The minute they saw each other they were locked in a battle. They used trick photography to make them look large like dinosaurs. Here they are, locked in battle and rolling head over heels all over the place. It makes everything look like that was exactly the way it took place a million years ago. I am explaining it that way, because as this animal kingdom began to grow and flourish, nothing was going to happen until it had become populated the world over. What if malice, cannibalism, hostility, the negative side of everything would have set in when they were all still here in Africa? You would not be getting dinosaur eggs out of China. Do you understand what I am saying? Neither would you get skeletons. Neither could you go to the Painted Desert or the Petrified Forest and find any fossilized remains. Nor would they have found those Mastodon Elephant remains down here along the river close to where we live. They just simply would not have been there. Down along the Ohio River close to the falls, they say there is one of the largest deposits of fossilized bones there is anywhere in the area of North America. My point is, everything has to move in harmony to a fixed objective designed by God, and executed by His servants the angels. Somewhere though, a billion and a half or two billion years ago, whatever that time was, it began to reach a matured, fixed development of animal life, plant life and such, and there, no doubt, is where Lucifer, the most anointed angel of them all, began to put his plan into operation. All of those angels had to be tested, so remember, they had dominion over all the planet. The planet, then, did not have all the bodies of water it has now, so Lucifer began to plot and make his plans. As he began to correspond with the other angels and such, I can imagine weeks and months, maybe a few years went on with him sowing seed of doubt and suspicion among them until finally, he has sowed the seed of betrayal to God, and this is what caused Ezekiel the prophet to say, "Thou wast perfect in all thy ways until iniquity was found in thee." That pertains to lawlessness, taking the laws of God and turning them into a negative picture, beginning to pervert nature, and beginning to pervert the animal kingdom as a whole. Here is where cannibalism comes into the picture. Here is where disease starts. He is out to disrupt the entire plan of God. It plainly says in Isaiah, that Lucifer said, "I will be like the Most High." Yet the end of it was, thou shall be brought down to hell, but God is going to give him a process of time to continue on with his perversion, so as this animal kingdom went on, I have no doubt in my mind, that some of those animals were never intended to be as large as they were. Bro. Jackson, why would you say that? Listen carefully. The dirty devil knows every genetic law there is, in the natural aspect. Man himself does not just devise evil: It is because evil is already out there knocking at the door, that mankind finds so many ways to be evil. How many understand my point? As Lucifer began to disrupt and plan and pervert, those animals begin to turn on one another and they lock themselves in battle. They began to kill one another. How is it, that when the devil begins to build this type of environment into something, that the inhabitants sit upon the mountainsides and laugh and jump with glee? That is the devil's great joy, to create such an environment. Go to Spain, to old Toledo, the ancient capital, where there is a giant arena and read the history of it. In ancient times, when they had the bull fights, Spain was known for this type of thing. Here would come the matador. He might be on horse back. Then they would turn that male cow in. They would breed those male cows to give them an instinct to want to fight. I just have to say, Behind all of it, there has always been a devil. As that animal comes charging out of that tunnel, here stands that matador, teasing it with a cloth over a saber. After awhile he gets him so tired and so mad, then he starts sticking little spears in his back. That is to agitate him even more. There, you can see thousands of human beings that is supposed to be created in the image of God, sitting in the bleachers yelling and screaming, Kill him, kill him, kill him. Where do you think that attitude came from? Was that designed by God? No. Behind it, you will always find the devil. The aim and purpose is to entertain a bunch of carnal minded human beings, and they are going to see an animal die and they will come in with a team of horses and drag him off, butcher him, and they will have a big feast. It goes on in Mexico the same way. I have seen that same spirit in the Philippines during the war. Here would come those Filipino men with their bantam roosters. I have seen them take olive oil and rub their heads until they shine. They will rub those legs. They might bet so much against the other guy's rooster. If they don't bet to the death, then they won't put a blade on their spur. They will let them fight using the natural spur on their legs until they decide which one won. But if one says, Let's fight them to the death of one, I have seen them strap razor sharp blades on that spur. Those poor things will stand there, and then suddenly hit each other. All they need is one stroke and the other one is lying there, dying. I bring these things into the message to make a point: To me, that is not entertainment. The only kind of people that relish such stuff are people who think like that themselves. Out of the Orient we get the