Historic BC to AD Events
Overview (BC to AD)
Colossians 1:16 states, "For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him."
To fully grasp the essence of the New Testament and the AD period of history, it is essential to explore the foundational patterns and principles revealed in God’s Covenant with Moses. This covenant, which introduced the Ten Commandments, is crucial to the Torah, representing God's first revelation and covenant with His chosen nation, Israel.
Understanding this context is key to comprehending the 'God' of the New Covenant, who is often viewed as all-loving. Our understanding remains incomplete without recognizing the God of the Old Testament, who some may perceive as harsh or unloving. This section aims to provide insight into this perspective and offers more information tailored for Kingdom Believers across three sections: the Beginner's, Learner's, and Deeper Dive sections. We encourage you to explore these sections carefully. Additionally, a Teaching Panel is available under the LINKS section of the main menu, and we recommend starting with the Torah Class, led by teacher Tom Bradford of Seed of Abraham Ministries in Florida.
The period from BC to AD marks the creation of the Seen Realm. The BC section introduces the concept of the Oneness of God, emphasizing that no created beings are equal to Him. It presents some of God's names, illustrating His attributes, and discusses the significance of Covenants for both God and humanity.
Patterns that began in the Garden of Eden have continued throughout the ages, though they have sometimes led to adverse outcomes, particularly regarding the Watchers or other. Inter-dimensional beings, often referred to as Elohim, messengers, angels or demons, are introduced in this context. While additional information relates to the BC period, this section serves as a valuable introduction and a corner stone to the New Testament of your Bible. You can learn more details using the Year Selector above.
The God Singularity
Genesis is the first book of the Scriptures, which Jews call Torah and Christians refer to as the Old Testament. It is God's sparse revelation of how things started 2,400 years ago. The Old Testament (OT) encompasses the Torah, Prophets, Psalms, Wisdom writings, and more, most of which are expressed in Hebrew or Aramaic. It unveils the profound depth of God's nature and provides information about the unseen heavenly realm.
Genesis starts, "In the beginning, God created..." These first five words show that God transcends time because He was before He had created any time-spaces, is throughout time-space in all realms, and will be after time and realms ends. He is the "I-Am" singularity.
Before time and Creation, there was nothing but God, He was the Trinity singularity. He was everything.
What God created had to limit Him. There had to be a void into which God's thoughts and words could begin to exist apart from God Himself. The first known realm was the unseen spiritual/heavenly realm filled with angels and other beings, collectively called Elohim. This realm was illuminated by God's radiance (Shekinah Glory) - an unapproachable light. The unseen realm existed before the Earth realm, as revealedin Genesis.
God's creative thoughts and words allowed for a separate and distinct "space" into which a creation could become apart from God. He spoke and sang the heavenly realm and host into existence first. The Seen cosmos, man's world, and the human race were created sometime after the creation of an unseen realm. The Seen realm (humans, plants and animals, fish and birds and spirits) is a reflection of the Unseen realm. The Seen creation and its time-space are dimensionally lower than the Unseen realm and its time-space.
Humans are presented as being a body created from the Seen creation, through which a God-breathed eternal Spirit that has an eternal soul can be aware of, and operate in, the body in the Seen realm. From man's perspective, the dimensions of the heavenly realm are unseen, but from the heavenly perspective, the dimensions of the universe and earthly realm are seen because they are also dimensions of the unseen realm and space-time.
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Names/Attributes of God
In His self-revelation, God shares His additional Names, which are, in fact, attributes of His being. Each attribute carries a Holy Name, and includes His Love, Righteousness, Holiness, Healing, Grace, Mercy, Patience, Spirit, Salvation, Provision, Unity in the Trinity, Power and Might, and more.
It is worthwhile spending time contemplating each of God's Names as a way of learning about who He is and how He desires to interact with mankind. It will take a lifetime to understand God, and even then, it will not be a full revelation. Below are a few names of God, there are many more.
Covenants With God
The New Covenant of Jesus, sealed by His sacrifice and blood, followed God's Covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses and King David. It marked the transition from the BC to the AD era and the transition from the Levitical to the Melchizedek Priesthood.
Covenants are deliberate actions taken by God and humans which are binding and contain mutual obligations. They are often sealed by blood. Creation was the first Covenant between God and man in which man was (among other things) to go forth and multiply. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, an animal was sacrificed to clothe the two. God's Covenant with Abraham focused on Redemption and the promise of the coming Messiah. It too was sealed with a sacrificial animal offering. And the ultimate Covenant was, of course, Jesus' Messianic and redeeming work of the cross. Jesus' blood sacrifice is what gives mankind Hope for a better world to come.
Patterns and Nonhumans
The importance of times past are the "patterns" revealed and the results that occurred. The creation of the Seen Realm is shown in the bible, including the Earth and the First Man, the prototype of Humanity. It also shows that humans share some attributes with the Eternal Creator God, such as free will.
The Bible also shows that space-time is a creation. From a dimensional view, it unfolds in a linear sequence of events and places. People are present in their today, but remember past events as yesterday. There is no experience in the dimension of tomorrow until it becomes today.
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The Bible however, informed by a perspective from the unseen realm, reveals some events that will happen in the future, so mankind can plan for them. This is called prophesy. Those who articulate it are called prophets, and they claim that their knowledge comes from God. Sometimes these future events are close to now, and for others it is thousands of years in the future. Pictured above is modern day Prophet Chuck Pearce, Houston, Tx. He brings messages from God, but the lines are blurred today between Teachers, Preachers and Prophets.
