Authored by Tara Macisaac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
According to our conventional view of history, humans have only walked the Earth in our present form for some 200,000 years. Much of the mechanical ingenuity we know of in modern times began to develop only a couple hundred years ago, during the Industrial Revolution. However, evidence today alludes to advanced civilizations existing as long as several thousand years ago—or possibly even earlier.
“Oopart”—or “out-of-place artifact”—is the term given to numerous prehistoric objects found in various places across the world today that show a level of technological sophistication incongruous with our present paradigm.
Many scientists attempt to explain these ooparts away as natural phenomena. Yet others say that such dismissive explanations only whitewash over the mounting evidence: that prehistoric civilizations had advanced knowledge, and this knowledge was lost over the ages only to be developed anew in modern times.
We will look at a variety of ooparts here, ranging from millions to hundreds of years old in purported age, but all supposedly demonstrating advancement well beyond their time.
Whether these are fact or merely fiction we cannot say. We can only offer a glimpse at what’s known, supposed, or hypothesized regarding these phenomena, in the spirit of being open-minded and geared toward real scientific discovery.
17. 2,000-Year-Old Batteries?
Clay jars with asphalt stoppers and iron rods made some 2,000 years ago have been proven capable of generating more than a volt of electricity. These ancient “batteries” were found by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig in 1938, just outside of Baghdad, Iraq.
“The batteries have always attracted interest as curios,” Dr. Paul Craddock, a metallurgy expert at the British Museum, told the BBC in 2003. “They are a one-off. As far as we know, nobody else has found anything like these. They are odd things; they are one of life’s enigmas.”
16. Ancient Egyptian Light Bulb?
A relief beneath the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt, depicts figures standing around a large light-bulb-like object. Erich Von Däniken, who wrote “Chariot of the Gods,” created a model of the bulb which works when connected to a power source, emitting an eerie, purplish light.
15. Great Wall of Texas
In 1852, in what is now known as Rockwall County, Texas, farmers digging a well discovered what appeared to be an ancient rock wall. Estimated to be some 200,000 to 400,000 years old, some say it’s a natural formation while others say it’s clearly man-made.
Dr. John Geissman at the University of Texas in Dallas tested the rocks as part of a History Channel documentary. He found they were all magnetized the same way, suggesting they formed where they are and were not moved to that site from elsewhere. But some remain unconvinced by this single TV-show test and call for further studies.
Geologist James Shelton and Harvard-trained architect John Lindsey have noted elements that seem to be of architectural design, including archways, linteled portals, and square openings that resemble windows.
14. 1.8-Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor?
In 1972, a French factory imported uranium ore from Oklo, in Africa’s Gabon Republic. The uranium had already been extracted. They found the site of origin to have apparently functioned as a large-scale nuclear reactor that came into being 1.8 billion years ago and was in operation for some 500,000 years.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, former head of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel Prize winner for his work in the synthesis of heavy elements, believed it wasn’t a natural phenomenon, and thus must be a man-made nuclear reactor.
For uranium to “burn” in a reaction, very precise conditions are needed. The water must be extremely pure, for one—much purer than exists naturally. The material U-235 is necessary for nuclear fission to occur. It is one of the isotopes found naturally in uranium. Several specialists in reactor engineering have said they believe the uranium in Oklo could not have been rich enough in U-235 for a reaction to take place naturally.
13. Sea-Faring Map Makers Before Antarctica Was Covered in Ice?
A map created by Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis in 1513, but sourced from various earlier maps, is thought by some to depict Antarctica as it was in a very remote age before it was covered with ice.
A landmass is shown to jut out from the southern coastline of South America. Captain Lorenzo W. Burroughs, a U.S. Air Force captain in the cartographic section, wrote a letter to Dr. Charles Hapgood in 1961 saying that this landmass seems to accurately show Antarctica’s coast as it is under the ice.
Dr. Hapgood (1904–1982) was one of the first to publicly suggest that the Piri Reis map depicts Antarctica during a prehistoric time. He was a Harvard-educated historian whose theories about geological shifts earned the admiration of Albert Einstein. He hypothesized that the land masses shifted, explaining why Antarctica is shown as connected to South America.
Modern studies refute Hapgood’s theory that such a shift could have taken place within thousands of years, but they show it could have happened within millions of years.
12. 2,000-Year-Old Earthquake Detector
In 132 A.D., Zhang Heng created the world’s first seismoscope. How exactly it works remains a mystery, but replicas have worked with a precision comparable to modern instruments.
In 138 A.D., it correctly indicated that an earthquake occurred about 300 miles west of Luoyang, the capital city. No one had felt the quake in Luoyang and dismissed the warning until a messenger arrived days later, requesting aid.
11. 150,000-Year-Old Pipes?