pit bull dogs. Read about them. They were bred to fight: They were not bred to be house pets. This is why they have a jaw that is able to crush the average jaw of a normal dog to pieces. Their nature is to fight. When they go into the arena, where they are put against another pit bull dog, it is very common to see them to pull flesh and tear a leg. They fight to the finish. I bring these things in to encourage you to let your mind go back and think this thing through and realize, There was something going on, on this planet, long before what we have a record of, in Genesis 1, and onward, and all of that brought time up to the point where what the scientists today call the modern man, had evolved to. Of course that modern man they speak of was the serpent, which we will study about later on in our message. That was the last stage of the evolution of that "man." That was as far as God let it go. Within the animal kingdom by then, in many other realms of the animal kingdom you had cannibalism, and also diseases coming in, all kinds of disruptions, chaos of every description, going on all over this planet. That is why I said, If you will travel the world over and look at your geographical maps, right through here (pointing to map) is also a desert, but look at the whole of North Africa, just a giant desert. That desert crosses over and takes in a big sphere over here. In China, you have a desert. Look at southwest America, a desert. Look in South America, you have deserts. These desert spots are not so big that clouds do not pass over, but why do the clouds never come together and give a normal amount of rainfall? I just have to say, There is something standing there. I do not believe it will be that way in the Millennium. I believe God has let it be that way to tell us something, if we have perception. In many of these areas of deserts, many times, deep down is where we find traces of a giant past that goes back many millions of years. I have a book that shows, in China, a certain person on a slope of a field, where they found this big collection of dinosaur eggs. For some unknown reason they never hatched. They are archaeologically digging these eggs loose from the substance they are caked in, and now laboratories and universities all over the world will pay fabulous sums just to get a dinosaur egg. Do you think God is ignorant of all this? Not at all. I believe right now, because it is a proven fact, that professing Christianity as a whole, is as bad off as the unbelieving part of the world that has refused to acknowledge God. Christianity has tried to appear to the world to be a voice of the existence of God, but refusing to accept certain facts of scientific discoveries, and failing to acknowledge the reality of it all and move along with God, has projected them into a place spiritually speaking, where they appear totally ignorant of the true workings of the Spirit of God. It is because they reached a certain point, believing that God is, and believing that God was, but somehow they just shut the door to any further revelation and knowledge of the existence of God, or that He has any other purpose or plan, beyond what their forefathers knew about, therefore because they have shut their minds, God just cut them off. He turns around and lets a bunch of unbelieving people rise up just to antagonize them, to agitate them. God has a right to do that, because after all, that unbelieving man was created by God also. Somewhere in that prehistoric era, when God saw that Lucifer and a category of the angels had done something so terrible on the planet that they had totally marred it, polluted it, and perverted the whole picture, He called Lucifer in check. God has a right to call a halt to the activities of an angel, and He has a right to call me in check any time He wants to. He says to the angelic beings, Come here, I have a question for you. When He began to ask questions, He was interrogating them, bringing them into judgment. When Jesus said in St. John 8:44, that the devil was a murderer from the beginning, He did not mean our beginning, which started right in here. (Chart-Genesis 1) Our beginning started right there, but Lucifer had already been around a long time then. He had already polluted and perverted the entire creation of God to the point that God had to judge the whole thing, wipe the slate clean, recycle the planet, and prepare it for this present creation. Our beginning was in what is known as the Fertile Crescent. This is known as the cradle of all civilization. From right here, we all got our start. All recorded history of the human existence starts from there. With Satan, we will say his start was from here: (Pointing to chart, back in prehistoric time.) There, was his Eden. It does not refer to the day he was put there, but since he was in charge of the original beginning, then we will say this, What was really going on there, God was holding him responsible for, and it was all in the negative. Therefore God can call it to a halt and that is what He did. Keep in mind, time, as far as that is concerned, could have went on for millions of years. However long it was, the animal kingdom had reached a development of which God of necessity was going to stop it. When He began to question Lucifer and he began to lie, keep in mind, Lucifer is the architect of everything evil and wrong. He began to lie. He committed the first murder. There were bodies scattered all over the face of the earth to prove it, so God judged him and cast him down from his exalted position. He then became