Jacob
Jacob , his father was Isaac
and his grandfather was Abraham.
During Jacob's mother pregnancy, " the twins struggled together
within her" (Genesis 25:22). Fearing , Rebekah questioned God
about the tumult and learned that two children would become
two very different nations they would always be in competition
and conflict ( which seems to be going on in the world to date
), and eventually, the elder Esau would serve the younger Jacob.
Enslaved birthright
Esau saw Jacob preparing a pot of lentils the traditional
dish prepared for a mourning ,and asked Jacob for some of that
"red, red stuff." For this reason,
Jacob demanded that Esau sell him his birthright in exchange,
noting that the birthright was useless to him if he died, Esau
agreed, and the exchange was made.
However, Esau well knew the prophecy which Abraham had received
from God (Genesis 15:13-14) that his seed would first be enslaved
for 400 years before returning to their own land. This prophecy
referred to the enslavement of the Jewish people in Egypt. Esau
wanted none of that, so he agreed to forfeit the right .
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob experienced a vision in which he beheld a ladder reaching
into heaven with angels going up and down it, a vision that is
commonly referred to as Jacob's Ladder. From the top of the ladder
he heard the voice of God, who repeated many of the blessings
upon him.
According to Rashi, this ladder signified the exiles which the
Jewish people would suffer.
The angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia,( Iraque )
Persia,( Iran ) and Greece climbed "up" very high before falling
"down,"
but the exile, that of Rome/Edom kept climbing higher and higher
into the clouds.
Jacob feared that his children would never be free of Esau's domination,
but God assured him that at the End of Days, Edom too would come
falling down.
The ladder can also be interpeted
as come and gone important
dominant high crafted or trading centres: -
Olmec
/ Mayan civilization ( Central America
) Harappan
civilization of the
Indus valley ( India
/ Packistan)
Sumerian ( Iraq ),
Persia
( Iran ),
Egypt ( )
, Greece ( Athens
), Italy ( Rome
) Britian ( London
), America ( New york
), Japan ( Tokyo
), korea , and
China ( Hong kong ) etc
, which seem's to follow a controlled East to West trade time
schedule.
Antediluvian
According to the Bible,
the only survivors from the antediluvian
period were Noah and his chosen family.
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The antediluvian gene period
- People lived much longer than people today,
typically between 700-950 years, as reported
in the Genealogies of Genesis;
- The Earth contained many more people than
the Earth contains today. Whiston calculated
that as many as 500 million humans may have
been born in the antediluvian period, based
on assumptions about lifespans and fertility
rates.
The Bible speaks of this era as being a time
of great wickedness. There were Gibborim (giants)
in the earth in those days as well as Nephilim,
some translations identify the two as one and
the same. These giants were the offspring of the
"sons of God", usually interpreted as angels,
who descended from the heavens to beget them with
mortal women. The Gibborim were unusually powerful;
Genesis calls them "heroes of old, men of renown;.
The antediluvian period ended when God sent the
Flood to wipe out all life except Noah, his family,
and the animals they took with them. Nevertheless,
the Nephilim literally meaning fallen ones.
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Methuselah
Methuselah was the oldest person whose age is mentioned
in the Hebrew Bible.He is mentioned in Genesis as the son
of Enoch and the father of Lamech father of Noah, whom he
fathered at the age of 187. He reportedly reached the age
of 969 years. According to the Book of Genesis 5:27: And all
the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years:
and he died. . His name has become a general synonym for any
living creature of great age.
Methuselah also is the name of the world's oldest living organism,
a 4700year old bristlecone
pine Scientists planted a seed from an extinct, 2,000-year-old
date palm species; the unexpected sprout it produced was named
'Methuselah' (New York Times article [1]).
God sets a specific year life span for human being's
Modern science puts the natural limit on current human longevity
well below 150 years. Guinness Records for the oldest living
person have long remained within the range from age 112 to
the all-time record of 122 years held by Jeanne Calment, but
the process of sorting genuine supercentenarians from longevity
myths is hampered by the often questionable birth certification
records from the late 19th century.
Some believe that the cause for the decrease in human longevity
for bible believers is the passage of Genesis 6:3 where God
sets a specific fate lifespan for human beings.
