THE DAYS OF NOAH

In the beginning Adam was removed from the Garden. Yet Jehovah also knew that he could survive outside for his life time. As he began to have children they in turn multiplied until there were many Thousands of his descendents alive. Then a strange thing happened. Angles came down and materialized bodies for themselves and began to take human women as wives. The Bible says they took all whom they desired so they were very powerful and probably appeared godlike to the true humans. The children of those unions were called Nephilim and as time progressed the whole world was contaminated by these Nephilim and the violence that they brought. Strangely enough the discovery of fossils of what is described as Neanderthal man could just be the bones of the Nephilim. They were very tall, so as to be described as Giants or “mighty men of old men of fame”. They also were very Aggressive and perhaps even called themselves “sons of gods”. Eventually, no doubt the entire world of mankind, begin to be persuaded to believe that these “sons of the true God”, which were in fact Angles, were themselves gods.

            There were exceptions that did not accept the belief, Noah and his wife as well as his three sons. They believed that Jehovah would one day restore them to Paradise.

Then Jehovah spoke to Noah. What he said was no doubt astonishing to Noah. He told him that he was going to destroy everything alive upon the whole earth in another 120 years, because he felt regret that he had made mankind, and because of the violence in the earth. Only Noah and his wife, his 3 sons and their wives, found favor with Jehovah, he gave him instructions to make a large box, the size of which was daunting. 437’6” long by 218’9” wide and 43’9” high, with a raised window on the roof running the length of the box for ventilation and a door in the side large enough for the largest animals to enter. Also he was told to go and preach to those of the human family that would listen and perhaps save their lives, but none did, for they were busy “giving in marriage and being given in marriage”, in other words living their daily lives and no doubt defending themselves from the Nephilim but not taking any note of what Noah was trying to tell them.    This is an attempt to recreate the conditions that possibly existed at that time:

               Ja’pheth pressed his back against the mud bricks as the Nephalim pasted by; they had become so active lately that it was hard to move about. They were stopping any of the true humans and killing them. It seamed that they were trying to kill off all of the true humans. He skulked down the path until he came to the dwelling of Rac’el’s Father. He knocked three times. The door opened and he swept Rac’el into his arms.  “Darling”, He said, “We must leave soon the time is nearly up.”  Rac’el’s look was with Love and belief in her chosen man. Yet she was also afraid. Her father had told her that Noah and his sons were crazy. It was impossible for the sky to open up and pour forth water as Noah had been preaching for the last 120 years. 

            Noah stood up and stretched his back as he gazed up at the Ark. All that was left to do was the door and the Ark was finished. Shem and Ham were setting the frame in preparation for the door. He looked over at the boys and a father’s pride filled his heart. The only one he worried about was Japheth, he was having problems persuading his chosen wife to join him and even though he was the oldest he had not married yet. He worried every time Japheth went into the village where the “Sons to the true God” and the Nephilim were. He knew Methuselah’s grandson Ja’el and how much he opposed what He was doing. He also did not believe that Jehovah had spoken to Noah nor did he believe that Jehovah was going to do anything about what was going on in the earth. He believed that Jehovah did not care about the earth or what happened here anymore, after what Adam did, and that the earth was in the hands of the Sons of the True God.  Ja’el had even gone so far as to offer his two older daughters to them as wives. Rac’el had escaped because she was the youngest of his children and not old enough yet, but he had plans for her as well. He thought that he could curry favor with the false gods by his actions. Little did he know that it did him no good because the false gods consider him laughable? Yet, Rac’el has a good heart and truly loves Japheth and believes what he has been telling her about the Flood, I’m sure she will come soon.            

