Hiding the Messaiah: Falsification of Genesis 5 & 11 (Part 1)

[Humble Penny]

Continuing from Hiding the Messiah: Falsification of Genesis 5 & 11 (Introduction) I thought it prudent to provide you all with a quick overview to have a basic understanding of the four major translations of the Bible which I will list in order from youngest to oldest. From there we will go over the numbers found in the genealogical records of the aforementioned chapters of Genesis:

1) Samaritan Pentatuech (SP)
2) Masoretic Text (MT)
3) Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)
4) Septuagint (LXX)

The SP is only composed of the five books of Moses as the Samaritans believe those are the only books inspired by God (not different from the Sadducees). And yes these are the same Samaritans spoken of in the Gospels; once in the Maccabees; and once in 2 Kings. And the Jews and the Samaritans are mainly nuisances to one another. The main difference between their text and those of the Jews is that the Samaritans claim that Mt. Gerizim is the place of worship for God instead of Mt. Ebal; Eli is an illegitimate priest who moved the Temple to Shiloh; and that in addition to the Ten Commandments they added an eleventh which states that Mt. Gerizim is the place for worship. The MT however is what many of our modern translations have been based on since the Council of Jamnia.

Since the time of the MT we thought those to be the most ancient translations until the discovery of the DSS at Qumran. And quite a stir was made with these more ancient mss (manuscripts) as the words of Moses and the prophets became clearer and, naturally made the words of Jesus and His twelve apostles clearer who quoted them.

And while the DSS were thought to be the most ancient, there was the discovery of the LXX which caused a bigger stir and, I may add, a disagreement among scholars and theologians. This was due to the fact that after analyzing the text of all four major translations: the words of Christ and the Twelve, and those of Moses and the Prophets, in addition to the DSS aligned more with the LXX than they did the MT, especially those prophesies which relate to the Messiah. For those who are lovers of learning I will not wear out our other readers as my main focus is on the numbers of the genealogical records. But if you must know these things for yourselves then you can read these works:

For DSS, Apocryphal works, and the 364 Day Solar Calendar
Complete English Translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Penguin Books

For back story on the DSS found at Qumran
Discoveries in the Judean Desert

For the source text of the LXX and its subsequent translations done by Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and Origen
Letter of Aristeas
Ephianus' Treatise on Weights and Measures

Here's an excellent YouTube series by Post-Apostolic Church comparing numerous quotations of the Masoretic Text with the LXX
Septuagint Series

With that out of the way let us analyze the genealogical records of each of the four major
translations:

Figure 1

The oddball in this list is Flavius Josephus who didn't write a translation of the Hebrew scriptures but, I included him since he was of priestly descent and, one of the main people who lived at the time of Jesus. And it is around this time that we would have expected the community at Qumran to be alive. And Josephus' genealogical records in Antiquities of the Jews and those in the Dead Sea Scrolls are the closest textual sources I could find which wouldn't be so far removed from Christ or the Septuagint. Therefore Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews and the DSS would be less prone to tampering as compared to the MT and SP which came much later in history.

In order to arrive at the truth of the matter we must use the instructions given to us by Moses:

"One witness will not suffice to convict a person on any matter. But the truth will be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses."

So, we will carefully look at where they agree and disagree and, in each case where the number of witnesses are greater than the other we will accept those testimonies as true. At the end we will take all true testimonies and cause the numbers which don't agree with them to change and, once this has been completed we will change the years from Adam to the Flood for each.

As you can clearly see from the charts above all five of our accounts disagree on four time periods:

1) The total time from Adam to the Flood.
2) When each father begat their son.
3) The length of their lives after begetting their sons.
4) The deaths of Jared, Methuselah, and Lamech.

We will begin with 4)...

Jared [+115 Years to SP]
847 (SP) - 1 Witness
962 (LXX; Josephus; MT) - 3 Witnesses

Methuselah [+316 Years to SP]
653 (SP) - 1 Witness
969 (LXX; Josephus; MT) - 3 Witnesses

Lamech [+24 Years to LXX]
753 Years (LXX) - 1 Witness
777 Years (Josephus; MT) - 2 Witnesses

We will ignore the time each father begat their sons for now as the years they died and, begat their sons will dictate how long they lived after begetting them. And we will start with the same three men as before...

Jared [+100 Years to SP]
62 (SP) - 1 Witness
162 (LXX; Josephus; MT) - 3 Witnesses

Methuselah [+120 Years to SP; +20 Years to LXX]
67 (SP) - 1 Witness
167 (LXX) - 1 Witness
187 (MT; Josephus) - 2 Witnesses

Lamech [+129 Years to SP; -6 Years from LXX]
53 Years (SP) - 1 Witness
182 Years (MT; Josephus) - 2 Witnesses
188 Years (LXX) - 1 Witness

After adding 455 Years to the deaths of each man and, 363 Years to the time each man begat their son, this is what our first correction looks like...

Figure 2

Now we've got to resolve this 600 Year discrepancy between the SP+MT and Josephus+LXX. Thankfully this part is easier to do for, 100 Years each have been shifted from the time Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, and Jared begat their sons to the time they lived after begetting them!

Figure 3

Okay after shifting those numbers around and adding the missing years back we're done right? Not quite, we need to resolve the years added to Methuselah's death. Congratulations to those who have not been letting the photos fool them into not adding the numbers for themselves:

230 Years (Adam)
205 Years (Seth)
190 Years (Enosh)
170 Years (Kenan)
165 Years (Mahalalel)
162 Years (Jared)
165 Years (Enoch)
187 Years (Methuselah)
182 Years (Lamech)
600 Years (Noah)
2256 Years (Adam to Flood)

But where is the discrepancy of Methuselah at? It is hidden in the year he died...in other words the scribes subtracted and shifted hundreds of years around from Genesis 5 in order to hide the fact that they added 14 Years to his death: therefore the true year Methuselah died is 955 Years old, not 969 Years old.