Caves near Mount Baigong in China contain pipes leading to a nearby lake. They were dated by the Beijing Institute of Geology to about 150,000 years ago, according to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.com.
State-run media Xinhua reported that the pipes were analyzed at a local smeltery and 8 percent of the material could not be identified. Zheng Jiandong, a geology research fellow from the China Earthquake Administration, told state-run newspaper People’s Daily, in 2007, that some of the pipes were found to be highly radioactive.
Jiandong said iron-rich magma may have risen from deep in the Earth, bringing the iron into fissures where it may have solidified into tubes; though he admitted, “There is indeed something mysterious about these pipes.” He cited the radioactivity as an example of the strange qualities of the pipes.
10. Antikythera Mechanism
A mechanism often referred to as an ancient “computer,” which was built by Greeks around 150 B.C., was able to calculate astronomical changes with great precision.
“If it hadn’t been discovered … no one would possibly believe that it could exist because it’s so sophisticated,” said Mathematician Tony Freeth in a NOVA documentary. Mathias Buttet, director of research and development for watch-maker Hublot, said in a video released by the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, “This Antikythera Mechanism includes ingenious features which are not found in modern watch-making.”
9. Drill Bit in Coal
John Buchanan, Esq., presented a mysterious object to a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on Dec. 13, 1852. A drill bit had been found encapsulated in coal about 22 inches thick, buried in a bed of clay mixed with boulders about 7 feet thick.
The Earth’s coal is said to have formed hundreds of millions of years ago. The Society decided that the instrument was of a modern level of advancement. But it concluded that “the iron instrument might have been part of a borer broken during some former search for coal.”
Buchanan’s detailed report did not include any signs that the coal surrounding the instrument had been punctured by drilling.
8. 2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres?
Spheres with fine grooves around them, found in mines in South Africa, have been said by some to be naturally formed masses of mineral matter. Others have said they were precisely shaped by a prehistoric human hand.
“The globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel,” said Roelf Marx, curator of the museum of Klerksdorp, South Africa, according to Michael Cremo’s book, “Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race.” Marx said the spheres are about 2.8 billion years old.
If they are mineral masses, it is unclear how exactly they formed.
7. Iron Pillar of Delhi
This pillar is at least 1,500 years old but could be older. It remains rust-free and is of astounding purity. It is 99.72 percent iron, according to professor A.P. Gupta, head of the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities at the Institute of Technology and Management in India.
In modern times, wrought iron has been made with a purity of 99.8 percent, but it contains manganese and sulfur, two ingredients absent in the pillar.
It was made at least “400 years before the largest known foundry of the world could have produced it,” wrote John Rowlett in “A Study of the Craftsmen of Ancient and Medieval Civilizations to Show the Influence of their Training on our Present Day Method of Trade Education.”
6. Viking Sword Ulfberht
When archaeologists found the Viking sword Ulfberht, dating from 800 to 1000 A.D., they were stunned. They couldn’t see how the technology to make such a sword would have been available until the Industrial Revolution, 800 years later.
Its carbon content is three times higher than other swords of its time and impurities were removed to such a degree that the iron ore must have been heated to at least 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
With great effort and precision, modern blacksmith Richard Furrer of Wisconsin forged a sword of Ulfberht quality using technology that would have been available in the Middle Ages. He said it was the most complicated thing he’d ever made, and he used methods not known to have been used by people of that time.
5. 100-Million-Year-Old Hammer?
A hammer was found in London, Texas, in 1934, encased in stone that had formed around it. The rock surrounding the hammer is said to be more than 100 million years old.
Glen J. Kuban, a vocal skeptic of claims that the hammer was made millions of years ago, said the stone may contain materials that are more than 100 million years old, but that doesn’t mean the rock formed around the hammer so long ago.
He said that some limestone has formed around artifacts known to be from the 20th century, so concretions can form fairly quickly around objects. (Concretions are masses of hardened mineral matter).
Carl Baugh, who was in possession of the artifact, has said the wooden handle has turned to coal (evidence of its great age) and that the metal its made of has a strange composition. Critics have called for independent testing to verify these claims, but so far no such testing has been conducted.
4. Prehistoric Work Site?
Workers at a stone quarry near Aix-en-Provence, France, in the 18th century, came across tools stuck in a layer of limestone 50 feet underground.
The find was recorded in the American Journal of Science and Arts in 1820 by T. D. Porter, who was translating Count Bournon’s work, “Mineralogy.”
The wooden instruments had turned into agate, a hard stone. Porter wrote: “Everything tended to prove that this work had been executed upon the spot where the traces existed. The presence of man had then preceded the formation of this stone, and that very considerably since he was already arrived at such a degree of civilization that the arts were known to him, and that he wrought the stone and formed columns out of it.”
As stated in the case of the hammer above, limestone has been known to form relatively quickly around modern tools.
