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Mystery of the Maya and Aztecs
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Biblical History From the Beginning


You the reader may think that this author is already biased, reporting that the Bible is the true and infallible record of the history of mankind. But we must not forget that the Bible has been proven time and again to be the most accurate literary document in regards to the archeological and historical record dealing with people, places, nations and events.

Many scholars have taken up the task to painstakingly prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the accuracy of the Bible in this regard. Others have also struggled to prove its contents fallacious and in their attempt, many who were once skeptics have come to affirm the Bible's record. Therefore, in this presentation we are not going to review all the proofs of the Bible again, but will present this article in the light of its inerrant Truth.

Therefore, if we are to understand who the Mayans and the Aztecs are, we must go back to “the beginning” (Genesis 1:1) and look for our clues. The Bible tells us, “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day” (Exodus 20:11). We are also told, “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth … For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast” (Psalm 33:6, 9).

In a word, this is the record of when and how the Lord created all things. This amazing testimony is also confirmed by the fact that all nations are still governed by a seven-day week. Years are regulated by the earth's rotation around the sun. Months are regulated by the rotation of the moon around the earth. A day is determined by the revolution of the earth on its axis. However, the seven-day week is not governed by any astronomical phenomenon, but has its origin in the beginning when God created and made all things during the creation week.

The fact of the supernatural creation of all things in the beginning is also in harmony with two of the most universal laws of science, the First and Second Law Thermodynamics. The first law is the Law of Conservation of Energy/Matter. It states that the total quantity of Energy or Matter in the cosmos is constant. Energy or matter may be converted from one form to another but it is firmly established that in the present, energy or matter is neither being created nor destroyed.

Energy is the equivalent of work done, and after six days the Lord finished His works of creation. In other words, God is not creating anything today, for His “works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:3). As Solomon said, “there is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day … from all his work which God created and made” (Genesis 2:1-3).

The Lord's work of Creation was complete in six days. He is no longer in the process of creating, however, He is now conserving or preserving His Creation. The Bible tells us He is now “upholding all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3), “and by Him all things consist” (literally 'are sustained') (Colossians 1:17). “Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all” (Nehemiah 9:6). How wonderfully this truth fits with the observable Law of Conservation.

The second Law of Thermodynamics is also known as the Law of Increasing Entropy, or the Law of Qualitative Decay. This Law affirms that everything has a tendency to move into a state of disorder and decay and finally die.

From the First Law we have seen that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another. According to the Second Law, the total quantity of energy is always there but its availability to do useful work will be decreased. For example, heat will flow from a hot substance to a colder substance unaided but it is impossible for the heat of a colder substance to raise the temperature of a hotter substance without the aid of mechanical work.

Likewise, the sun, which has a tremendous amount of power, will eventually expend all its fuel and its energy will be dispersed throughout the universe in the form of low heat and the universe itself will finally die.

It is like the universe has been wound up like a clock sometime in the past and it is now winding down. Since it has not yet died, it must not be infinitely old, and therefore it must have had a beginning. As time goes on, the available power decreases (by the Second Law) even though the total power in the universe remains constant (by the First Law). In other words, the quantity does not decrease but the quality does.

“Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end” (Psalm 102:25-27).

However, the Second Law seems out of place in God's “very good” (Genesis 1:31) creation. In fact, we find out that death and decay are intruders and were not part of His original creation. To find out what happened, we must go back to the beginning and look to God's Book of Origins.

Above all God's creatures He made man in His own image and likeness and commanded him to be fruitful and multiply in the earth. The first man, Adam, had sweet communion with his Maker until “sin entered into the world, and death by sin” (Romans 5:12). When Adam sinned, God pronounced a “curse” (Genesis 3:17) on the “dust of the ground”, the basic elements from which God had made all things (Genesis 2:7, 19).

From that time forward, the very building blocks of life were made to operate under the Law of Decay. The whole of Adams dominion came under the curse of death because of his sin, and till this day remains under the “bondage of corruption” (Romans 8:21-22), or literally, the bondage of decay. The whole of creation has been “made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope” (Romans 8:20).

Today there is no known process to reverse this law of corruption. However, since God has imposed the Law of Decay, He may remove it, so there is still hope. Nevertheless, everything now has a tendency to decay from a created state of organized complexity to one of randomness and disorganized chaos. This universal law is clearly the opposite of the theory of evolution, which in order for it to work, demands that the universe is organizing itself into higher complexity through long periods of time. However, evolution cannot be observed and has never been supported by any scientific principle, leading us to the conclusion that evolution has never taken place.

Since the time that sin entered the world, every creature continued in a daily struggle for life, and in the end death had dominion over them. The whole creation came under the “curse” and was to face the same ruin as inherited from our father Adam. Life continued in such a fashion for approximately 1600 years until the earth became exceedingly “corrupt before God, and … filled with violence … for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth” (Genesis 6:11-12).

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Genesis 6:5-6).

However, there was yet one man who found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and that was Noah. God told Noah, “The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:13). So the Lord God commanded Noah to build an ark to save his family and two of every living kind. The Lord would not strive with man forever, but was longsuffering towards them, not willing that any should perish, so He waited yet another hundred and twenty years while Noah was preparing the ark.

When the ark was finally completed, God “overturn[ed] the earth” (Job 12:15), “bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly” (2 Peter 2:5) with such devastating results that, “the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” (2 Peter 3:6). “And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man” (Genesis 7:21).

This catastrophe is totally beyond our comprehension for nothing like this has ever been observed since that time. The Lord said, “I will destroy … the earth” (Genesis 6:13), and destruction came when “all the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:11-12). “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered” (Genesis 7:19).

This mighty upheaval extinguished the breath of every living creature, entombing many of them in the great slurry that precipitated out of the Flood. The sedimentary strata around the globe, containing billions of dead creatures in the fossil record is the observable evidence that this devastating judgment took place.

However, God saved Noah and his family and those creatures on the ark to repopulate and fill the earth once again. “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth (Genesis 9:1).

Mankind was getting a fresh start. However, in the course of only a short time, when man began to multiply once again, the awful voice of rebellion rose up in Noah's own great grandson saying, “Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:4).

At that time “the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech” (Genesis 11:1). God's command to the fathers of the human race was to multiply and “dwell on all the face of the earth(Acts 17:26), but now they had counseled together to build a great city and a tower that would act as an adhesive to keep them in one place.

To put down their rebellion, God said, “let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth” (Genesis 11:7-9).

This brings us to the point in time that is absolutely crucial to understanding the true history of mankind, and Babel is the key that unlocks the door to many mysteries surrounding the origin of the nations, including the Maya and the Aztecs.

Last Update: 6/26/2009

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