a judged angel, and all those with him likewise. As I said, God can bring a catastrophic judgment to the planet when it takes that, because it will not hinder God in the future as to what He is going to do. He judges in various ways. A huge earthquake could have developed that shook this planet tremendously, to the point that the water that was on it could have rushed to one side and caused the planet to act like a ball out of shape going across a ball field, and God pushed it out in space just far enough away from its perfect relationship to the sun to bring about the lasting condition. Keep in mind, Somewhere in the eons past I have to say that the earth existed when there was a perfect climate, because, in many of the Arctic regions they find palm leaves. All of that has to have an explanation. They find the remains of an animal kingdom that is still in the flesh. Bro. Strommen told us they have found palm leaves in the glacier regions of Norway. We just have to realize, God is the God of the glacier also, so He lets things start freezing up. As I said earlier, It killed life in the regions where it reached the coldest the quickest. Life had to be taken from those huge specimen instantly, in order for them to be found in the condition some of them have been found in. Such an instantaneous, cold environment, as it spread and increased around the earth, brought all life to an end.

Let me stop here for a moment and tell a story of something I watched on the TV. It has been about five months ago since I saw this documentary. The setting was out in the state of Idaho. Have you seen the potato commercial, how the man says that so many thousands of years ago there was a volcano erupted and blew out this dust that settled over this territory? And then how, over a period of time it eventually became the type of soil that grows the beautiful Idaho potato? Right in that same state there was a rancher went out one Sunday afternoon for a walk on his property. As he came to a place where a little ravine started in, it just kept getting deeper and deeper, until after awhile it was a gully, or a large ditch. Finally he got down into the floor of this and began to walk along. The bank on each side was higher than his head. As he looked to the right he saw something white and shiny in the soil. He reached and took hold of it. It was a giant tooth. As he took that tooth, he knew it was not the tooth of an animal species in our day. He came back to the same area with hand tools and began to dig. After digging for a little while he began to unearth a fossilized skeleton of a hippo. This startled him. Then he notified some of the universities, archaeologists and scientists. They came in and brought construction equipment that they could use to excavate. They excavated eleven feet down, through a gray type earth that had come out of a volcano thousands and thousands of years ago, in the prehistoric time. They got down to a place they could see the color of this, to the color of soil under that, that there was a difference. They could see that at one time this was like a small lake where animals of that era would come to drink. Apparently, when this volcano, wherever it was in the western mountains, erupted and belched this out, it was coming into this area and has been spreading this for miles. These hippos fled and took refuge in this lake of water. That would be their natural instinct. They found them in different sizes. They found some laying on top of one another as they were trying to escape and get away from something that was after them. When they had excavated that area, they had found 150 some skeletons of the same kind of hippo that is in Africa. They had existed there. That lets you know one thing, when God gave Adam an animal kingdom, He did not make him a different kind of hippo, He just resurrected something of the same ones that had already been here, but were destroyed. He resurrected that which would serve His purpose. As I sat there that night and listened to all of that, I said, Now it is just common sense to realize how the earth has been, so that through the centuries and eons of time, in some places, the actual soil is deeper than it is in others, and that is why it has different colorations, because it depends on what that volcano has belched out there, and what kind of plant life had been allowed to live there, and used to help build up that particular soil. As we look at that, then let us begin to realize, God had a plan for all that has taken place. I am thankful to know that He does have a plan, and that our future does not just depend upon uncontrollable circumstances on His part. Like the Psalmist said, The steps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord. Let us read a few verses from Psalms 37, beginning with verse 21. "The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth. 22 For such as be blessed of Him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of Him shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and He delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." That is because the Creator has everything under control. Nothing is left to chance with Him. Evolution is still going on, but I am going to talk now in modern terms. Open your bible to Nahum 2:4. "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." When you read that, you might think you have not read anything, but you certainly have. That was not a prophecy to be fulfilled back there. That is a prophecy that applies over here, telling us what is going to be on earth