3. Million-Year-Old Bridge?
According to ancient Indian legend, King Rama built a bridge between India and Sri Lanka more than a million years ago. What appears to be remnants of such a bridge have been seen from satellite images, but many say its a natural formation.
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My guess is since every civilization has a great flood myth, the magnetic pole flip they talk about that happens every so often, shakes this little water bowl once in a while cleansing and burning the crap that has grown in the surface, we are probably due one soon maybe that’s why elites have been acting in such a hurry lately to milk everything the can out of us..
If I was a billionaire I would be having expedition to dig up under the Sahara desert, I think the next finds will come from out there
Antarctica.
Def that as well
The Library Of Alexandria was referred to as the accumulation of all human
knowledge up to that time. A vast agglomeration of what we knew about everything we could.
It was of course burned to ashes by barbarians bent on erasing what they could not
produce or understand.
Sound familiar?
Nothing is new under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes
Click on the book if interested in reading the Preface:
Now you are getting to something dreamed up by Scofield just to appease the evolutionist.
Seriously, it is the first step to saying maybe something is impossible for God the Father.
Luke 1:37
‘For with God nothing shall be impossible.’
On a side note, how you like that double negative? Adds a finality to that statement in so little words. Can only imagine that the English taught in school these days that 80% of the graduates can not read that and understand it.
Ginger!
Ha…so I have finally gone too far for the intrepid Ginger in my pot stirring (smile).
I am never dogmatic about the big mysteries/controversies Ginger as I am always open to be proven wrong…just because I already have been so many times in life.
For the record I am no fan of the Scofield Bible or Pre-Trib…but I find the evidence of Pre-Adamic races indisputable…and the Gap the most plausible explanation for now.
THE PRE-ADAMIC RACE GAP THEORY EXPLAINS IT ALL
Here is some interesting background:
“Gap creationism was popularized by Thomas Chalmers, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, founder of the Free Church of Scotland, and author of one of the Bridgewater Treatises, who attributed it to 17th century Dutch Arminian theologian Simon Episcopius.
Other early proponents included Oxford University geology professor and fellow Bridgewater author William Buckland, Sharon Turner and Edward Hitchcock. It gained widespread attention when a “second creative act” was discussed prominently in the reference notes for Genesis in the influential 1917 Scofield Reference Bible.
In 1954, a few years before the re-emergence of Young Earth Flood geology eclipsed Gap creationism, influential evangelical theologian Bernard Ramm wrote in The Christian View of Science and Scripture.”
The pre-Adamic race GAP theory explains it all:
1. Where lost souls come from?
2. Where the demons come from?
3. When did Satan fall from the Heavens?
4. How did 1/3 of the angels fall with Satan?
5. Why does the Bible tell us TWO creation stories?
6. Why was earth created staple and void (this brings to perspective flat earth vs a globe as well)?
7. Why does the Bible tell us TWO flood narratives?
8. Age of earth?
9. The disappearing of the dinosaurs and why where no dinosaurs in Noah’s ark?
10. The whole doctrine of Original sin and its coming into man’s flesh?
Just try to explain the above without pre-Adamic race GAP theory and you will see for yourself…
Consider this:
The famous paleontologist G.G. Simpson once remarked: “The most puzzling event in the history of life on the earth is the change from the Mesozoic Age of Reptiles, to the … Age of Mammals. It is as if the curtain were rung down suddenly on a stage where all the leading roles were taken by reptiles, especially dinosaurs, in great numbers and bewildering variety, and rose again immediately to reveal the same setting but an entirely new cast, a cast in which the dinosaurs do not appear at all, other reptiles are supernumeraries and the leading parts are all played by mammals of sorts barely hinted at in the previous acts” (Life Before Man, 1972, p. 42).
This reflects the change from the pre-Adamic world to the world of man. Certainly there are smaller reptiles in our world, but they are insignificant in comparison to what existed in the previous age.
THE PRE-ADAMIC WORLD: by Celeste B. April 18, 2018 (This lady is worth the time)
https://shepherdsheart.life/blogs/news/pre-adamic-world
Who was Cain afraid of when he was sent out of the garden? Who was in the land of Nod that he feared would kill him? Why did God mark Cain so that he would not be killed? killed by whom?
Boogie- Cain went into the Land of Nod and found his wife. The obvious answer is his mother-in-law. 🙂
obviously 😂
I’m always interested in discussing Biblical mysteries, but at the end of the day I always measure these discussions with how Jesus The Christ could have been judged for all the sins that just I have committed in my lifetime, and this almost two thousand years ago. Faith is the only thing I can hang onto.
There are who knows how many dimensions going on around us, battles of the supernatural that HP Lovecraft could not dream of. Before coming to know the Lord Jesus I had several encounters with what are known as a ‘ghost’, and they were not the friendly types.
