FIVE BIBLICAL CATASTROPHE HARMONIZATIONAL MODEL

Bernard E. Northrup Th.D.

Genesis 1:1

Complete creation of the heavens

And the earth.

Genesis 1:2,

Job 38:5-9,

Psa. 104:5-6

The first universal

flood

And darkness

Gen. 1:3-31

Six literal solar days of creation. God raised a single continent out of the sea.

Gen. 2-6 years

Adam

To

Noah

Genesis 7-9

The Second Universal flood and its slow retreat in Noah’s day

Gen. 10-11:1-9

Babel & the division of the Continents beginning 2 to 3 generations later

Gen. 12 to now and in Job.

Uplift of world’s mountains, See Job & Ice "age"

AZOIC

"ERA"

ARCHAEOZOIC

"ERA"

PROTEROZOIC

"ERA"

1,500 + YEARS!

PALEOZOIC

"ERA"

MESOZOIC

"ERA"

CENOZOIC

"ERA"

"In beginning God created the heavens & the earth."

This creation of the universe and the earth cannot be included within the six solar days. Gen. 20:11 actually says: "Six days the Eternal Lord worked upon the heavens & the earth…." (Heb.) This is the only place where the earth is created; therefore it must also be the time of the creation of the universe.

Geological Catastrophe

# One

The universal Pre-Adamic Flood that burst forth out of the crust of the earth and universally covered the newly created earth, depositing strata without any fossils. There was no prior creation of lifeforms on earth (apart from the angelic hosts). Job 38:4-11, Psalm 104:4-5. This Psalm clearly chronologically considers the successive events found in Genesis chapter one.

Geological Catastrophe # Two

On the third solar day, after gradual elevation of the canopy to where solar days were observable to the Divine Author, the Creator abruptly elevated a great single continent out of the sea. Note "…and let the waters under the heavens be gathered unto one place" (1:9). Runoff from the continent deposits the continentally derived Proterozoic around its edge.

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N O

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V F

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R R S M

A I

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Y

(only

part has

survived)

Geological Catastrophe

# Three

The flood began in the ocean bottoms [cf. Cambrian deposits]. Signs of shoreline encroachment in Ordovician-Silurian. Flood stabilization in Mississippian but initial retreat signs in upper Mississippian. The wind and tidal oscillations of Gen. 8:1-3 continue well into the Mesozoic deposits until obliterated by plate movement tsunami. Slow retreat is suggested by Gen. 11:2.

 

 

Geological Catastrophe

# Four

The major characteristic deposits of this series are wind and tidal wave deposits. These result from the long retreat. The wind and shoreline oscillations of Gen. 8:1-3. Five generations after the Noahic flood God complemented that done at Babel by dividing the continents, further separating migrating, fallen man on the moving plates. Plate movement produced the great diastrophism that occurred in Mesozoic time. Gen.11:18-23 names suggest catastrophism.

GEOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE # FIVE

Enormous heat release of plate movement filled atmosphere with steam and ash from great volcanic vents, transformed the albedo of the atmosphere, thus reflecting solar energy & producing steady drop of temperature during Cenozoic time, climaxing in the Biblical, Pleistocene ice epoch that is thoroughly described by an observer, the patriarch Job.