one day before Gentile time comes to a close. It is for a time when mankind, you and me, have developed ourselves into an advanced stage of learning. We know that for centuries of time, in our era of time, man has guided, and has caused the animal kingdom, especially the domesticated side, to really flourish. Actually, if you can take what I said about the horse, how it has evolved, how it has reached a state of evolutionary development, you can apply that to all of God's creation. Right here, is the picture of the American Quarter Horse. It gives his genetic origin. In this other book, is the same thing, only it breaks it all down and covers many other breeds. I will say, in respect to my brothers in other parts of the world where they have not been as closely related to the horse kingdom as we have in the new world. It is what man has done in America, that has developed the horse species into creatures that are some of the most beautiful creatures there are on earth. I say that with all due respect to every situation. Most all our blood lines and breeds today go back to the Arabian horse in the Middle East. Out of the initial Arabian horse, which was the first to be domesticated, different nationalities of people began to work with it. As they would invade the Middle East, they began to capture those horses and bring them home. Studying the law of genetics, and knowing how and what to do, has caused the Arabian horse to be the progenitor of much of what is in these books I have here, along with some of the other wild things that are crossed in. When you see what has happened to the horse in the new world, I have to say, We have some of the most beautiful breeds there is to be found anywhere. Now the Arabian and Egyptian world, which is the center of the Arabian horse culture, for a long time would not let you come into their part of the world and breed your mares to any of their Arabians. They did not want anyone fooling around with the bloodline of those horses. They were very sensitive. They did not want that bloodline of the famous ones they still had, to be spread around. But now, as the Kentucky Thoroughbred, he is known the world over. He is the fastest horse around. Go down to Lexington Kentucky, when they have a horse sale. Those fellows will be sitting on the buyer's benches with their turbans on, waiting to bid on them. When they start leading those Thoroughbred colts in there, and those fellows look at that shiny coat of hair, they know they are looking at a twentieth century development of the very thing they had thousands of years ago. They pay thousands of dollars for them, because they want to take some of that bloodline back home. I have brought all of this in to show you the evolution of that genetic flow, how it works. In this which we have just read, when we come to the new world in time, and it was time for this prophecy to go into effect, do you think there is a school on earth today, or a college at the time this prophecy came in motion, that could have educated you on how to make a car? I said, Is there a college anywhere that could have told you how to make a car? No. Well I wonder how these things that make so much noise up and down the roadways out here, ever got here? Somewhere there was a boy that got tired of riding a horse. He complained every time he did, that his back side got sore. He began to think, because he did not like to patch a saddle or repair the harness, what can I do? He was vexed with it all. You have to have this kind of mind somewhere, in order to have advancement in technology. No, he wasn't lazy: He just did not like the old ways. He began to hear about somebody developing a steam engine. His mind began to think. It went beyond what he was learning in school, reading, writing, and arithmetic. They thought this guy was crazy, that he was nuts, but the guy that invented the combustible engine, once he got the combustible engine figured out, another man comes along and puts it in a finished product. He put it on the back end of a buggy and made it chain driven to the right wheel. Now here is a buggy coming down the road with no horse in front of it. I have seen them. Years ago, where I was raised up, there was some people that had an old Stanley Steamer. Once each year they would get that thing out and clean it up, and fire it up. It was more than just a buggy: It was a two seated contraption. The steering wheel shaft was just a shaft that went down through the floor, with a stick on it. The motor was on the back end. You could hear it coming five miles away, pop, pop, pop. How many have heard the old fashioned one cylinder steam motors they had around feed mills? That was the early days of the automobile. My point is this, The ones that invented that stage of the automobile, only fed off into a younger generation of minds that began to think deeper. As they looked it over, well I can improve here, I can improve here: That is mechanical evolution, designed by God the Creator. Now that they have it all figured out, they put it in text books. They will charge you a fortune to go to college and learn all this, but if there are any more new inventions come into this world that you have not seen yet, they will not come out of a college. They will come from some man's brain somewhere. I am not talking about school teachers. You go on and teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, but leave the important inventions up to God. When we needed a washing machine, we got it, and we did not get it one hundred years ahead of time. How