Life And Times Before The Flood Taken

From Ancient Documents

Compiled By Glen W. Chapman July 1996

And Satan taught him to make dyes for their clothes and different patterns and colors, like crimson and purple . . . And all the sons of Cain appeared in beauty and in colorful dresses and with their horns, doing all kinds of wickedness . . . And they looked at the daughters of Cain and their beautiful figures and at their dyed hands and feet and their tattooed ornaments on their bodies and the fire of sin was kindled within them.'

And Seth said: Prophets and patriarchs, listen. My father, the first created, when he became sick unto death, sent me to the gate of paradise to ask God to have an angel lead me to the tree of compassion, that I might take of the oil and anoint my father, so that he might arise from his illness. This I did. And after my request an angel of the Lord came and asked me: What do you desire, Seth? Do you desire the oil which raises the sick which comes from the tree of which the oil flows, because of the illness of your father Adam? This he cannot have now. Go, therefore, and tell your father, that after 4000 years from the creation of the world, the only-begotten Son of God will become mortal and will descend below the earth and he will anoint him with that oil.

.... Then they all cried and land came out to the place where Abel had been killed. And they found him lying on the ground, killed, with animals around him and they cried and wept because of this righteous man . . . And Adam carried him with tears running down his face, and he went to the cave of treasure where he placed the body and wrapped him up with sweet spaces.'"

Second Book of Adam and Eve Chapter 20:

1. After Cain had gone down to the land of dark soil and his children had multiplied therein, there was one of them whose name was Genun, son of Lamech the blind who slew Cain.

2. But as to this Genun, Satan came into him in his childhood

and he made sundry trumpets and horns, and string instruments, cymbals and psalteries and Iyres and harps, and flutes, and he played on them at all times and at every hour.

3. And when he played on them, Satan came into them, so that from among them were heard beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished the heart.

4. Then he gathered companies upon companies to play on them; and when they played, it pleased well the children of Cain, who inflamed themselves with sin among themselves, and burnt as with fire; while Satan inflamed their hearts, one with another, and increased lust among them.

5. commit all manner of the grossest wickedness, which they knew not; and put them up to manifold doings which they knew not before.

7. Then Satan, when he saw that they yielded to Genun and hearkened to him in every thing he told them, rejoiced greatly, increased Genun's understanding, until he took iron and with it made weapons of war.

8. Then when they were drunk, hatred and murder increased among them; one man used violence against another to teach him evil taking his children and defiling them before him.

9. And when men saw they were overcome, and saw others that were not overpowered, those who were beaten came to Genun, took refuge with him, and he made them his confederates.

10. Then sin increased among them greatly; until a man married his own sister, or daughter or mother, and others; or the daughter of his father's sister so that there was no more distinction of relationship, and they no longer knew what is iniquity; but did wickedly, and the earth was defiled with sin and they angered God the Judge, who had created them.

11. But Genun gathered together companies upon companies, that played on horns and on all the other instruments we have already mentioned, at the foot of the Holy Mountain; and they did so in order that the children of Seth who were on the Holy Mountain should hear it.

12. But when the children of Seth heard the noise, they wondered, and came by companies, and stood on the top of the mountain to look at those below and they did thus a whole year.

13. When, at the end of that year, Genun saw that they were being won over to him little by little, Satan entered into him, and taught him to make dyeing stuffs for garments of divers patterns, and made him understand how to dye crimson and purple and what not.

14. And the sons of Cain who wrought all this, and shone in beauty and gorgeous apparel. gathered together at the foot of the mountain in splendour, with horns and gorgeous dresses, and horse races, committing all manner of abominations

1. But after this, they no longer kept His commandment nor held by the promise He had made to their fathers; but they relaxed from their fasting and praying, and from the counsel of Jared their father. And they kept on gathering together on the top of the mountain, to look upon the children of Cain from morning until evening, and upon what they did, upon; their beautiful dresses and ornaments.

24 After this a hundred men of the children of Seth gathered together, and said among themselves, "Come, let us go down to the children of Cain, and see what they do, and enjoy ourselves with them."

31 And then they looked at the daughters of Cain, at their beautiful figures, and at their hands and feet dyed with colour and tattooed in ornaments on their fares, the fire of sin was kindled in them.

32 Then Satan made them look most beautiful before the sons of Seth, as he also made the sons of Seth appear of the fairest in the eyes of the daughters of Cain, so that the daughters of Cain lusted after the sons of Seth like ravenous beasts, and the sons of Seth after the daughters of Cain, until they committed abomination with them.

