Creation Week Part 3: Dinosaurs and Death Through Adam

Our theory on when GOD made dinosaurs, how long was each creation day, death through Adam, and… the meaning of life.

Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy.

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Timestamps (coming soon):

0:00 Intro
1:56 Day 5 creatures
2:20 Ha’Tanninim Ha’Gadol
4:09 Tannin word study & Day 5 Dino Theory
8:36 Jonah and the whale
9:41 Moses’ staff turns into a tannin
11:27 How long was each creation day?
15:21 What is “good”?
16:49 Death through Adam
19:44 Sin in Hebrew and the letter chet
22:51 The meaning of life (“chay”)
26:36 Song: I Will Cast My Cares

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Transcript:

Carlos: Big things to talk about today.

Dawson: Yes, very big things.

Carlos: Amen, very big things.

[Dinosaur growling]

Dawson: There are 22 letters in the original Hebrew alphabet and only one of them is a picture of something with scales. This is the letter nachash, also known known as nun, and it’s a picture of a snake. We think that Father may have used this same letter nachash to describe another type of scaly reptile that we all know.

Today we’re going to talk about creation day five and how the Hebrew in Genesis may hold a clue about when it is that God created these ancient reptiles.

Carlos: Let’s start it off.

Dawson: Okay, so starting off with Genesis chapter 1 verse 20, we read, “And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.’ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind, and God saw that it was good.”

Carlos: Amen. Now when it says and every creature after its kind in English, it’s King James, everything that teemeth in the sea.

Dawson: Yeah, so we’ve got three groups.

Carlos: Sardines, the shrimps.

Dawson: Sardines, yeah.

Carlos: Everything.

Dawson: Yeah, we’ve got three groups of creatures that are being described here and they’re distinct groups. And so, we want to talk about one group in particular, but let me just give you the three to start off with.

Carlos: And I don’t want to give it away.

Dawson: You can give it away because I kind of gave it away in the intro. So, the first thing that Father created here on day five is something which in Hebrew it is called “Ha’tanninim ha’gadol”. And the second thing is every living creature which abounded the waters, which teemeth the waters.

Carlos: Which teemeth in the waters.

Dawson: And third is every winged bird.

Carlos: Every winged bird.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: So, let’s go to the first one.

Dawson: The first one. “Ha’tanninim ha’gadol,” and this phrase is what gets translated into English as great whales. But …

Carlos: No, no, no.

Dawson: We take issue with that.

Carlos: At Original Hebrew, we see what the actual letters say.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And how Father put it out and what they mean.

Dawson: Yes. So “ha’tanninim ha’gadol”. Let’s break it down and then we’ll take a look at the root word.

Carlos: Tav.

Dawson: There’s a tav in it, yeah. But first let’s kind of get rid of the “ha” part. So, “ha” means the and “gadol” means great. So ha’tanninim ha’gadol is “the great tannin”.

Carlos: More than one, plural.

Dawson: Plural.

Carlos: Ha-tan-na-im.

Dawson: Ha’tanninim. It’s a little hard to say.

Carlos: Ha-tan-na-im. Many ways to say it. When the prophets get here, we’ll know exactly how to say it.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Right now, say it just the best you can.

Dawson: Yes. So, the root word is “tannin”. And should we take this to the board?

Carlos: Well, let’s go over it first.

Dawson: Okay.

Carlos: In most cases, in most cases, it means snake or dragon. Take your choice.

Dawson: This word, this word “tannin,” you find it 27 times in the Old Testament and in nearly every case it’s translated like Carlos is saying as serpent slash snake, which is the same thing or dragon. But in Genesis for some reason, it gets translated as great whales and the reason for that is because it’s on the day that they’re talking about what teemeth the sea. But looking at the Hebrew, these are three distinct groups of creatures.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Okay.

Carlos: Okay, welcome Original Hebrew, our board. We always go through the letters here.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So let’s see it. Ha’tanninim.

Carlos: Ha’tanninim.

Dawson: Well, tannin, the root word tannin.

Carlos: Tannin, ta.

Dawson: It’s the letter tav.

Carlos: Na.

