estimate of the population growth from Adam to the flood. Given the number of generations, longevity, and large families, the world population at the time of the flood could have been more than 3 billion people. Also the rate of increase of the world population at that time would have been faster than it is now simply because the birth rate and life span exceeded our current values. According to Genesis the period of time from Adam to the flood was 1,656 years. The placing of the flood disaster is an estimate. The graph shows there was no human life prior to 4500 BCE.

The Jews reckon that the time of Creation was 3760 years BCE. However, considering the methods used to come up with that date, it really could be more than 200 years or more short. They incorrectly counted 360-day years before the flood and thereby erred by not counting the four intercalary days and by ignoring the solar events that determine the start of the year (spring equinox) and each of the quarters. Enoch prophesied they would do this. That could create a mistake of about 18 years. Other assumptions would have introduced even more error.

If anyone has any evidence of the time of the flood, I would appreciate hearing about it. But don’t use radiocarbon dating as that did not stabilize until about the time of Moses. We don’t really know radiocarbon levels for that time and for the time before the flood. Radiocarbon would have started to increase in 1656 BCE and continued until it stabilized about 400 to 600 years afterward. My theory is that life span decreases can be used along with radiocarbon dating to paint a clearer picture of the dates and events for the first 600 years after the flood.

A raw BP date cannot be used directly as a calendar date, because the level of atmospheric ¹⁴C has not been strictly constant during the span of time that can be radiocarbon dated. The level is affected by variations in the cosmic ray intensity which is affected by variations in the earth’s magnetosphere caused by solar storms. In addition there are substantial reservoirs of carbon in organic matter, the ocean, ocean sediments (see methane hydrate), and sedimentary rocks. Changing climate can sometimes disrupt the carbon flow between these reservoirs and the atmosphere. The level has also been affected by human activities—it was almost doubled for a short period due to atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s and has been reduced by the release of large amounts of CO₂ from ancient organic sources where ¹⁴C is not present — the fossil fuels used in industry and transportation, known as the Suess effect.

The atmospheric ¹⁴C concentration may differ substantially from the concentration in local water reservoirs. Eroded from CaCO₃ or organic deposits, old carbon may be easily assimilated and provide diluted ¹⁴C carbon into trophic chains.
From Wikipedia.org topic ‘Radiocarbon’.

The “Second End”

Enoch called the flood “the first end.” I doubt he would have used that phrase if he hadn’t been thinking about other future ends. There are three. The flood is number one. The end of the seventh age is number two. And the time just prior to the creation of the new heaven and earth is number three, that is, according to Scriptural prophecy.

After the eighth age begins, most of the prophecies in Scripture will have been fulfilled — not all but most. As these Bible studies show, most prophecies are for our time before that age begins. After that the knowledge of Eyahuwah will fill the earth and all will understand the times and the future.

If you look at the charts of the population it should be obvious that at the time of the “first end” and the prophesied “second end” the earth was and is heavily populated. To say that the many prophecies concerning “end time” or end of the seventh age events don’t apply or have all been fulfilled by past local and not global events is ludicrous.

The destruction of the temple during the Seven Years War in Jerusalem 70 CE, as well as the dispersion of the people 62 years after the end of the Seven Years War, were prophesied by Jesus, Daniel, Enoch, and the post-exilic prophet Malachi. It is assumed that the second temple was “good thing.” Perhaps it could have been, if the people had not dragged back a corrupt religion from Babylon and started keeping the Festivals on unclean days. Because of this and other failures, the prayers of Ezra and Nehemiah went unanswered. The Shechinah, the cloud presence of Elah, did not come back, not then, not since!

The true temple, during these times is to be found in the people who overcome the world and have the presence of Elah in their hearts and minds. Looking at the masses of people on earth today, we should understand that many will come out of the world’s systems and become the Sons of Light before this age comes to its end. The prophecies of Scripture point to that happening during this time. These will be given the right to be Kings and Priests in the next age.

No second chance? How about a real first chance?

The Christian religion writers, Hank Hanegraaff, The Apocalypse Code, and Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, among others are deathly afraid that someone might be saved after the resurrection. What they seem to miss is that the return of Eyahuwah (YHWH) to the earth is a time a great deliverance, not only for Christians but also for the whole world!

Both of these are followers of Paul, the Pharisee, and quote him to support nearly every assertion they make. Hanegraaff claims that his teachings are based upon a deep understanding of the Old Testament. Perhaps, but only viewed through Paul’s and his Church’s dark glasses. Hank’s biggest hang-up is that when the Deliverer [Savior] comes instead of delivering the “whole house of Israel” he will instead only deliver Christians ["the just"] and will banish “the wicked to eternal separation from God — that will occur at the time of Christ’s future bodily return to the earth.” Actually, as these Bible studies explain, Elah promised eternal life and immortality, and the three resurrections show that the English word “eternal” is a mistranslation and the word translated does not imply “eternity” but rather “age-lasting.”

Elah did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be delivered! (John 3:17)

There are THREE great resurrections in the Scriptures:

• Jesus, the firstborn from the dead.
• The righteous and elect [chosen people] at His return at the beginning of the Eighth Age.
• The rest of the dead at the beginning of the Ninth age.

Because of great deception that started during the first two ages and picked up again after the flood, nearly all people who lived and died were so confused that never in their pitiful life did they have any chance. The world needed a Deliverer with the power to bring all of them, deceived or not, from their graves to be taught by the Sons of Elah.

First, Eyahuwah will prepare the Sons of Elah by helping them overcome the world. As a result of this process they qualify to be the Kings and Priests that will forever (through out the ages) bless the rest of Mankind. Then over the next ages of Righteousness, all will be brought to the full and complete knowledge of the Truth.

Rick Warren does something similar to Hank Hanegraaff. Donning Paul’s dark glasses he proceeds to take away from you God’s ultimate plan for Mankind, which is to bring “many Sons to glory [highly esteemed positions in the family of Elahim].” Jesus is “not ashamed to call us his brothers.” But Rick Warren apparently is. Instead, he says that we are to be “Christ-like” and quotes verse after verse from Paul’s letters from which the true Apostles never quoted.

Most people, Christians or atheists, cannot even explain what it means to be “Christ-like.” And please, don’t start to explain this by quoting the words of Pharisee Paul. If this cannot be explained by the Hebrew Scriptures or through the writings of the true Apostles, then it may not have a profitable Spiritual meaning.

Both Rick Warren and Hank Hanegraaff must overcome the clouds of deception that hang over them. If in this they fail, they may be utterly embarrassed and filled with self-loathing when they stand in the resurrection on the outside looking in. What was true about the Pharisees in Jesus’ day is just as true today for those who are the disciples of Paul the Pharisee.

But woe to you, scribes [writers] and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go about the land and the sea to win one convert, and when he is won, you make him a son of Gehenna twofold more than yourself. Matthew 23:15

“Elah, have mercy on them all!”