Gezeh Fragment of Enoch 8:1

"Satan taught men to make knives and breast plates and all kinds of military hardware and to work ores of the earth and how gold was to be worked and made into ornaments for women ;and he showed them silver and taught them polishing and eye paint and cosmetics and precious stones and dyes .The sons and daughter of men adopted all these things and lead the Saints astray and there was great wickedness on the earth and they became perverted and lost all their ways . Semyazas taught them scientific formulas and properties of roots and plants of the earth. The eleventh pharmakos taught all manner of drugs, incantations, prescriptions formulas. Others taught them star gazing, astrology, meteorology, geology and signs of the sun and moon."

1 Enoch 97: 8-10

" These men erected Synagogues and colleges and placed in them scrolls and rich ornaments ... but they did it to set themselves up for a light and for the honors of men. They said ,'We are able to do whatever we please because we are very rich!' Enoch replied, 'you are wrong ! your riches will soon depart from you' but they went on seeking power of gain more grimly than ever.'

Enoch (Black) 7:6.

" The earth fell under the rule of the lawless, and [8:1] Azael [Satan] taught them the manufacture of weapons and how to work the treasures of the earth. 4 The cry of those slain of the people ascended to heaven. 9:1-3. The angels saw blood flowing upon the earth, and heard the voices of the slain crying out to God for vengeance "

Apocalypse of Adam 84:78.

"and they brought gold and silver and gifts of all metals and copper and iron, all the treasures of the earth. So they got the women and begot children of the darkness. Their hearts were closed up and became hard by this imitation false spirit."

"Livre d'Adam," in Migne, Dictionnaire 1:56.

"An interesting connection emerges in the account of how "in the time of Enoch they committed murder, shedding of blood of the children of men; they enslaved them, they sold what did not belong to them, they entered homes without right, and took whatever they wanted . . . they rigged the laws in their favor, and imitated the abominable deeds of the rebellious angels of a former time in which, when Abel tried to check them they encompassed his death by a conspiracy."

Book of Adam, p. 17.

"There are false prophets who wander through the mountains and hills, wild men with wild hair and wild voices. They are called vagabond shepherds, live on herbs, and claim that God speaks mysteries by their mouths. 147. One of them, by the name of Marmon , led his followers to a place of filthy water. "

The Book of Jubilees 4:19

In reference to the prophet Enoch ,we read

"And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months. And he was the first to write a testimony . . . of what he saw in a vision as it will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the day of judgment; he saw and understood everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all children of men and for their generations."

Ethiopian Enoch Fragment

" In the days of Cain evil and deceitful practices increased. The wicked spirits set themselves up in open and insolent opposition to Adam and glorying in their earthly bodies learned a great sin and openly exposed all the work they had seen in heaven."

2 Enoch 34:1-2

"They will not carry the yoke which I have placed upon them'" the Lord told Enoch, 'but they will cast off my yoke, and they will accept a different yoke. And they will sow worthless seeds . . . and they renounced my uniqueness. And all the world will be reduced to confusion by iniquities and wickedness."

Greek Enoch 98:5

"Slavery was not given from above but came by transgression, and the barrenness of your women does not come by nature but by your own willful perversions."

Enoch (Beatty 98:8)

"setting at naught the foundation of the inheritance of their fathers in a spirit of apostasy, they have no peace of mind and no joy."

Gezeh Enoch Fragment, XIII, 3.

Enoch speaks to them straight, "they could not speak, nor could they raise their eyes to heaven for shame because of their sins, and they were condemned. "

BHM 5:171

"For they have sinned, all of them the multitudes of that time, their wives, sons, daughters ,... horses [mules], their property, and all the birds that were in the world, which God destroyed with them in the Flood. All that sinned were Swept away "

1 Enoch 7:5-6 "And they began to . . . devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones."

From The Book of Moses 7:

9 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: Look; and I looked, and I beheld the land of Sharon, and the land of Enoch, and the land of Omner, and the land of Heni, and the land of Shem, and the land of Haner, and the land of Hanannihah, and all the inhabitants thereof;

10 And the Lord said unto me: Go to this people, and say unto them--Repent, lest I come out and smite them with a curse, and they die.

11 And he gave unto me a commandment that I should baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, which is full of grace and truth, and of the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of the Father and the Son.

12 And it came to pass that Enoch continued to call upon all the people, save it were the people of Canaan, to repent;

13 And so great was the faith of Enoch, that he led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his command; and the rivers of water were turned out of their course; and the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him.