I would like to hear more about this as I grew up in a haunted house myself. If you want email me: samthere403@gmail.
Tried your email.
Will write on here a little later, have got to read Mark’s note(more like War and Peace) below.
Yea, its long…but worth your time…Spiritural War is not a bumper sticker Sister in Christ ‘intrepid’ one.
I didn’t get your email. I posted the following story on another thread here and will do the best I can again. The house I grew up in was built by my GF who died shortly after. The house was a 3 story with 2 rooms on the third story and an attic above. I’m not sure when it was built but probably early 1900’s. Anyway, I was a toddler when what I’m about to say happened and I wasn’t aware of it until by brother told me a few years ago. The house was struck by lightning twice on two separate occasions. As a toddler I can still remember the fireman going up the stairs to the third floor. My brother told me that the second strike caused every scrap of plaster (not plaster board) to be blown off the walls and ceiling in the one room on the third floor. He told me that it wasn’t blown all over the room like you’d expect. It was all piled up in the center of the room. Like I said earlier, there were many experiences our family had and I’m not sure if something blew a hole into our dimension from that lightning strike.
When is the first baseball game mentioned in the Bible?
In the big inning.
Ginger,
I didn’t call you ‘intrepid’ for nothing…you are always worth reading and your sweet spirit always shines through.
Ok…check this out.
MY SPTIITUAL WARFARE: Part One
Since my salvation and the indescribable experience of Jesus Christ answering a broken, desperate sinners trembling prayer on May 26th 1993, I have had three intense spiritual confrontations with the enemy: two attacks and a dramatic instantaneous healing that can only be described as hand to hand spiritual warfare. As the most recent experience is as fresh in my mind as only a vivid encounter with the Holy Spirit can be. I want to pour out on this computer screen some of what has happened to me from 1997 to 2001.
I remain amazed by these incidents and overwhelmed by the faithfulness and protection of my Lord and my God, Jesus Christ. I pray for his guidance in writing this. I pray this essay will be built by words that will be written in truth, a fearless unashamed transparent and reveling truth, and a truth that can only come when you invite Christ to take up residence in your heart.
In November of 1997 the initial reality of this invisible warfare found me a 47-year-old (3-year and 6-month old) teenage Christian. Initially I was unprepared and shocked, over the first incident I will attempt to describe. As I wrestled with what had happened the reality left a sickening chill seeping into my thoughts. At first, I struggled sorting out this unexplainable encounter, but soon I embraced the wonder of what had happened. Then I realized I was becoming a threat to the enemy. Maturing as a Christian I found the power of God’s word was all I needed to fight, win, and be more than a conquer when attacked. This poem by a fellow Christian is taped on my computer screen at home.
My orders are to fight;
Then if I bleed or fail.
Or strongly win what matters it?
God only doth prevail.
The servant craventh naught
Except to serve with might
I was not told to win or lose;
My orders are to fight
The second I read those words I knew this poem was to be my battle cry as my witness for Christ drew fire from the enemy as I wrestled with the threatening evil of spiritual attacks, the healing and the assurance that followed.
I don’t know how common or rare these type spiritual experiences are. I had read about spiritual warfare in the bible, in Christian books, and heard some testimony but never really understood it until I experienced it. For years I was reluctant to discuss my own encounters with anyone but my wife and a few close Christian friends. My hesitancy came initially from an inability to articulate the vivid intensity of these experiences, and a fear of sounding like a man who is seeing darkness in shadows and reality in dreams.
After four years and three incidents, the power and pattern of what has happened to me leaves no doubt in my heart that Paul’s statement in Ephesians 6:12 describes these attacks.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
One unattended result of these attacks and the healing is they have made me stronger as a follower of Christ. This must be why God has allowed their fire to temper me. These experiences have opened my eyes to the reality of spiritual warfare, the power of prayer, and the final, undeniable, irresistible sovereignty and offensive power of the sword of the spirit, God’s word.
I realize now, years later, each attack has a common denominator. Each has really been a desperate lashing out by a defeated foe, an angry, bitter, seething, spiteful, counter-attack by the enemy. All three incidents (this is just about the first) have taken place after I have gone on the offense with prayer, helped spread the gospel, under conviction made Christian changes in my life, become involved in church ministries, and all the while delved deeper and deeper into the Bible and the unfolding, unending mystery of the triune God.
As an experienced investigator who has peeled away the layers of many complex cases and a writer who loves the clarity and power of the written word, I hope to chronologically describe these three incidents and accomplish two goals:
1. Reconstruct them in the context of careful, clear, analytical thought and order.
2. Bring life to their emotional patchwork through the weaving of the descriptive essay.
As a believer I am striving also to record these events of my continuing born again wonder, as God covers me within the cleft of the rock.