Dawson: That’s the letter nachash, which many people know as nun.

Carlos: Ta-nan, ta-nan. And the next letters?

Dawson: That’s it.

Carlos: Tanninim. So, what exactly does this mean?

Dawson: Well, the first letter is the letter tav which is.. in Hebrew, there’s a word tav and it means mark and it’s used to mean mark and sign and it’s used the same exact way in the Hebrew alphabet and in Hebrew words. When you see the letter tav, it’s very often mark and sign and the next two letters are the same and those are the letters nachash, which they’re pictures of snakes. So, this word is …

Carlos: Snakes, reptiles, dragons.

Dawson: Yes, this word is literally by the letters the mark of snakes. So that’s why we don’t think it’s whales.

Carlos: Another way is, and you can see this, Father’s children, is a sign that behold heads up, the really tannin, tannin. This is really a snake or a dragon, something that you got to watch out for. It’s to be respected. Amen?

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Now if you put ha’tanninim.

Dawson: It means “the”.

Carlos: It means “the”. So, it’s more than one. Amen?

Dawson: Yeah, so it’s “ha” in front and then “im” at the end, which we talked about in one of the last episodes. If you add “im” at the end, it makes it plural. So, there’s the letter hey for “ha,” which means the.

Carlos: Ha’tanninim.

Dawson: And then if you add a yod mem at the end, which you don’t have to do. But that was –

Carlos: Let’s add it. Why not? Ha’tanninim.

Dawson: Ha’tanninim.

Carlos: The many.

Dawson: Yes. So ha’tanninim ha’gadol.

Carlos: Ha’gadol. Let’s look at the next one. Ha and then it’s …

Dawson: That’s the letter gimmel.

Carlos: Ga-dol.

Dawson: Yes, so basically by the letters, it’s the great big snake-like creatures.

Carlos: Let’s go over this. Twenty-seven times, tannin would be a snake or a dragon. Now there’s only one time that it says whale.

Dawson: Great whales, yeah.

Carlos: And where is that? Only one time.

Dawson: That’s in the Genesis verse –

Carlos: Only in Genesis.

Dawson: That we just read it, yeah.

Carlos: Amen. So, it’s ha-tanninim, great dragon, great lizards, gadol, boom, expand, big.

Dawson: Which to us it sounds like this is talking about Father creating the dinosaurs on day five.

Carlos: And making them really big.

Dawson: And making them really big. Yeah.

Carlos: Now, this is only for your consideration, children of God. This is – we’re not starting a religion or nothing like that. We’re studying what it says in the Bible and then you consider it with your own church group, of course. Amen. So, it’s ha’tanninim, plural. Ha’gadol, the dragons, the snakes, got big. Amen?

Dawson: Yeah. In the Bible when it talks about Leviathan, Leviathan is described as a nachash, which is the Hebrew word for snake, and that’s also the name of this letter which is a picture of a snake. So, Leviathan is a nachash and a tannin.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So, it’s equating the two things together, which just makes – is more for us to believe that this is talking about great big snake-like creatures.

Carlos: Now, now, there’s going to be a question. What’s the prophet that gets swallowed by a …

Dawson: Okay, so …

Carlos: … giant fish or whale?

Dawson: Yes, Jonah. Jonah when he is swallowed, he’s not swallowed by a tannin, he’s swallowed by a dag-gadol, which is a great fish. So …

Carlos: He’s swallowed by a dag …

Dawson: A dag-gadol.

Carlos: Dag and then gadol. Pretty much do that again. It’s ga-dol. He’s swallowed by ha’gadol. Dag-gadol.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: A big fish, not a whale

Dawson: It could have been a whale. I mean dag gadol is a great way to describe a whale. Tannin-gadol is not a great way to describe a whale, but it is a great way to describe a dinosaur.

Carlos: Back in those days, I’m not sure we would have distinguished a fish from a whale. They’re just one that’s big.