Figure 4

A comparison between Figure 3 and Figure 4 will show that…

Figure 3
Methuselah
187 (Methuselah begets Lamech)
782 (Years lived after begetting)
969 (Methuselah dies)

Figure 4
Methuselah
173 (Methuselah begets Lamech)
782 (Years lived after begetting)
955 (Methuselah dies)

...we see that the scribes changed the year Methuselah died and begat Lamech without affecting the number of years he lived between those two periods...

If you thought that was a headache well get your brains refreshed because we're going to be analyzing the numbers in Genesis 11 but, that will be in Hiding the Messiah: Falsification of Genesis 5 & 11 (Part 2). Just know that for this part we got to this point after sorting out the agreements and disagreements between each of our witnesses' testimonies; and, as a result that led to us having to add, subtract, and shift hundreds of years all so that we could resolve the hidden 14 Year discrepancy placed in the year that Methuselah died!

 

[Humble Penny]

Does anyone else besides me see how you could devastatingly create the effect of "missing generations" by simply shifting any number of years from the time each father begat their sons to the time they lived after begetting them? And does anyone else realize the power of adding or subtracting years from the time any of the fathers above died?

This would allow the one manipulating the biblical records to give the illusion of only a small amount of time passing from Adam to the Flood. And while the average person reading wouldn't bother to notice, false or distorted narratives could be created in order to lengthen time in some places or "fill in the blanks" in others. And with so much division among the Body of Christ, who would actually take the time to add up all the years to see that they align with the narratives being told in the Bible? Not many...

"Study to show yourself approved unto God. That you as the workman might not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth."

"For the Word of God is inspired and profitable for all things."

"Be diligent in season and out of season."

"For The Enemy is like a lion seeking whom he may devour."

What good will it do you my fellow brothers and sisters if you have faith in God but do not exercise it? And what good will it do, my dear brothers and sisters, if we exercise our faith in God but do not have faith in God? It is like saying, "I have faith that God will provide" and then contradict your statement of faith by living a life contrary to it full of worry and doubt. In like manner one may proclaim the Word of God boldly to others saying, "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" but, in his heart think to himself, "How ridiculous! Look at all the injustice and evil in the world...pfffttt...God will never come to correct any of it. It's much too complex a problem to solve".

God is coming soon as He promised all of us. We must bear patiently through everything until then for at the Final Judgement God will avenge us of all the injustice we suffered in this world; He will raise all the dead back to life and expose every good or wicked deed, thought, and word said and done in our lives in the Old World: and He will throw all those wicked people who thought they could escape God's Wrath into the lake of fire to burn for eternity with Satan and his angels; the Beast and the False Prophet; and, Sin and Hell and Death. And then God will welcome all of His saints, who remained faithful to Him unto death, into the new heavens and the new earth where we may eat of the Tree of Life and live forever with God and the Lamb rejoicing with no fear of the darkness, evil, fatigue, disease, or old age: for these will not exist in the New World.

If you have not done so today repent before the Kingdom of God descends from heaven to earth. For when it does no man will have anytime left for repentance so, do this before you die in unfaithfulness to God. And if you are faithful now then remain so until death and do not let The Enemy rob you of the salvation Christ gave to you.

 

[AbbaLove]

If you have not done so today repent before the Kingdom of God descends from heaven to earth.

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Luke 17:20-22
20 When asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. 21 Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.” 22 Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it."

John 4:35-36
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. 36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Amos 9:13-14
13“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow. 14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

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Romans 1:16-17
16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News, since it is God’s powerful means of bringing salvation to everyone who keeps on trusting, to the Jew especially, but equally to the Gentile.
17 For in it is revealed how God makes people righteous in His sight; and from beginning to end it is through trust — as the Tanakh puts it, “But the person who is righteous will live his life by trust.” (Habakkuk 2:4; Proverbs 3:5-6)​

 

[Humble Penny]

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Luke 17:20-22
20 When asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. 21 Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.” 22 Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it."

John 4:35-36
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. 36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Amos 9:13-14
13“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow. 14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

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Romans 1:16-17
16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News, since it is God’s powerful means of bringing salvation to everyone who keeps on trusting, to the Jew especially, but equally to the Gentile.
17 For in it is revealed how God makes people righteous in His sight; and from beginning to end it is through trust — as the Tanakh puts it, “But the person who is righteous will live his life by trust.” (Habakkuk 2:4; Proverbs 3:5-6)​

If what you quoted above was what Christ meant by His Words then why would He instruct the apostles to open their prayers as follows?

"Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven[...]"

And because the truth of all matters needs be established on the testimony of two or more witnesses let us remember the dream of king Nebuchadnezzar's statue which was interpreted by the prophet Daniel:

"[...]as for the stone you saw cut without hands which was hurled from heaven and struck the feet of the statue so that it became dust and was carried off by the wind, and then became a great mountain and filled the whole earth: this means that God will destroy all the kingdoms of this world and He will rule forever and ever".

And when you look at the great conquerors of the past, how many times did they tell the people before conquering them to repent and surrender for their kingdom was among them? Surely before kings subdue foreign nations they send messengers ahead of them to give the people time to repent or ready themselves for war. Has not God done this with the prophets? And has not Christ done this in His first coming?