            The women were inside storing food stuffs in the storage area, making everything organized. From the amount of provisions for themselves and all the animals it was a monumental task in itself. Nuts, berries, fruit and all sorts of vegetation had to be prepared for storage so they would not spoil. Clay pots held many kinds of foodstuffs, mostly dried fruit. Heaps of bags containing grains and seeds of all kinds were stacked to the ceiling. You could smell the aroma coming from the Hay-mow full of Hay of many different grasses.  Sa’ri had been helping her husband gather the needed things for the Ark now for nearly 120 years and had been joined by first Lil’th then Jez’ra. They had really been a great help these last few years. She had great hopes for Rac’el’s joining them soon also. She had given up on her family’s ever listening to Noah and her. They were going after the way of the rest of the world in this new worship of false gods. Her heart was saddened that none of her family or Noah’s family or any of the girl’s families would listen. They were so busy with their petty wars and violence. Not that she and Noah hadn’t tried, they had spent many hours over the last 120 years preaching the coming deluge. Besides which, the Giant Ark was talked about throughout the whole world as a witness for them, but they dismissed it as the folly of a crazy old man. The idea that, large volumes of water were to come down from the sky, was viewed as the ravings of a lunatic. Still she believed in her husband with all her heart and believed all that he said.

            Shem and Ham finished fastening the last timber into place framing the door. They begin to pick up their tool and put things away. Tomorrow they would finish putting away the rest of the supplies and provisions. As they looked out, the countryside seemed to be alive with animals. Their father had already picked out the very best of his domestic clean animals 7 sets of Males and Females, but the 1 set of Male and Female of all the other animals was going to be a wonder to behold. Shem was thinking “I’ve never seen so many different kinds of animals. I don’t even know what some of them are.”  Jehovah had assured them that would take a pair of every kind of animal in the whole world. Gazing out he could see a large behemoth with a long snout and large curved tusks and he was very hairy.  He knew that they had built the Ark very strong but he was thinking that this animal would definitely be a ground floor beast. Of all the animals that intrigued Shem the most was the ape. It looked so much like the Nephilim that he and the other boys made hilarious jokes about it. In fact they thought the Apes were smarter and were even ‘whole’ in that they could have children. “Ha! Ha!” He thought.  The fact that the Apes were to survive and the Nephilim were not, also made him smile. He and the other boys had their run-in with the Nephilim and thanks to Jehovah had prevailed. Now they just avoided any contact with them and went the other way when they saw them coming. The only time they really had any problem was when they went preaching about the Deluge and the end of the present world for the Nephilim were always hanging around the villages terrorizing the residents. Yet people still would not see that this condition on the earth was not going to be endured by Jehovah any longer. Of course the people themselves were so violent, that it hardly mattered.  Ever since Grandfather La’mech died no one else on earth believed Father except Mother us boys and our loving woman. Father had grieved a long time for he was the last in the direct line back to Adam and of those that worshiped Jehovah as the true sovereign of the universe.

            Ham wanted to finish and mildly looked at Shem with irritation that he was daydreaming and not helping him clean up, but that was ok he was finished now anyway. He was always in a hurry especially when it was time to take his wife and retreat to their home for evening devotion to Jehovah and supper. It seamed that their family was the only one that was still showing a natural family love for one another. The natural family structure was breaking down and families were being so violent with each other that they killed with out thought or natural affection. Besides when he thought of Jez’ra all he wanted to do was go to where she was. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She was so dark skinned that she was almost black with black eyes and long straight black hair. Her skin was soft and smooth like lame skin. She perfectly matched his own dark skin and black tightly curled hair. They made a stunning couple where ever they went.

            The two boys finished up and walked over to where their father was standing. They stood and looked up at the Ark with him for a few moments and then Noah said, “Well boys it’s finished, now all we have to do is stable the animals.” They had been gathering  near the ark for the past month.  The men stood a few moments and then began walking towards the dwellings off in the distance.

            Lil’th and the other women had left the Ark site about an hour before the men and had prepared supper for them.  Seth kissed his wife as he came in and sat down at the table. They bowed their heads and thanked Jehovah for the food and began to eat. “Father says we stable the animals tomorrow.” Seth said. Lil’th responded. “Is everything really ready?”  “Yes the Ark is finished and stocked with provisions, a lot of provisions, enough to last a long time.” Seth said. He also included all the necessary tools to begin a new life. 

Seth gazed across the table at his Blond, fair skinned wife. One of the rare beauties of the pre deluged world and he was fortunate enough to have her as his wife. Yet, he loved her more for her steadfast adherence to the worship of Jehovah and for not following after the world and worshipping the false gods. 