Dawson: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: One other place that you will see the word “tannin” used in the scriptures is when Moses, when Father commands Moses to go in front of Pharaoh and say, you know, “Let my people go.” Moses had a staff and Father had him throw that staff down when he went to go meet Him initially. And when he throws that staff down the first time, he calls that staff a nachash. It turns into a snake. Later, when Moses goes and talks to Pharaoh, Father says, “Cast your staff in front of him and I will turn it into a tannin. And that tannin will destroy the tannins of pharaoh.” So, he turns Moses’ staff into a great big snake that …

Carlos: That eats the other snakes.

Dawson: Eats the other snakes of pharaoh and his magicians. Yeah.

Carlos: Amen. That’s pretty good. And little ones, no matter how much you understand or don’t understand, you’ll be glad to know that your salvation is based not on how much you know or study but if Yeshua is in your heart and you love Him and He loves you.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: Right. This is just because we love Father’s Word.

Dawson: Yes, we like doing word studies. Now there’s an interesting impact if this is talking about dinosaurs and if it was dinosaurs that were created on day five, then that brings up a few questions because that is before the creation of man. And so, we want to talk about some of the arguments that people might have against this.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: We’ll head back to our seats.

Carlos: Well, I will get this later. Look at that. Only halfway done. We’ll be back.

Well, that brought up a few questions that we have. Amen?

Dawson: Yes. So, one of the main questions that people have about Creation Week is how long was each day? Was it literally 24 hours or was it longer than that? And based on the way the word day, yom, is used in the scriptures, a day can be just daytime, which is just the light part of day, or it can be the daytime plus the nighttime. That’s a full day. Same word in Hebrew, yom. And it can also be used to describe a period of time of an unknown number, including but not limited to a thousand years.

Carlos: Amen. There’s a Shabuah owed and within the Shabuah is the Day of the Lord and that’s more than one day.

Dawson: Yes, we believe that the Day of the Lord, I believe that the Day of the Lord starts when we see Yeshua coming back in the clouds and that same day continues all the way through the end of millennium. So that would explain a lot of the different scriptures.

Carlos: Get ready for a video.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Father’s children. They’re going to want to know.

Dawson: Yeah. So, a day can be a thousand years and it could also be a hundred thousand years.

Carlos: It could be anything. Father did His creation according to what He wants, what He saw good and fit in His own eyes and He did it with – like it says, He did it for His own pleasure and the way He wanted it.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: We won’t know everything, but it’s easy to see if Father wants a one, two, or three billion years to happen and it’s okay.

Dawson: Yeah.

If He wants it all to happen within a couple hundred thousand years or just 4,048 years, whatever it is, it doesn’t really matter. We’ll find out how He does it when we get to ask Him.

Dawson: Yeah, and in the meantime, it’s fun to speculate.

Carlos: Amen. And your salvation is not based on what you do or do not know. Again, if Yeshua is giving you life in the Spirit, you’re baptized and you’re walking with Him, that’s all you need.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. So, we’re of the opinion and this is, like I said, it’s speculation and, you know, everyone can have their own opinion.

Carlos: From our studies.

Dawson: Yeah. From our studies, but also just kind of from, to me anyway, from a logical perspective. I don’t think that you had dinosaurs like hanging out with mankind because a huge majority of dinosaurs are vicious meat-eating creatures, which is an interesting point because dinosaurs, if they were created on day five, there was no dietary restriction on day five.

Carlos: No. Anything goes.

Dawson: Yes, anything goes. It wasn’t until day six when Father said eats herbs and plants. Yeah, so the dinosaurs would not have been like breaking Father’s commandment or anything on day five if that’s when they existed. So we think that that day five lasted longer than 24 hours and that would have been the timeframe when dinosaurs potentially lived and died out so that they’re completely gone by the time man comes on the next day. That’s our thought.

Carlos: That’s what we see as possible. And there was no one chasing Adam around, and neither does it say that before the flood they were running from dinosaurs.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: They were probably running from Nephilim, which we’ll talk about later.

Dawson: Yeah, we’ll get to that in another episode here. There are two other arguments that people make against a longer creation. So, we’ve got your six literal day camp, 24 hours each day, and then you’ve got –

Carlos: Always leaving us messages.

Dawson: What’s that?

Carlos: Always leaving us messages.