The Setting
As an angry, proud, stupid fool, I had intentionally turned my back on Christ for twenty-two years, from the age of 21 to 43. The precise moment and reasons for this sinful stupidity are grist for another essay’s mill. When the first spiritual attack occurred it had been three years and six months since my solitary, dramatic, and radical Holy Spirit induced conversion experience at the age of 43. Angry, proud fools often require an intense event driven conversion. To quote a movie character, Forest Gump, Stupid is as stupid does.
One of my first prayers as a brand new Christian in 1993 had been for God to lead me to a Church I could grow in. A church my wife and daughter and I could be a part of. I had never known that experience in my entire life, but as I realized I had actually been Born-Again, I knew my family and I needed spiritual guidance. I hungered for a church home for the three of us.
That prayer was answered when we moved and I found a small but committed group of believers just around the corner and down the street from the house we moved into. At the time of this first incident I had been a member for two years and nine months. My spiritual growth had been strong and steady. I was actively and eagerly involved in many ministries within the church: greeting, drama, out-reach programs, and a men’s Promise Keepers home group that I had organized and that had just starting meeting in my home. I had found my place among a wonderful body of believers, a Biblical, dynamitic, alive and growing church. The study of God’s word was becoming my passion as I devoured the Bible, the weekly sermons from our Senior Pastor, Christian books, Christian books on tape, Christian radio and Christian magazines.
I couldn’t get enough, anything and everything Christian I wanted in my life. Through this church the Promise Keepers movement was also influencing me. In 1995, 96, and 97 I attended PK conventions with men from the church that accelerated and deepened my faith. In the spring of 97 my church’s Promise Keepers Men’s Group was meeting twice a month in my home for over six months. Even though I often took a step back in this tough challenging Christian walk, it usually was after two steps forward…I was still left one step closer to Christ! My faith was steadily changing me from the inside out and I knew I would never go back to the meaninglessness of a life without the living God, Jesus Christ.
November 1997
Taking a class at Church given by a fellow Believer, based on the book, The Bondage Breaker, by Dr. Neil Anderson; opened my eyes to troubling thoughts and emotions I had been silently struggling with my entire life. I eagerly read and re-read chapters of the book recognizing there were many sinful issues and strong holds in my life I was only beginning to understand. At the age of 47 but only a Christian for a little over three years, I was entering a more mature phase of my faith and this wonderful book was exposing me to tactics Satan had used to deceive, blind, ensnare, and tear me down since I was a young boy.
The evening I finished the book was the week before thanksgiving, 1997. It was about 9:30 PM and I was alone reading in our bedroom. My wife was in the living room watching TV and our twenty-year-old daughter was living on her own in an apartment with two girlfriends. At the back of the book were various prayers. When my eyes read the one titled, Cleansing Home/Apartment, I closed the bedroom door, got down on my knees and prayed the following words out loud with a fervent heart felt emotion:
Heavenly Father. We acknowledge that you are Lord of heaven and earth. In your sovereign power and love, you have given us all things to richly enjoy. Thank you for this place to live. We claim this home for our family as a place of spiritual safety and protection from all the attacks of the enemy. As children of God seated with Christ in the heavenly realm, we command every evil spirit claiming ground in the structures and furnishings of this place based on the activities of previous occupants, to leave and never to return. We renounce all curses and spells utilized against this place. We ask you, Heavenly Father, to post guardian angels around this home to guard it from attempts of the enemy to enter and disturb your purposes for us. We thank you, Lord, for doing this, and pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
When I finished praying I felt lighter. It was as if I had thrown off some unwanted, excess baggage I had been dragging behind me. I thought about our move to North Carolina and this new home. It was the first house we lived in since I became a Christian. Everything had been new when we moved in, a new home, in a new state, a new church, a new job, but most important of all, I had a new heart. And now a lighter heart with another compartment cleaned out. I felt sadly reflective as I re-read the pray and mulled over my past that brought me to this point at 47. I was determined to continue down the path I knew God was guiding me, no matter how many regrets lined the sides taunting me. I knew the accusations were from the enemy, AND MY ORDERS WERE TO FIGHT!
My wife came to bed about a half hour later. I was still reading the Bondage Breaker. It was the Thursday before Thanksgiving and we were both sound asleep by 11:00 PM. The fall night was cool but not cold. There were no clouds and the glow of the moon bathed our backyard. Tall trees thickly surround our cul-de-sac home and the ground was covered with a thick layer of dry dead leaves. If even a squirrel scurried about, the sharp crunching allowed you to follow the sound of the direction they hopped in. Our three-story home is built on a steep slope and the master bedroom is on the second floor in the southwest corner. Behind our short gently sloping backyard and sixty feet past the bedroom window was a stream and a steep slope up the opposite bank that led up to five acres of deep woods. It was a cool still night, and we slept with the window open.