Rac’el looked a Japheth with sorrow written in her eyes. “I’m all packed and ready to go. We must hurry before Father comes back.” From the resolute sound in her voice Japheth knew it was indeed time. When he looked at her he was again struck with the similarities between them, the same straight black hair, yellowish skin and strangely slanted eyes.  “Father told me today that he is going to present me to the false gods tomorrow.” Her voice was trembling. “We must leave tonight.”

They gathered up Rac’el’s things and opened the door. Looking both ways Japheth took the lead and hurriedly headed toward the Ark. He was sure that as soon as Rac’el’s father found her missing he would immediately come after her. The safest place would be in the Ark. Soon the dark shape of the Ark loomed ahead. He ran up the door which formed a ramp into the Ark. Rac’el was right behind him, they both stopped out of breath. Taking her hand he led her up the ramps to the 3^rd floor where the living quarters were.

He hurried down the path to the house, opened the door and said” Father you must come and marry us immediately, before Ja’el comes for Rac’el.”  Noah understood at once and without saying anything he and the whole family got up and followed Japheth.

Noah reminded the couple that Jehovah had created the woman, that she was presented to Adam and given to him as his wife. Jehovah also told them that from then on a man and a woman would leave their father and mother and become one flesh. Then he said. “I bless this marriage and now we will pray that Jehovah bless this marriage as well.” After the Prayer the family rejoiced and enjoyed the evening meal.   

The next morning the entire family was up at day break working as fast as they could stabling the animals that just kept coming by 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of unclean and wild animals. Ja’el and two very large Nephilim appeared at the edge of the clearing and Ja’el being the coward he was called out with a loud voice. “NOAH WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER?” Noah, whom was at the bottom of the ramp/door guiding the animals up, turned and said “She no longer is your daughter Ja’el she now is the wife of Japheth by Jehovah’s blessing last night.”    Ja’el turned bright red and turned to the Nephilim and shouted, “KILL THEM!” The two giants started forward but suddenly one of them stopped and for a second looked stupidly at the feathers sticking out of his chest then just slowly fell forward dead. The other giant turned and looked down at his brother then with rage on his face he turned back and began to run toward the family. Shem by this time had enough time to prepare another arrow but by this time Ham and Japheth intercepted the charging Nephilim with their spears which impaled him as he hurled himself stupidly onto them.

Seeing the two giants dispatched with such ease Ja’el now turned and fled back up the trail still shouting vows of revenge and obscenities. However the rest of the day was spent loading the animals taking brakes only to eat. Meanwhile they also posted one member of the family as a lookout just in case.

The family worked throughout the entire next 6 days settling the animals in. Nights also were spent working as the night loving animals kept coming also.

Finally by the morning of the 7^th day no more animals were coming and the family had gathered at the bottom of the ramp when suddenly two Sons of the true God appeared. They said “Noah take yourself, your wife, your three sons and their wives and go into the Ark.”

With that the family entered the Ark and as soon as they were in the two Sons of the true God lifted the huge tightly fitting door and inserted it into place.  They sealed it up with the bitumen left on hand for the purpose.

On the very day, no sooner had Noah and his family entered into the ark and Jehovah had sealed the door, when large drops of water began to fall on the earth. A crowd of villagers and Nephilim had gathered by the ark. They began to cry out to Noah and his family to open the door and let them in. By this time the water had begun to poor down from the sky. Noah climbed up to the tso’har window, the only opening in the giant Ark. He called down to the crowd “Go away I can not open the door it was closed and sealed by Jehovah’s hand.” Instead of listening to Noah however they began to bang on the side of the Ark with hands, sticks and stones.  Just then there was a severe shaking and a wall of water began to spew out from the ground. The villagers and Nephilim were not able to stand the quaking and the wall of water as it came and washed them away.

The Ark began to float and the eight people that were to restart the human race were safe inside.  They were to spend the next year living and taking care of all the animals. 

So now perhaps you have a small idea what it must have been like living before the flood.

Larry N. Kelly

Imperfection!

     As any, whom have read even a small amount of the Bible knows, there has only been two men who have been perfect or without imperfection. Yes, Jesus Christ for certain and of course Adam before he chose to disobey Jehovah. Other than that there have been NO man that has not been imperfect.