Dawson: Yes, yes, we get a lot of messages from both sides of every single issue you can possibly imagine. So, the people who think that creation happened within – Lucky’s barking in her sleep. Like all of creation was handled within six 24-hour days, they would say that it’s not possible to have any sort of meat-eating anything because that’s just not good. It’s not good that animals eat other animals and that they get killed and hunted and whatnot. But …

Carlos: Let’s make it easy. After the flood, we were instructed to kill and eat.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen. So, it’s good if He says so, it’s bad if He says go. It’s His choice, Father’s choice.

Dawson: Right. And as we talked about last time around, the Hebrew word for good is a picture of whatever Father decided to keep in His house, which is His creation. And it goes based on whatever He thought was necessary, whatever He wanted and whatever He chose to make things function however He pleased.

Carlos: According to His will. Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. So, it doesn’t mean when He said everything was good, it doesn’t mean that everything in the world would have seemed pleasant to us. That’s not what …

Carlos: No spiders for me thank you.

Dawson: Yeah, I mean there’s all kinds of stuff that I don’t know about …

Carlos: If Father deems it good, what’s it to us? Fine with me.

Dawson: Yeah, and the biggest argument that people would make against this whole theory of long creation days and dinosaurs living and dying or anything living and dying before the fall is that they make the point that the Bible teaches death entered through Adam.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: But we’d like to clarify.

Carlos: There is a different kind of death.

Dawson: Yes. It’s not physical death that entered through Adam. That’s not what Paul is saying in the verse that everyone quotes. It is death through sin that comes through Adam.

Carlos: Separation from our Father, our Creator and our Messiah. When you sin and you don’t shub, we’ll talk about that too.

Dawson: We’ll talk about shub shortly.

Carlos: When you sin and you don’t shub, that means turn from your ways, you’re separating yourself from your Creator, the one who gives you your light, the one that guides you in your walk, and the one who’s going to preserve you from what’s coming.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And that’s what he’s talking about, the spiritual death, because if you’re righteous and though you die now, you will be raised up later. Do not fret.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Let me read the verse that everyone points to for this death through Adam argument because it’s rather popular. In Romans chapter 5 verse 12, it says, “By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin.” So not just death, but death through sin. The Scriptures are full of examples of there being a difference between a spiritual death, which is death through sin, and a physical death.

Carlos: Well, He told Adam, He’s looking at Adam and Adam, if he dies, he would be raised again automatically. But if He told Adam on the day that you sinned, on that day.

Dawson: The day you eat of the tree.

Carlos: I can’t raise you up no more. You’ll be cut off from me and that day you shall die.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: because there’s no resurrection of Adam. By the way, Adam is righteous, he changed his ways.

Dawson: He is righteous, yeah.

Carlos: Just to show you what happened.

Dawson: On Enoch’s 10 weeks, we showed that his name is listed among the righteous.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: In that scripture that Carlos is talking about, when Father tells Adam in the day that He said, “Don’t eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil because in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” Now Adam ate of the tree and He didn’t die that day. He went on and he had lots of kids and he lived hundreds of years. So Father wasn’t talking about physical death. He was talking about this death that comes through sin and that is a separation. And it’s interesting because the letter chet is a picture of a wall. And the word…

Carlos: Cut off.

Dawson: Yes, it’s a cut off. The word sin is pronounced two ways in the Bible. One is as chatta’ah and one is as chet. It’s basically spelled almost the same as the letter chet, which is the wall.

Carlos: Chet.

Dawson: Yeah, chet. So, if you think about it, Father describes our whole relationship with Him as a walk and Yeshua is the way and sin is the wall that stops you dead in your tracks. So, we mess up, we need his forgiveness, we need to repent. And when we do that, then Yeshua is the door, right? He lets us through the wall.

Carlos: He picks us up and we start walking left in the way, ha-derek.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Puts you right back on the path where you should be.

Dawson: Yeah. But without Yeshua, there’s no …

Carlos: There’s no salvation.

Dawson: There’s no salvation. So, you end up with death through sin, which is what Paul was talking about in Romans.