BANG BANG! Two sharp cracks exploded just outside our window! I bolted up, and before I was fully awake tensely screamed to my wife to get down on the floor, someone was shooting into the house! She was confused and I yelled at her a second time before she rolled off the bed onto the floor. As we sat on the floor on opposite sides of the bed I glanced at my clock radio. It was exactly 3:00 AM.
As a former M-60 machine gunner in the Marine Corps infantry, and a Vietnam Veteran, who had survived two devastating ambushes, I had been around a great deal of sudden gunfire at night, my exaggerated 0 dark thirty hair trigger-startle reflex has been on autopilot since 1969. Although it was twenty-eight years since I was in combat I knew we were under some type of attack in our home! I was past shock or anger, an old familiar icy calm filled me. Scrambling to put on a pair of pants I jerked out the Dan Wesson 357 under the bed. I grabbed a flashlight and told my wife I was going outside and to wait to call the police. I did not intend to hide in fear in my own home and I didn’t want a nervous cop mistaking me for an armed bad guy. All the while I was listening intensely, not a sound, not a rustle of a single leaf reached my ears since the two explosive bangs that had ripped into my house moments earlier.
I didn’t know what had happed. What had made the tremendous double banging noises just outside our window, but I intended to find out in a few seconds. Was someone shooting into the house? Hurling rocks against it? Why wasn’t the window shattered? I snatched my keys and told my wife I was locking the front door behind me and to be ready by the phone to call the police if she heard a struggle or gunfire. We had never turned a light on and I knew who ever had done this was still somewhere behind my house, otherwise I would have heard them moving through the thick layer of fallen leaves that was everywhere. Darting out the front door I came slowly around the corner of the front of the house in a half crouch, crunching through the layer of dead leaves, pausing every few seconds… listening intensely for the sound of someone moving, running through the yard, or the woods behind my home…ready to give chase…silence. I knew I was advertising my arrival with my crunching but I also knew I could hear even the slightest opposing movement and so far there was none. The night was moon bright, still, and silent. Making my way in spurts out of the deep shadows along the west side of my house in a low crouch I came into the backyard, flashlight now on, pistol at the ready. I immediately saw the bottom two stories worth of my white drainpipe (that ran the full height of my three story house just outside our bedroom window) lying on the ground.
What had caused this? There wasn’t even a breeze and the night was almost cloudless, there wasn’t a storm. This doesn’t make sense? I circled the house three times, nothing. I searched the path in the woods behind my home, nothing. Ankle deep leaves were everywhere; you could not step in any direction without loud crunching, yet I had never heard a sound the second after the two loud cracks had startled us awake.
I stayed awake the rest of the night, slipping outside two more times to prowl around the house with as much stealth as the dead leaves would allow. I saw and heard no one.
The next morning I was able to analyze the drainpipes in daylight before I went to work.
There were three sections connected one for each story of the house. Each section had been nailed into the house, the first two sections nailed into brick. Both nails that attached the bottom two sections of drainpipe were still intact and still protruding from the brick. The top third floor section was still attached to the house. The first nail was about six and a half feet from the ground and the second was about eighteen feet from the ground, both under our bedroom window. Examining the drainpipe sections that were thrown away from the house, you could see the tremendous force that had been used to rip the two-story section of drainpipes from the house. The metal on the backside were the nails had been drilled in was ripped out with the force of an EXPLOSION!
When I came back in trying to figure out what had happened, how eighteen feet of drainpipe had EXPLODED off my house with such force that it sounded like two gunshots my wife told me something that super shocked me a second time.
“Mark, something else happened last night that has never happened to me before.” She looked at me a little nervous.
“What are you talking about?” I asked.
“I had a nightmare just before the two explosions…a nightmare I’ve never had before.” Now she looked scared.”
“What was it about, what did you dream?” I asked.
She hesitated and stepped towards me, I hugged her and stroked her hair. “What was it baby?”
“Last night I dreamt that Satan was in the house and it was terrible, I never have never had a nightmare like that before, In my dream I…I screamed for him to get out of our house and then we were woken up by that terrible noise.”
I hadn’t told her about the prayer from the Bondage Breaker. I went and got the book and read the prayer aloud to her and then we hugged one another and prayed.
I told two friends and close fellow church members about what had happened. One did repairs on homes and reattached the drainpipes for me. He said it was impossible for a man to yank off both drain pipes with his hands in that manner and without a ladder. I examined the drainpipe on the other side of the house, it was nailed into the brick at similar spots as the drainpipe that had been ripped out and tossed back fifteen feet. I tried to yank it out with all my strength and found it creaking and giving way half an inch but slowly, and groaning as it did. The force that the other one had been ripped off the house with was more explosive then any man could ever have done, plus we would have immediately heard anyone running away through the layer of leaves.
I went to see my Pastor and told him the story. We prayed together.