many understand what I am saying, and what I mean by that? The same way with an airplane. Do you think the Wright brothers went to college to learn to fly? They did not. They were two boys that got tired of walking here and there. They watched the birds. They glued together and tied together all kinds of sticks and paper and stuff to get their idea started. Yes the world says you are crazy until it works, then they all want to get in the game. There are some that will listen to me preaching and say, Jackson has gone crazy. Wait until it goes around the world and thousands of other people hear it, then see what they say. I am sure there are things over there, that they know, they have seen, they have unearthed, that they will add to this. The point is, You are living in a day of modern, mechanical evolution and none of it came from a college. What comes out of a college is the memory written in text books, that if you are inclined to be an engineer in mechanics, you can go and study and learn the techniques of those that have already designed it and put it in a finished state. You can learn that, but you will never improve it until you have first had your own dream. When you have had your own dream, it will be because the Creator Himself put it there. I want to say once again, Evolution is not a dirty word. Not if you keep God in it. The minute you take God out of it you are at the mercy of the devil. You are hanging on a limb, hanging by a thread, your life will be taken out of you one of these days and God alone holds your destiny in His hands. To me, there is a God behind all of this, and I am so thankful to know that God is the One that all glory and honor belongs to, because this whole creation is by His design. I just pray that we can finish this up in a way that glorifies the heavenly Father. We do not want any loose ends dangling when we finish.

I have a few things written down, that I want to read later, things that I want to put in the message at just the right time, so they can fill the gap between the prehistoric era and our era of time, especially right here. (Pointing to chart) We have up here, 65 million years of time span, but I am not overly concerned with how many millions of years all of this could have taken: I am concerned more with what really took place, regardless of how long it took to reach the point where Adam came into the picture. I was reading an article a day or so ago, about some scientists and archaeologists that are talking about traces of rock layers they have measured, and they described their eras of time. If we did not look at it right we could wind up as a people hung up on, Was it 30 billion years ago or 60 million years ago, which is it? When you get carnal minded men looking at rocks, layers of rock, trying to speculate how long this thing has been here, you realize more and more that we have to look at it from the standpoint, that this planet hanging out here was at one time a part of other substance in the universe, and God has to be the scientist and Creator of every bit of it. He has to be the collector of it. At what point in space He did it, that is His business. I do not think He has to commit that information to our little finite minds. It is too much for us to digest. God might have started this thing trillions of years ago. What difference could it make to us? Whenever the whole thing was composed, as far as matter and material, that is God's business. If He took 60 trillion years to collect it all together, I do not think the whole mass was a round thing in the first place. But when He did begin to want to put it in its place in space, we have to believe He is the originator of the explosives that created the bang. Whenever the big explosion went off, God knew exactly where this would break up and each part would go to. It took a master mind to design such a thing as that. I would have to say to scientists, that they are like first class fools, to play around with something that is absolutely too big for them and their finite minds. They actually create much confusion with all of their probing into the unknowable. They could not create an ant. All they can create is problems and troubles for other human minds to crawl around over. I do not shame them: I am thankful for the things they have discovered, but I look at their own understanding and have to say, You are not a god, you could not create one iota of anything. The only thing you can create is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding, and mislead people, that there is no God. My point in saying this is, I do not care how many layers of rock they go down through, they will not find out everything they want to know. If they go too far they will hit a hot spot. In National Geographic magazine it shows the whole interior of this planet, how it is a box of fire, burning thousands of degrees centigrade. In some places the crust between here and that point can be several thousand miles. In other places it is not that thick. Who knows how much time was involved as each and every other planet broke off and went spinning to its place? We have to believe it could have been trillions of years coming our way in time. Whenever that explosion took place, this planet was a particle flung out here, and God knew exactly where to stop it. As He stopped it here, that is why I said earlier, All of this could have involved millions of years, waiting for this planet to cool down. By whatever means God began to choose, He had already planned that and informed His angelic hosts.

