Dan_12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Independently from the Bible the time that we live, the twenty first century, has become known as the information age. How does this lineage of information begin? If you could build a time machine, that allowed you to move freely through time, and transported yourself to the 1600’s it would be like arriving in a land of intellectual giants in the forms of mortal men. Names like Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton, and James Ussher are some of the names that echo in the streets of the land. With each one making contributions that shape us into what we are today. Moving man, along through time, toward the last of days. A time when knowledge would be increased. Today, it is posable to access the accumulated knowledge of Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Ussher and all mankind from a device in the palm of your hand, anywhere with internet service. Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler are the two astronomers in our land of giants. Copernicus redefines our place in the solar system by moving human thought away from the earth centric (earth centered) model to a truer heliocentric (sun centered) system. The Earth and the other planetary bodies moving with clockwork motion and in perfect synchronization around the sun. Copernicus is often remembered for his words when he was arrested for heresy, “…but the Earth it does move.” This idea disrupted the very social fabric of the day because it was common knowledge that the Earth was the center of the universe and proposing different was punishable by death. Johannes Kepler’s direct observational data did not align with the new clockwork model of the solar system. This led to a redesigning of the revelation of the Copernic model to correctly define orbital paths as ellipses with a perigee and an apogee, not circles. Kepler recognized three principles involving orbital mechanics that he described as celestial harmonies, not laws, that demonstrate the nature of God and His design in the universe. Sir Isaac Newton lacking any accredited math that could express Kepler’s modifications to the Heliocentric model invents Calculus. Now, for the first time in human history it was possible to mathematically describe the motion of planetary bodies. It is this ability that enables us to launch a rocket into space and hit another planetary body like Mars. Independent from Kepler’s celestial harmonies Newton derives Three Laws of Motion. This is the birth of modern physic. Albert Einstein would latter push the Three Laws of Motion to the outer limits with the mathematical description of the curvature of space, time dilation and black holes. Einstein, while arguing with a colleague over the merits of the newly forming field of Quantum Mechanics, a field that Einstein helped bring forward, is quoted as saying, “God does not play dice with the universe.” However, it is the response that is more dynamic then the statement, it simply said, “Don’t tell God what to do with His dice.” Understanding these laws are why we have electricity, cars, air travel, television, radio, and planetary communication networks in the form of global internet coverage. It is the manipulation of these laws that make our rockets go zoom and our big bombs go boom. Abilities that define our culture. James Ussher is the last of the mortal giants. His name does not echo in time in the same fashion as the names of the other giants of the 1600’s, but his legacy is one that has left a mark in history that runs deep. Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656, Ussher was well respected among his peers. He held positions in government and in the religious community as well. A meticulous researcher, a competent mathematician an astronomer and an expert in Semitic languages, perhaps the most well rounded of all the giants. Ussher is most noted for exposing forgeries and frauds from the 1st and 2end century. Ussher, in no small part, would have played a role in safeguarding the purity of the biblical text we posse today in the 1611 King James Version Bible. James Ussher died in 1656 two years later in 1658 The Annals of the World was published with James Ussher’s creation calculations in it. It is this writing that Young Earth Creationist use as evidence of a newly born Earth originating on Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. Ussher was not alone in his estimation of the age of the world. Making the creation calculation was an intellectual pursuit of mortal men in the 1600’s. Johannes Kepler’s genesis of human history was 3,992 B.C. Sir Isaac Newton calculated an even 4,000 B.C. In the 1600’s a mir mortal could not ascend to the height of a giant without definitive works on the creation calculation. There is only twelve years difference among the three. In these cases, the basic methodology of the calculation is the same. Each used an anchoring point in history then began to work backward. James Ussher used the death of King Nebuchadnezzar as the anchor. All three ended up in chapter 5 of the great book of Genesis in Adams lineage. Each giant bringing with him, to chapter 5, their own social biases and preconceptions. Kepler’s credits in astronomy are undeniable, and rightly so. However, many of Johannes Kepler’s accolades are in the field of astrology (horoscopes). A field that, in the 1600’s, was intertwined with the new science of astronomy. He helped to rewrite the zodiac, while at the same time made moves to reduce the influence it played in real world affairs. For us in the information age the zodiac plays only a role in humor as a curiosity, but in the 1600’s it was understood that the zodiac was divinely inspired and well respected in the culture of the day. Isaac Newton is head and shoulders taller than any giant in the land. His renown is known by the inhabitance of the four quarters of the Earth. His ideas help to forge a new reality of cause and effect that we are the benefactors of. He is a Master of Mathematics, yet he is utterly blinded by his first love, biblical numeric. While experimenting with natural light and a prism he noted the color spectrum of visible light. Braking visible light into seven colors even though there are only six. Seven in biblical numeric means spiritual completeness, so it had to be seven, adjusting his data to make it fit into his spiritual understanding. His creation calculation was 4,000 B.C. The number 1,000 means divine completeness, four is representative of the Earth in biblical numeric. The Earth being divided in to four quarters, having four seasons with four cardinal directions. The meaning of 4,000 then becomes the Earth in its divine completeness. Isaac Newton knew the answer before he made his calculation and when his numbers where reviewed they all added up, again, altering his data to fit into his religious understanding of biblical numeric. What exactly did Ussher, and the other giants, determine with their creation calculation. The question that is asked is what is the time in years between Adam’s formation and the birthdate of Jesus? This interval can in no way be expressed as earth or world. The word 'âdâm (aw-dawm') has a dual meaning. It can indicate the entirety of the species or only one person. Mankind is a creation of the Sixth Day, (Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.) Mankind being the last thing ever created. The man Adam is not formed until after the day of rest, the Seventh. Gen 2:5 introduces a new man. (Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.) It is the man Adam (individual) that is then placed in a garden to till the ground. Making Adam the progenitor of all agriculturalist. The secular word used to describe the sixth day creation of man is paleolithic (old stone) man. The demarcation point into the next age is agriculture or Neolithic (new stone) age. The beginning point for the creation calculation is known, in the information age, as the agricultural revolution. It is this tiller of the ground that is the beginning of the flesh lineage that will become known as Israel leading to Jesus the Christ in the New Testament. In the 21 century it has become time to put away the preconceptions of old world, earth centric ideology. We live in the time that is forecasted in the book of Daniel and knowledge is expanded. This is not given as a negative, so to embrace the understanding is not sinful. We must use all we know to better understand the beginning and the end. Although many teach different in the Generation of the Fig Tree. mylittlebiblestudy.com