I did not see the angelic spiritual warfare that raged in and around my home that night while my wife and I slept, after I came to the Lord with that heart felt prayer from the Bondage Breaker. I do not know what hold the enemy had in that dwelling, or why my wife dreamed of Satan’s presence in our home moments before two stories of drainpipes were ripped off my home with hurricane force.
All I know is God is faithful and when I came to him on my knees, a broken repent full man who had started the life long process of cleaning out his heart when I asked him to clean out my house; he threw out all the garbage.
This was the first of three interconnected incidents of spiritual warfare that I now realize have made me a stronger, more faithful, and humbler Christian.
Not Judged. Atoned.
Man, by offending against God, committed an infinite offense. Every sin from Adam to the last sin before the crack of doom, is an infinite offense against God. But Man, being finite, cannot make infinite reparations or atonement. His sin is an infinite offense because of the One offended. But his reparations can only be finite because of the one making reparations.
So God, in his Infinite Mercy, became Man, so that as Man, He could offer to God an Infinite Atonement for His brother’s sins.
lol Thats a stretch. A sieve would hold more water than the pre-Adamic/Gap theory. Try reading the Bible without the inserting of very poorly supported theories of liberal theologions. Start at “In the beginning” and go from there, you’ll soon find out the gap theory can’t stand up to the least scrutiny, neither the pre-Adamic man.
The thing in common with both of these false doctrines is that they diminish God to a being who has fallible and has to experiment with genetics. Death enters in long before Adam and Eve making God a liar when he says Adams sin introduced death. Satan the deceiver always tries to diminish God to fallible and elevate man to Godhood. Personally I will take God at his word and leave the false teachers to their own demise.
brian…my brother in Christ.
We go back and forth on minor points but you are a dedicated Believer…no doubt!
I upvoted you too…
If evolution were true then these artifacts would be a very big puzzlement. You’d expect to find tech that demonstrated slow advancements in knowledge and processes. But, if what we see today was the result of a creation event as testified by the Bible then one could expect that humans created would be very intelligent and not the brutish beast often portrayed.
Whats not told in schools or universities, is that the further back in time you go there is an increase in intelligence. Looking at various artifacts today leave the ‘experts’ scratching their heads in disbelief because they have no idea how the ancients accomplished things. That or they have to make up fanciful stories in attempts to explain away the problem.
We think that we are sophisticated and smart with all our tech that runs on electricity. What if the ancients did all this and more without electricity or diesel fuel?? Moved slabbed rock weighing 10k tons and better, leveling stone to laser level, perhaps using sound to raise objects, doing things that today present huge problems even for modern equipment.
I’m a question everything person and when you look at all this information, from fossils, complexity of the DNA, out of place artifacts and others then any honest intellectual would have to come to a reasonable conclusion… we are the result of a Creator and not some random mindless chances spawned from some chemical soup… If this is the case, then it also means we will stand before Him at the end of our lives… What will you say??? I didn’t have enough information??
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
Even if One believed in Darwinisim and the timeline proposed by “Science” that says Homo Sapiens Sapiens has been on the planet for somewhere between 40,000-200,000 years, then the current train of thought regarding “Civilization” just doesn’t make sense.
Early Homo Sapiens Sapiens would be just like us, with the same intelligence and problem solving skills. To believe that it required 40,000+ years just to get to to the Bronze Age strains credulity past its limits.
Adam, as the Father of the Human Race, was made whole and entire as an adult. He, and Eve, had infused knowledge from his Creator. So he was the most wise, knowledgeable, and informed person in all of history (setting aside Christ and possibly His Mom).
This knowledge was passed on, and would undoubtedly be responsible for many tech marvels of the anti-diluvian world. Noah’s Ark, for example.
But with the Flood, much was lost. And after Babel, even more so.
It is just blocks of memory / cache that didn’t get cleared correctly when the program was reset. Not worth the effort and expense to find the bug in the program, because it doesn’t effect the outcome of the program, and by the time any of it is found and understood, the program is ready to end and be restarted anyways. There is also an error correcting subroutine, that vacuums up all these artifacts and stores them in a folder called the smithsonian (named after the programmer that wrote the subroutine of course, you know how vain some programmers can be).
And the Vatican Library — don’t forget that one…
I enjoy watching Ancient Aliens for the OOParts and such, but I refuse to ascribe to “Aliens” that which Mankind is capable. I’m firmly convinced that there was a worldwide catastrophe sometime between 15,000-11,000 BCE, coinciding with the end of the last Ice Age, that wiped out a significant portion of the Global Population, and a highly Technological Society. We’re a Species with Amnesia.
I’ve read virtually everything that Graham Hancock, and his colleague Robert Bauvell, have written, and although he has somewhat backed off from his initial thesis in “Fingerprints of The Gods” regarding Earth Crust Displacement theory posited by Charles Hapgood, I still believe that Antarctica would be a reasonable location to start looking for evidence of the previous civilization.