They are ministering spirits within the spirit world that scientists and evolutionists cannot probe. They do not have an instrument that can take a picture of a spirit. There is not an electronic gadget that can tap into the image of anything that exists, or the communication that goes on in the spirit world. When we see here, where man was driven from the beautiful garden that God planted eastward in Eden, it was not a situation where God took a stick and drove them out of a geographical territory. If you look at it right, between the Nile and the Euphrates, and those other points mentioned, that forms the Fertile Crescent. God did not drive them out of there. That is where He put the man in the first place. When He drove them out of the garden, He drove them out of that spiritual atmosphere, that environment of the spirit world, which was a little bit of heaven coming and touching a little spot on earth to begin our era of time. We have 65 million years up there on our chart, but I did not choose the 65 million years figure myself: That is the way many scientists put it out here for mankind. I believe that is long enough for us to look at and argue about what time life did begin to appear on the planet. It had to definitely cool down enough to accommodate life. As I have already said, However long that was, God had already planned with His angelic body how life, in its different microscopic forms, would begin to be introduced into the various surfaces of the soil that began to be formed back at that time, because we have to understand there has to be a beginning of life, both in plant life and then in other types of microscopic life, because it takes these two balanced together, working in harmony with the plan God has predetermined, to eventually climatize the planet for its intended inhabitants. It took all of that preparatory stage to build the surface into soil that could be functional, for the life in different forms that God was going put here. Every detail had to be just right.

Now I will do my best to read these things I have written down, because this will fill us in as we look between this point, the closing of the Ice Age, and coming into our era of time.

When God placed angels in charge of the earth, He gave them power and authority to carry out His predetermined plan. I know there is no scientist that will believe that. Maybe a lot of our religionists will not believe it either: That is up to them. Do not forget, you have too many scriptures in the Bible that let us know angels were tried, they were tested, and some of them failed their test. It is obvious, that somewhere prior to our existence they had already faced their choice and some of them chose to follow Lucifer instead of their Creator. That is why in our era of time some of that angelic host that was once perfect and righteous, are now referred to as demons, or devils, though there is only one devil. They work against us in what God has put us here for. The purpose of this was preparing the earth to accept life in its many forms. I want to say this, God is that life. Whatever forms of life that were eventually introduced to the planet, they were no accident. That was not hocus pocus. God had it all planned out and the angelic hosts knew exactly the way this was all going to be introduced, because God Himself is the life of every living thing. Outside of Him, there is no life. Even angels are a product and offspring of God Himself. There was much to be done as the planet had to be climatized. The various forms of life, microscopic, microbic, or whatever you want to call it, each thing was designed to function and eventually accomplish a certain thing in preparing the earth's surface for its intended purpose. When the earth did begin to grow vegetation in some places, it took bacterial life to break down the dead plant into food for whatever marine life was appearing in the waters. We must understand that the starting of life in any form had to be watched over with a calm objective. There was no devil hindering anything back then, because he had not yet made the choice to go up against the Creator. Everything had to work in harmony. Since everything was starting out in a very unclimatized beginning, what if there had been cannibals? What if everything was hostile against each other? We would never have reached this point in time. Hostile life and cannibalism did not start in the early years of the earth's beginning. The angels worked in harmony with God for a long period of time until the earth began to become well populated. The history of prehistoric times and archaeological discoveries show that on practically every major area of the planet where there is dry land, there are fossils, decayed, all kinds of forms of prehistoric life. In this process the earth began to become well populated by the gradual process of evolution. I want to say at this time, If we can look at this right, the word evolution, is not an evil word. It is not a derogatory word. It is a word that describes a process that a mastermind has chosen. It keeps man from messing with it. What man is there, that can create anything? Show me that man that can be subject to God and I will show you a man that can put God's mind into action. We read the Nahum prophecy, of things that are to be. For centuries that prophecy