Looking into the past reveals recognized patterns of events that have previously occurred, and the same patterns emerging again in the present. The goal is to avoid the mistakes of the past. This is called learning but it seems that humans are not very adept at this, and often make the same poor choices.
After the fall humanity was vulnerable to being influenced repeatedly by Evil, often manifest from the unseen (spiritual) realm. The DanielPlace will offer a future video focused on fallen angels and the creation of hybrid beings (the Nephalim, Anakim, and Rephaim) by their union with human females. This corruption of the human bloodline and genetic pool ultimately led to the global flood that destroyed most of humanity on earth but unfortunately not the fallen angelic beings that had corrupted humanity in the first place. Shortly after the flood, these beings reappeared and were a threat to the lineage of Messiah. God directed the Israelites to destroy them upon entering the promised land of Israel.
The history and origin of giants are evidenced even today. Skeletal remains were discovered near Lake Geneva, WI and and elsewhere in the Southwest US. In addition to their large size, they had specific genetic anomalies, such as an extra finger or toe. Not all people who walked the earth were human beings.
In The Beginning of the Seen Realm
Shortly after being created, human beings became aware of interdimensional beings from the Unseen spiritual creation that pre-existed their Seen realm. One of these beings from the Unseen Realm was responsible for the fall from grace of the human race.
This, of course was the interaction with the Serpent who enticed Eve to disobey and judge God for withholding the knowledge of the not good, from her. The woman saw only a talking serpent, but this snake was entangled with a spiritual being in the Unseen realm speaking through it.
These unseen beings were called Watchers and were assigned to observe man. They transgressed the boundary separating the Seen and Unseen realms, revealing themselves to humanity, mating with human women, creating giants ( Nephilim) and thereby polluting the human gene pool. They redirected human development by the knowledge of evil, and expanded human understanding of the world with knowledge from the Unseen realm. For these trespasses, they were condemned to Lake of Fire and constrained until the time of their punishment. It's amazing what can be learned from Bible, rather than simply listening to words or interpretation from someone else.
The punishment part of the Garden Story is not fully revealed in Genesis, but is told in the Book of Enoch. This book is not considered God's inspired Word, but is referred to by the Apostle Peter, and in the Book of Jude, both in the New Testament. After spending time reading the Bible, God's Word, it is edifying to get into some of the extra Biblical works for additional information. But have a solid Biblical foundational understanding before adding these additional works.
Dual Dimensionality
The Seen and Unseen creations can be understood through physics' theories of Quantum Mechanics (10 dimensions) and String Theories (vibrating in 11 dimensions). These are both creations of God and held together by God's power. Humanity is an entanglement of a body in the Seen realm, with a Soul and Spirit in the Unseen realm.
Kingdom believers' lives are safely located with Jesus in the Unseen Heavenly realm, according to Colossians 3:2-3. Consider what "you died," in this passage has to do with water baptism, and what "life" (soul or spirit) that is hidden in Messiah, who is with God in heaven, means. This is a profound and pivotal passage in Scripture. If you are intrigued, read John 3:13. What does it mean that Jesus, while on earth speaking with Pharisee Nicodemus, also said He was in Heaven simultaneously? What part of Jesus was in Heaven while He walked on earth? Is there more to humanity and being created in the Image of God than perhaps most of us understand?
Inter-dimensional vs Inter-Planetary Beings
Aliens are not interplanetary in origin (from within the Seen realm), but are instead trans-dimensional (from outside the Seen realm). They manifest themselves in the Seen realm through portals or gateways created from a higher dimensional reality (the spiritual or heavenly realm). One of the ways such portals could be potentially opened is through technology. Follow some of the developments and discoveries of the Cern Accelerator in Europe located at the border of France and Switzerland, to learn more.
More often spiritual beings work by "entangling" with human bodies, the same way that the human soul and spirit are entangled within bodies. Demonic oppression and demonic possession do not require evil spirits to be physically seen, except through how they manifest in humans.
Some newer bible translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) texts do a better job of conveying the meaning of the Scriptures as related to current scientific understanding , such as Quantum Mechanics and String Theory. Also, the Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) and the Orthodox Jewish Bible translations refers to these spiritual beings throughout the book of Genesis as Elohim, spiritual (gods/angels/heavenly hosts) from the unseen realm. Thus, Elohim is not the Name of God Almighty but a group of beings who have one almighty leader, that all exist in the unseen realm.
To obtain a better understanding, read Psalm 82 in a literal Hebrew Translation or in the ISR version (Institute for Scripture Research). In Psalm 82, the leader of the Elohim Council comes to chastise and punish the other Elohim on the council for mismanaging the affairs of the nations that had been assigned to them (see Deuteronomy 32:8). Note especially where the "sons of man" (nations) were divided up among the "Sons of God," not sons of men or Israel. The DSS version was not found until the 1940s, so translations made before its discovery were based upon flawed Greek texts rather than older Hebrew documents.
This is likely more information than you need at this point in time, but for those people who have studied the Bible and other sources of information about God and Creation, the above referrals may be helpful. The take away is that there is more to the world than what is seen and that demons (and other Elohim who oppose God) are actual beings that can adversely affect mankind. Mature in the Lord and then check out these details.