There’s several Joe Rogan episodes with Graham Hancock that are really interesting, and he’s scheduled to do another one on the 11th of November.
Here are some out of place artifacts on Mars…it is always interesting to listen to how NASA tries to explain them away. Some of the explanations are less likely than the clear evidence that the eyes see.
https://www.cnet.com/pictures/59-weird-objects-seen-on-mars-explained/53/
What about the timber, the lemming, and the walrus bone? Why aren’t those shown in the CNET article?
(Because they prove that the Mars rover landed somewhere north of Canada…)
If you are acquainted with the Hindu Yuga Cycles, then these phenomena and time frames surrounding them might not sound too absurd or improbable or impossible.
One Yuga Cycle is 4,320,000 years … and 1,000 Yuga Cycles constitute one day of Brahma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle
Ancient Egypt alone proves there were advanced technologies at work. They treated the sick in vibration rooms carved in the underground bedrock, they would be puzzled by the allopathic medicine we have today which fails to treat the human body as an electrical construct.
It is fairly accepted now that the foundations of the ancient cities were not put there by the Inca, Egyptians, etc. who actually built on top of the megaton stone structures. Gobekli Tepe in southeast Turkey is many thousands of years older than the pyramids and has precision laid megalith stone blocks that are the largest in the world. Camel fuker nomads did not have that technology, hell we don’t have that technology today.
No, they don’t. Oldest known, yes. Largest? Not by a long shot.
Anon- Baalbek, Lebanon has the largest stone, thanks for the correction but Gobekli Tepe has comparable, I should have remembered that….thanks. Either way, we don’t have the technology for either sites’ megaliths.
Ancient structures believed to be only thousands of years old have been examined as to their positioning. While some line up perfectly with current north, others don’t, but do line up with other structures that all line up with positions near north that are believed to be previous polar locations before the periodic shifts that have occurred. Given that there are many groups of the structures that have different polar locations in common, and the numbers of groups indicate that some of these structures may be hundreds of thousands of years old or more, with other more recent cultures simply being the latest inhabitants, not the creators. It also appears as though these shifts happen extremely suddenly, not gradually, with cataclysmic consequences.
I don’t trust carbon dating. It’s controversial. So how do they know how old any of these artifacts are?
https://allaboutarchaeology.org/carbon-dating.htm
That said, Timothy Alberino wrote Birthright about a planetary civilization God destroyed before he brought back the Earth from the void it had become after it was destroyed.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57940046-birthright
Unless it’s made of organic materials (wood, etc), it cannot be carbon dated. And it has been verified that if the object was exposed to any radiation from the massive numbers of above ground nuclear tests, bone of the results can be trusted.
Just stuff sloppy Magratheans left behind.
Based on current observations I believe humans reach an apex in their civilization then massively decline and resort back to their origins to start again. Much History is probably lost in the process. Case in point the Mayans. They were advanced then disappeared. There are probably many past civilizations we don’t know about. Right now we are sliding backwards and our history is being erased. Some future society will probably find our artifacts and think we were aliens.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we are the aliens, visited this planet years ago, got stuck, and lost the tech to go back home, some catastrophe set them back and they forgot everything.
It really isn’t an outrageous theory, if you think about it, we are about to do the exact same thing(sending astronauts to visit far off planets)next 100-200 yrs ? if we don’t blow ourselves back to the Stone Age that is…what if we send them some other planet and they get stuck there, and start a human civilization from those original astronauts
We will find a tablet on Mars with our ancestors last words, “We fucked this one up so we are moving to the third planet”.
The extinct Denisovan Cave people drilled perfect tiny holes in jewelry somehow 40-70K years ago. No idea how they did it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072094/40-000-year-old-bracelet-believed-oldest-suggests-ancient-humans-used-drills.html
Many of these things can be explained by the Deluge of Noah.
The only real argument against the Deluge is the relatively recent theory of Uniformitarianism; the idea that what we see going on today is what is responsible for what happened in the past.
But Uniformitarianism, as a geological theory is absolutely bankrupt. Proven so by fossils of spiders and jelly fish, tree trunks “growing” through layers of rock, and recent efforts around the dead end of the uniformitarian theory called Catatostrophism.
Pretty much any “science” that attempts to explain natural history is a category error.
There is alot of time in “prehistoric” time. Stranger things definitely exist, and are mostly closely held government secrets by one government or another. Talk to any “semi-retired” advanced physics or engineering researcher/professor who had “spooky” connections (hint: lots of international travel, interesting institutional/company/institute affiliations), they can almost all tell you about being taken to sites and shown artifacts that at the time, probably still, are beyond explanation and using technology still not understood.