14 There also came up a land out of the depth of the sea, and so great was the fear of the enemies of the people of God, that they fled and stood afar off and went upon the land which came up out of the depth of the sea.

15 And the giants of the land, also, stood afar off; and there went forth a curse upon all people that fought against God;

16 And from that time forth there were wars and bloodshed among them; but the Lord came and dwelt with his people, and they dwelt in righteousness.

17 The fear of the Lord was upon all nations, so great was the glory of the Lord, which was upon his people. And the Lord blessed the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high places, and did flourish.

18 And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

19 And Enoch continued his preaching in righteousness unto the people of God. And it came to pass in his days, that he built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even ZION.

20 And it came to pass that Enoch talked with the Lord; and he said unto the Lord: Surely Zion shall dwell in safety forever. But the Lord said unto Enoch: Zion have I blessed, but the residue of the people have I cursed.

21 And it came to pass that the Lord showed unto Enoch all the inhabitants of the earth; and he beheld, and lo, Zion, in process of time, was taken up into heaven. And the Lord said unto Enoch: Behold mine abode forever.

Pearl of Great Price Moses Chap8 .

1 And all the days of Enoch were four hundred and thirty years.

2 And it came to pass that Methuselah, the son of Enoch, was not taken, that the covenants of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he made to Enoch; for he truly covenanted with Enoch that Noah should be of the fruit of his loins.

3 And it came to pass that Methuselah prophesied that from his loins should spring all the kingdoms of the earth (through Noah), and he took glory unto himself.

4 And there came forth a great famine into the land, and the Lord cursed the earth with a sore curse, and many of the inhabitants thereof died.

5 And it came to pass that Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech;

6 And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters;

7 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

8 And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and begat a son,

9 And he called his name Noah, saying: This son shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

10 And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred and ninety-five years, and begat sons and daughters;

11 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

12 And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old, and begat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat Shem of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old he begat Ham.

13 And Noah and his sons hearkened unto the Lord, and gave heed, and they were called the sons of God.

14 And when these men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the sons of men saw that those daughters were fair, and they took them wives, even as they chose.

15 And the Lord said unto Noah: The daughters of thy sons have sold themselves; for behold mine anger is kindled against the sons of men, for they will not hearken to my voice.

16 And it came to pass that Noah prophesied, and taught the things of God, even as it was in the beginning.

17 And the Lord said unto Noah: My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for he shall know that all flesh shall die; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years; and if men do not repent, I will send in the floods upon them.

18 And in those days there were giants on the earth, and they sought Noah to take away his life; but the Lord was with Noah, and the power of the Lord was upon him.

19 And the Lord ordained Noah after his own order, and commanded him that he should go forth and declare his Gospel unto the children of men, even as it was given unto Enoch.

20 And it came to pass that Noah called upon the children of men that they should repent; but they hearkened not unto his words;

21 And also, after that they had heard him, they came up before him, saying: Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown. And they hearkened not unto the words of Noah.

22 And God saw that the wickedness of men had become great in the earth; and every man was lifted up in the imagination of the thoughts of his heart, being only evil continually.

23 And it came to pass that Noah continued his preaching unto the people, saying: Hearken, and give heed unto my words;

24 Believe and repent of your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, even as our fathers, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost, that ye may have all things made manifest; and if ye do not this, the floods will come in upon you; nevertheless they hearkened not.

25 And it repented Noah, and his heart was pained that the Lord had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at the heart.

26 And the Lord said: I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth Noah that I have created them, and that I have made them; and he hath called upon me; for they have sought his life.

27 And thus Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord; for Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation; and he walked with God, as did also his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

28 The earth was corrupt before God, and it was filled with violence.

29 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

30 And God said unto Noah: The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence, and behold I will destroy all flesh from off the earth.

Present Day Fall-Out from the Genesis Flood

It is known that water vapor is substantially lighter than air and most of the gases making up the atmosphere. There is thus nothing physically impossible about the concept of a vast thermal vapor blanket once existing in the upper atmosphere. Thus, no rainfall before the flood. This fact is specifically alleged in Genesis 2:5-6. There was little volcanic activity; this being inferred from that the "breaking-up of the fountains of the deep" (Gen. 7:11), which implies this sort of activity, was one of the immediate causes of the Deluge.