Carlos: That’s what he meant. So, there’s one, if you die, do not fret. Father will raise you up and you will stand among the congregation of the living. But if you’re in sin, do not expect to be among the congregation of the living, David says. Amen?

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: He’s going to raise David again unto us.

Dawson: Yes, and that kind of leads to more evidence that there’s a difference between spiritual death, which is death through sin and physical death because Yeshua talks about Father is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Carlos: Amen, the God of the living.

Dawson: And he says he’s not the God of the dead, he’s the God of the living, meaning Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are alive. Yeshua plainly says, “Whoever believes in me will never die,” right? But physically, for 2,000 years, people have lived and died. He’s not talking about physical death.

Carlos: Amen. I like to bring something up in the comments. Some brother goes, “Could you please explain about talking to Ezekiel to prophet?”

Dawson: Okay, so in the last episode or the one before, you kind of gave a shout out to Peter and so like a couple people asked …

Carlos: Hello, Peter, hello brother Ezekiel.

Dawson: How’s that? Like, how is it you’re talking to him?

Carlos: I go, they’re not hearing me and they can – no they can’t talk to me, but I’m acknowledging that they’re alive. And I’ll let them know that before I met you, I was saying hello because I know you were among the living. Because I believe one day we’ll meet Peter and we’ll meet Ezekiel.

Dawson: Ezekiel, 100%.

Carlos: A hundred percent and I’m going to tell them, I knew you’re among the living. Hallelujah. And I said hello to you even back there.

Dawson: Yes. Amen.

Carlos: Amen. That’s what I meant.

Dawson: Yeah. So, if we’ve got a spiritual death and a physical death, then that means that we’ve got spiritual life and physical life. And the Scriptures teach that as well. So, from a physical basis, you’re born from your mother’s womb and you need bread and you need food and water in order to live, right? From a spiritual basis, your spiritual life is that you’re born from above and you’re reborn from above like Yeshua says, you’re born again. And our bread is His body that was broken for us. Our drink is His blood that He shed for us. And it’s by those things that we exist and we have our life. So that’s a spiritual life versus the physical life.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So, there’s a – if you sin, you will die. It will separate you from your God, from your Redeemer, from your Restorer.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen. So don’t separate.

Dawson: Yeah, absolutely. There’s one very cool Hebrew word that I’ll show on screen. We don’t have to go to the board for this. But it shows you kind of the whole picture of this spiritual life that Yeshua came to give us if you just look at the Paleo Hebrew letters of the word “life” in Hebrew. So, the word for life is “chay”.

It’s spelled chet yod. So chet, as we talked about before, is the picture of the wall and in a lot of Hebrew words the letter chet is used to mean end. So as a wall kind of stops you, brings you to an end, the letter chet is used in words to mean end and the letter yod, we talked about that before too. It’s the picture of the arm and with your arm, you do things, you make things, you work and so what the letter – what the word chai means, the Hebrew word for life is it’s a picture of the end result of Yeshua’s work and that is that He gives us eternal life so that we could enter the kingdom.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Brings us in.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And I love that every letter has a meaning. Every letter lets you understand exactly what Father is trying to tell us. I hope you’re enjoying this a little different than just reading you the Bible.

Dawson: Right, yeah.

Carlos: And as we said, we could use the word and the ocean was teeming with all – you know, with everything that teems and everything – all the sardines, all the squids, all the shrimp. Amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: All the good stuff. Calamari, sardines in olive oil.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: And tomato sauce.

Carlos: Tomato sauce.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And He made it good for us. Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. So just to wrap up the whole death through sin and the “ha’tanninim ha’gadol”.

Carlos: Well, I like to say it’s only used one time and that’s in Genesis.

Dawson: That exact phrase.

Carlos: That exact phrase, whale. And every other time, it’s snake, dragon, one time, one time, reptile.

Dawson: It depends on what translation you look at. But I do think that reptile is probably one of the better translations for that word.

Carlos: It’s a little fuzzy, but it sure seems like reptile.

Dawson: Yeah. So bottom line is we don’t know if he’s talking, if Moses, when he was writing down the words of Genesis, if he was talking about dinosaurs, but it certainly seems possible to us.

Carlos: Amen.

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