of Nahum lay there, seeing the lights, how they jostled one another on the broad ways and to travel like a flash of light. That is the only way the prophet could describe seeing our super highways today, in the spirit. What college or Bible school was there 150 years ago, that could train a young man or woman to the point where someone could say to them, Now look, the time has come that we need a car like such and such? Who knew what a car was, or what one would look like? Would it have one wheel, two, three wheels? As I described it, it took some young man somewhere that began to day dream. This is God taking part of His creation, and that is the man He made a little lower than the angels. He has invested in him a knowledge to fulfill His purpose. It looks crude sometimes, even very foolish. That is why most inventors, in their era, were looked upon as nuts, crazy, and everything else, but you and I are benefitting from their silly dreams, all because God is the one that gave the dream. God is the one that made them sit around thinking. What did they have their mind on? They were just thinking. If there are any other inventions that man is to benefit by, between here and the coming of Christ, rest assured, it is not yet written in a book what they will look like. It is not described as to what it will be, or its function. That day dreamer who will design them has not yet come upon the scene. With this in mind, let us continue looking at the animal kingdom. There came a time when in the animal kingdom, from one end of the planet to the other, there were all kinds of large, prehistoric life, and the entire earth was covered with giant forests with vegetation of all kinds. Go to the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest for a little look at some reminders of a prehistoric era. As you get out and walk over some of those places, you can see those giant pieces of rock that look like trees turned to rock, which at one time stood upright. Only the Lord knows how high they towered into the heavens. I read an article in The National Geographic magazine, how out in Oregon and Washington, the giant redwood trees can grow to a height of 200 feet. Then who knows what these trees grew to? Picture giant ferns, picture all kinds of vegetative life that began to show itself. Then the animals that were here. We might ask, why so large? Keep in mind, it was angels set in charge over them, to have dominion over them, to supervise the population and growth until this planet had reached the potential of God's purpose.

There were birds that had wings like bats, but they also had teeth. I am glad we do not have those creatures around anywhere today. We do have bats in various parts of the earth that resemble those: They are just on a smaller scale. Young mothers, how would you like to turn your little three year old tot out in the yard and have one of those giant birds come down, pick up the child and carry it off into the high cliffs of a mountain somewhere, to devour it? That is what happened in the final stage of the prehistoric era, when cannibalism, murder, killings of every description became the order of the day, those things began to devour each other. All of this life process continued harmoniously right on through until it reached a point in time where the angels had done their job and the animal kingdom had reached a point where in the mind of God it was acceptable, and the planet as a whole was acceptable. Then the angels were tested and were allowed to make their choice, whether they would remain faithful to the plan of the Creator, or be turned against His plan. This testing lasted until every angel that was going to fall had made the choice to follow Lucifer. They contributed to the plot of taking over the whole thing themselves, and turning it into a kingdom of their own. This lasted long enough until God saw that it had served its purpose in the testing. That is when He called a halt by judging the whole thing. There is no need of me repeating what I have previously said about what followed that. Therefore whatever we imagine the dinosaurs to have looked like, how large they were, it is a fact that on the face of the earth today, in various continents, you have species in a small dimension that represent them. As I said earlier, In the Amazon jungles of South America, there are two species of lizards that grow to four, five, or six feet in length. They are very hostile to each other. If they come in contact, they immediately lock in battle. That is what Walt Disney used back in the early 1950's. They captured two of these and brought them to Disney World in California. They made mock scenery where they wanted to shoot the battle scene. They turned the two lizards loose in that area to lock themselves in battle for a period of time. They used trick photography, then blew it up, and many of you have seen the results they obtained. They titled the film, The Fight of the Dinosaurs. That ought to teach us that when God gave man an animal kingdom, He did not take another bunch of mud and water, then sit down and role out legs and this and that. He resurrected a certain category of that animal kingdom. He knew exactly, before it ever happened, that man would fall. Prior to that time, Satan's fall did not come until that era had fulfilled its purpose. On the