The most significant of the Biblical inferences is that of a universally warm climate, with ample moisture for abundant plant life. It is significant that fossil remains everywhere in the world and throughout the geologic column testify to just such a condition. Gen. 7-11 says: "In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the 2nd month, on the 17th day; all the fountains of the deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened." and rain fell upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights. Tremendous erosion from rainfall until all land disappeared completely. But the mixing would go on for an undetermined length of time until everything finally settled. In the meantime, the unchecked waves!! The writers estimate 1,000 feet of water was added to the earth's water table that existed before the Deluge.

Spin-off from this massive destruction was four million square miles of North American Continental ice; two million square miles or more in Europe; and possibly a comparable area in Siberia were glaciated; and still two great ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica remain.

The best fossil specimens are the preservation of the entire organisms by freezing. In Lincoln County, Wyoming, are found the most perfect specimens of fossil fish and plants. The removed items have been placed in museums throughout the world. When a fish dies its body floats on the surface or sinks to the bottom and is devoured rather quickly, actually in a matter of hours, by other fish. Fossil fish in sedimentary rocks is very often preserved with all the bones intact. Entire shoals of fish over large areas, numbering billions of specimens, are found in a state of agony, but with no mark of a scavenger's attack.

One might, for example, discuss at length such marvels as the La Brea Pits in Los Angeles, which have yielded tens of thousands of specimens of all kinds of living and extinct animals; the Sicilian hippopotamus beds, the fossils of which are so extensive that they have actually been mined as a source of commercial charcoal; the great mammal beds of the Rockies; the dinosaur beds of the Black Hills and the Rockies, as well as in the Gobi Desert; the astounding fish beds of the Scottish Devonian strata, and on and on.

The book tells about the formation of coal beds; but we will jump to the Arctic soils. The lowering of the temperature of the polar latitudes as the vapor canopy condensed and precipitated would have had immediate and important climatologic reactions. The initally warm temperature of the water in the polar seas, together with its continuing turbulent state, sufficed to prevent its freezing for a period of unknown, but substantial, duration.

Embedded in these frozen mucks of the Arctic are large numbers of fossil mammals, apparently trapped and in some cases partially frozen before the soft parts had decayed. The extensive silty alluvium, now frozen, in central Alaska contains numerous mammal fauna. Freezing has preserved the skin and tissue of some of the mammals. The list includes: bears, dire wolf, wolf, fox, badger, wolverine, saber-tooth cat, jaguar, lynx, wooly mammoth, mastodon, horses, camel, saga antelope, bisons, carbou, moose, stag-moose, elk, sheep, musk-ox and yak types, ground sloth, and several rodents.

Estimates have run as high as five million mammoths, whose remains are buried along the coast line of northern Siberia and into Alaska. In Siberia alone, some 50,000 mammoth tusks have been collected and sold to the ivory trade, and there are rare occurrences of whole animals preserved in frozen ground. The mammoth and mastodon seem at one time to have been common over the whole surface of the globe. In England, tusks have been dug up -- for instance at Dungeness -- as long as 12 feet and weighing 200 pounds. The Siberian deposits have been worked now for nearly two centuries.

There is strong evidence, for example, that much more water once filled the lakes and flowed into the rivers of the earth than is true at present. This is the picture revealed by the raised beaches and terraces found all over the world, as well as the evidence that desert regions were once well watered. Almost all the drainage basins of the closed lakes of the world bear, above the modern lake level, raised beaches which clearly testify to high lake levels at a previous time; Bonneville and Lahontan are only two of the more dramatic examples.

Lake Bonneville was a great lake that once covered much of Utah; the present Great Salt Lake being one of the small remnants. It still shows at least four distinct strand lines, the highest and oldest being about 1,000 feet above the present level of Great Salt Lake and covering an area of almost 20,000 square miles. Lake Lahontan, mostly in Nevada, has three major strand lines and covers some 8,400 square miles, with only a few insignificant relief lakes left of it at present.

On the other hand, there does appear to be much evidence of a former lower sea level. The topography of the continental shelves, the irregularity of coast lines, the great submarine canyons, the seamounts, similarities between faunas of now-separated areas, and many other factors seem to indicate that they were formed at least in part at a time when the sea level was relatively lower by several hundred feet than it is at present.

I have omitted earth and rock formation that are out of sequence, of which there were many pages with photos. The Matterhorn, famous Swiss mountain in the Alps is supposed to have been thrust some thirty to sixty miles away, over younger rocks, with subsequent erosion removing all evidence of its continuity with its source.

Although there may be considerable latitude of opinion about details, the Biblical record does provide a basic outline of earth history, within which all the scientific data ought to be interpreted.

The book is 518 pages, well documented with references to each item discussed.