Hi Gena,
I think there is a pretty tight timeline of about 6000 years since Adams. The reason is because Ray went over this at the conference about how there was a book that Adam passed down. So the lives of those people that had this book would have overlapped for it to reach Moses.
Transcript of audio 3
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There already apparently existed histories and genealogies of creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Jacob’s children.
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Gen 5:1 This is the book [Heb.- writing, register, scroll, BOOK] of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Moses had a book, he didn’t write it, he had it. Where did he get it? Well undoubtedly Adam had it, and God gave Adam material. God taught Adam a language, Adam knew how to read and write, he had a language and vocabulary.
How though, do we get this from Adam to Moses? Well it’s not as difficult as you might think. Now if these were the earliest records or books that some race processed, don’t you think they were kind of valuable!
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Now Adam did not canonize any Bible. Moses was the first. How did Moses get these books? Well it’s not as hard as you may think. Methuselah born in 3254 BC, knew his great, great, great, great grandfather Adam (who died in 3011) for 243 years before he died. This is interesting stuff. These dates are estimates of course. Noah (born 2885) was 600 years old when the flood came and Methuselah died in the year of the flood. So Noah had already known Methuselah 600 years.
If Methuselah got these books from Adam, whom he knew for 243 years, then he could have easily passed these on to Noah. Whom he had known for 600 years and then Noah would bring them through the flood. It’s no other way books are going to survive a flood, they had to be brought on the ark.
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Here is a timeline from a Bible study this year. You can see the overlaps of the lives of Adam and Methuselah and then Noah. It appears that Noah lived at the time of Abraham, then Isaac and Jacob and then it goes to Joseph which brings us to Moses.
Adam and Eve 4000- BC
Methuselah is born 3250-
Adam dies - age 930 3000+
Noah is born 2885
Noah's flood - 969
Methuselah dies in the year of the flood 2285
Babel - languages confused 2150+
Abram/Abraham born 1995
Noah dies at age
(lived 500 pre and post flood) 1936
Sodom and cities burned 1900-
1st son Isaac born 1895
Jacob and Esau born 1835
Famine ends in Egypt 1700
Israel prospers in Egypt for 150 yrs 1600
Israel slaves of Egypt for 175 yrs 1450
Moses leads exodus 1275
Israel invades Canaan - walls of Jericho fall 1234
Samson is born 1090
David born in Bethlehem 1034
Saul first king of Israel 1025
David king of Israel 1000+
David dies age 69 965
Solomon rules - 1st Temple built 965-925
Elijah and Baal priests 860+
Israel falls to Assyria
Isaiah prophesies 700
Judah taken by Babylon Temple burned 600-
Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremaih
Zechariah calls for new Temple 520
Worship restored by Malachi, Ezra and Nehemiah 450
Temple built in Samaria 333
Septuagint: The Law from Hebrew to Greek 250
Rome rules Judah 64
Herod the Great is made king of the Jews
rebuilds the Temple 37
Jesus is born 4-3
resurrection 30 AD
mercy, peace and love
Kat
p.s. Sorin, there is a hint about the dinosaurs in audio 7 that I'm working on now. It seems there were dinosaurs in the world since Adam