     As an example Abraham became impatient with Jehovah timing of his having children and ran ahead of Jehovah and begat Ishmael. The result of that action has caused much discord between the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac and has continued down to the very end of the system of things.

     Moses was a prime example of a righteous man whom was, in spite of that, also imperfect and on at least one occasion claimed Jehovah’s miracle for his own. He also would get very angry and even destroyed the first set of stone tablets that were a gift from Jehovah.

     David, the anointed king of Israel by Jehovah’s own hand was imperfect just the same. We all know the story of Bath Sheba and it needs no elaboration. Nor does his son Solomon for he was blessed by Jehovah with wisdom and knowledge yet failed in the end due to imperfection.

     At the time of Jesus he chose 12 men whom were to be the building blocks of the Kingdom Yet they were constantly having to be corrected by Jesus. There main issue? Which one was going to be the greatest in the Kingdom. Imperfect? Absolutely!

     Now did Jehovah use these men in spite of there imperfections? The answer is obvious. After all the Christian faith spread to the far corners of the known earth in the first and second centuries. Now the next question, Did Jehovah use imperfect men throughout the centuries since? The answer must be yes even men whom were still steeped in false worship. For instance over the years there have been men from time to time whom began to study with a clean heart and Jehovah used them to keep the Holy Scriptures save and protected. So yes Jehovah does use imperfect men.

     In the late part of the 19^th century one man began to look to the scripture and came to realize that he was living at a time when bible prophecy would begin to be fulfilled. He searched everywhere else as well. Was he perfect? No! He had many ideas that were way off base but he never stopped searching and Jehovah used that and him to spearhead the modern Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. At first they still had many pagan aspects to their worship but core truths began to immerge and Brother Russell continually updated his understand and slowly begin to lose everything that had pagan taint. As the rest of the remnant of Anointed emerged they too were used by Jehovah even in there imperfect state.

     And so it has continued down to this day, Jehovah uses all sorts of men to further HIS WILL. Fortunately allowing oneself to be used by Jehovah leads to blessings of spiritual understanding. If errors are made, they eventually are corrected, although perhaps not in our personal desired timeframe. Speaking for the entire Congregation of Jehovah’s People, There is not a single person whom will claim anything approaching perfection, merely a striving after perfection. I remember the song title “Its hard to be humble when your perfect in every way” I know the song is a tongue in cheek but unfortunately there are those whom truly feel this way and sometime they even are put in positions of authority where they do much damage. Again no one is perfect and looking at the organization as an entity, nether is it perfect, but Jehovah chooses to use it and the imperfect people, to proclaim His name world wide before the end comes and to try and turn hearts back to Jehovah for their salvation.

     The time is almost upon us for the destruction of Satan’s old system of things to make way for the New System. Revelation speaks about the destruction of an entity known as Babylon The Great by the Wild beast that she is riding upon. Daniel the 12^th chapter clearly points out that there would be another destruction upon the “holy people” and there “power” (also translated “hand”) would be dashed to pieces. It is no doubt that it will be a time of momentary confusion with the comfort of the whole congregation being removed and individuals will have to depend upon their faith in Jehovah. Shortly thereafter (perhaps in 1 ½ months) Armageddon itself comes, for Jehovah has said that the person lasting until then will be “happy.” Then and only then will the true fleshly perfection began with the assistance of the Kingdom of Christ. Faith may not be the gift of all men but for now imperfection is.

How long has it been really?

                     Well, the scriptures tell us that to Jehovah 1000 years equals one day. So we must obviously begin our calculation at some point. Now Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that it should have its beginning with 1914.

Thus: The formula is,

One day is to a thousand years as to x days is to # of years.

1 day =         x days

1000 ^y                93 ^y

x =

As you can see it is not very long by Jehovah’s standards.