other hand, when we come to our era, we fall before we get started. I am saying at this time, Giant lizards, all kinds of cattle and creatures that you could ever imagine, from the giant mastodon elephant, which is larger than any we have today, and right on down, all these huge creatures were in existence on the planet in that prehistoric era. Somewhere all this animal life had been affected by this perversion process. I have already explained how that came about. In fact one of these birds, I believe it is out in a mountain region in Oregon, I was reading about some years ago, they found the skeleton of one of these giant dragon type birds. It has teeth. I believe it had a twenty some foot wing span. As they dug it out of the rock, they put it all together with wire. It was then hung in a museum. I am glad we do not have that type of birds flying around us today. We have bats in South America, Africa, all over the world. There are bats of different descriptions. Let us therefore take a look at our animal kingdom, because it all falls right in line. All life became extinct, but not all at once. We will say, in major places wherein God had judged the planet and the angels, and He cast them down, to bring a close to this era of what we call the prehistoric hour, life eventually came to a halt. In some places it was instantaneous. In other places where the cold was not as prevalent, life eventually did decrease until finally it was all gone. That is why Genesis 1 says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. You scientists and evolutionists, just go ahead and play with your time. It does not matter to me: There was a Creator that created all things; and He is the God that rules the universe. He does not live in time. Time moves in Him. Satan is referred to as the prince and power of the air, but he can only do what the great Creator allows him to do. In the 2nd verse of Genesis, the earth, the planet, was without form and void, and we can certainly understand why. That is exactly the way it looked, because God had judged its inhabitants. All of these scientists who want to think time just went right out of the prehistoric era right into our era without any interruption ought to check up on themselves: They have missed the boat and do not know it. We can reconcile Creation by a sovereign Creator, and then evolution among the created species with all of their actual discoveries, without compromising in any way, but their version of evolution is nothing short of just plain ignorance. Without a Master Planner, you do not get the kind of precision we see out here in the universe. When Jeremiah saw what he did, he saw the earth was dark and void, and that man was gone and the birds had taken flight, and that darkness was upon the face of the deep. All of that is easily understood when you give the Creator His proper place in it all. As we drove up the river road this morning coming to church I said to my wife, Look at the steam coming off of the water. The air is cold, the water is a little warmer, so it gives off that effect. I said, If we would just look at the 2nd verse of Genesis concerning this planet, with that in mind, it would be a lot easier to reconcile what we read there, "That darkness was upon the face of the deep," because God is the one that controls it all and He knew exactly how all of it would turn out. As that last Ice Age did set in, the environment around the planet was very cold, but the moisture, the water that had been here on the planet and been associated to the planet, just became a fog that the entire earth had been engulfed in. With ultraviolet rays heating this spot, the earth and atmosphere around it became darkness. Therefore when God spoke light, He did one thing to begin to cause the fog to dissipate and begin to clear the atmosphere, so that eventually, the sun that was always out there could begin to cast its ultraviolet rays of light onto the planet again, so that the rays could generate heat. Between the earth and there it is cold as can be, but it is those ultraviolet rays of light that strike the earth, that generate heat, that begins to cause life, such as planet life and other types of life, to begin to activate. I hope you understand what I have said in that particular lineup. It is not always easy to put what you see into words that can be easily understood. Our denominational religionists of today will take Genesis 1, the first day God did this, and the second day God did that, and third, the fourth, the fifth, the six, and on to the seventh where He rested, and make it sound like it was six days of twenty four hours. I believe we are going to see, as we go through this message, that it was not that way at all. That is not even the way the Bible reads, if you will think about it. That is just an assumption that far too many people hypothetically make. They project a religious tradition out here to religious people, and they expect you to fall over backwards believing it. If someone comes along that does not have their degree, or their stamp of approval, he is looked upon as a nut, or a devil, and they say, Don't listen to him: Get him out of here! Well I just happen to be one of those they say that about, because right there with those days of creation is where I want to focus our attention for a little while.