While it is true that 93 years seems like a long time to us and perhaps many have said that the “generation” that saw the beginning of pangs of distress caused by Satan’s ouster from heaven, resulting from the war in heaven, that is mentioned in the 12^th chapter of Revelation, would not pass away until the end had been accomplished. But let me quote a couple of scriptures for you. Matthew the 24^th chapter is often quoted Verse 37 says: “For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.”  Now turn to Genesis 6:3 which says: “After that Jehovah said: “My spirit shall not act toward man indefinitely in that he is also flesh. Accordingly his days shall amount to a hundred and twenty years.”

     Alright let’s go back to the original understanding that we used to have and abandoned because it did not seem to fit the current understanding which was that in order to be of the “generation that saw the beginning of pangs of distress would by no means pass away until the end comes.” one would have to be about the age of 6 years in order to be sufficiently cognizant to “see” with eyes of understanding.

     So subtracting 6 years from 120, Jehovah himself had set the time limit, would leave 114 years. Add that to 1914 and you come up with the date 2028. Using this as a determination of the length of the last generation would mean that we would have at least 20 more years until Armageddon and still meet the prophecies concerning the last generation not passing away anytime soon.

     Now I am not going to be dogmatic about any such dating. Another fact however, is that the generation, and I believe that it is the Generation of Anointed in the Last Days, would be here through the Great Tribulation and be here, as in not passing away, until Armageddon starts or is about to start when they will then be caught away to be with the Lord for the battle.  

     Now people will immediately start to perhaps say “Here we go again with dates!” but I’m only trying to show that sometimes our view of things is limited by our very humanity.  Daniel himself indicated in the 4 chapter and the 17^th verse that the Kingdom, Jehovah was talking about, was not Nebuchadnezzar’s puny kingdom but His own for He told him that He would give it to whom He wanted to.  So the tree can only represent Jehovah’s Kingdom and the calculation to find out when the pangs of distress would start is found in Daniel also. The very fact that the world is in such dire straights and is only getting worse is the surest sign that we have. We can point to 1914 with confidence that the world changed after that and has been steadily panting on to the end. When the conditions are just right the attack against Babylon the Great will begin and will signal the beginning of the Great Tribulation.

     Until that happens the gathering work must be done to Jehovah’s satisfaction not ours and the final sealing of the Anointed. I believe that we are in for at least one last massive effort to collect as many into the ark as possible. May YOU be one of those that listens to the shout from the Tower and stays on the narrow and crooked path.

Larry N. Kelly

NEW JERUSALEM CALENDAR

     Why did I make this calendar? Well, I felt that the present secular calendar was insulting to our great creator and God, JEHOVAH, because it venerates pagan gods of many descriptions. The Idolatry bothers me greatly. Certainly JEHOVAH, the great time keeper, should be venerated. Also because the beginning of the Reign of the King JESUS CHRIST, has such great significance to all mankind, it seemed that a new calendar should begin on the day that he began to reign.

     It is not pleasing that YOU should keep on marking time for yourselves by the use of Idols. For JEHOVAH your God is a jealous God, in that he demands exclusive devotion.

     The gods of pagan nations are a detestable thing to JEHOVAH. Why should you cause adoration of them, by keeping them close to yourselves. Now is the time to put them away.

     You should begin to mark time a new way, one that would please JEHOVAH. And so now take for yourselves a new beginning.

     JESUS CHRIST the King is the new Creation and the new beginning of all mankind.

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-22.

I created this Calendar:

THE YEAR OF THE KING JESUS CHRIST 77 (1990-1991)

     This calendar begins on October 1, 1914. It consists of several facets:

12 Months of 30 days in length:

JUDAH                                        SIMEON

REUBEN                           LEVI

GAD                                             ISSACHAR

ASHER                                       ZEBULUN

NAPHTALI                       JOSEPH

MANASSEH                     BENJAMIN

     In order to bring the year into alignment with the solar year of 365.25 days, it was necessary to add some time:

     At the beginning of the 7th year, one month of 30 days was added called HEAVENLY. At the end of the 10th year, one month was added of 21 days, called EARTHLY. At the end of every 4th year one day was added called JEHOVAH'S DAY (JAH-DAY). Each year has a name that repeats every four years: the first year; LOVE, the second; WISDOM, the third; JUSTICE, the fourth; POWER.

     I therefore dedicate this calendar to the Creator and Almighty God JEHOVAH, The Great Timekeeper.