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1 BABEL - Scattering - Gen Part 2 IMPLICATION & EVIDENCE

2 IMPLICATIONS 1. Sovereignty of God 2. Origin of languages 3. Origin of nations 4. Beginning of world system

3 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts

4 Cast iron Alloy including copper, zinc, tin, arsenic, iodine, & selenium

5 Iron head

6 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts 2. Sophisticated Architecture

7 Great Ziggurat - Ur

8 Saqqara Stepped Pyramid By Zoser (2290) before Abram

9 Similar to Ziggurats in Sumer 410 x354 at base, 203 in height

10 3 Great Pyramids of Giza built in 4 th Dynasty (~2100 BC)

11 Moon Sun Teotihuacán Mexico City

12 Pyramid of Sun - 3 rd largest

13 Pyramid of Sun

14 Pyramid of Moon (from Pyramid of Sun)

15 Chichen Itza Mayan Pyramid ( AD)

16

17 Hatshepsut Obelisk (Karnak Temple)

18 Hatshepsut Obelisk Broken Obelisk - built by Hatshepsut

19 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts 2. Sophisticated Architecture 3. Astronomical Knowledge

20 30 tall 25 tons Stonehenge near Salisbury, England

21 Mayan Observatory at Chichen Itza El Caracol

22 CHANKILLO In Peru 2300 year old

23 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts 2. Sophisticated Architecture 3. Astronomical Knowledge 4. High Tech Instruments

24 Antikythera Mechanism With 30+ bronze gears

25 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts 2. Sophisticated Architecture 3. Astronomical Knowledge 4. High Tech Instruments 5. High Tech Knowledge

26 Isis with Hatshepsut & Horus-Ra At Hatshepsut Temple

27 Amun-Ra at Hatshepsut Temple

28 Khufu (Cheops) (~2100) & Khafre (1800) white limestone on top of 2 nd

29 The Great Pyramid Khufu (Cheops) Aligned to Constellation Orion >3 Million limestone blocks tons 13 acres Level to 7/8

30 3 million blocks 72 hrs/wk, 40 yrs = 20 blocks/hr

31 White Limestone Casing Stones Pyramid of Khafre

32 Bent Pyramid

33 Bent Pyramid outer casing

34 Peru Bolivia

35 Sacsayhuaman Nazca Puma Punku

36 Puma Punku in Bolivia

37

38 Puma Punku

39

40 Sacsayhuaman

41

42 Sacsayhuaman

43 Easter Island

44 Sacsayhuaman Nazca Puma Punku

45 175 x310 Humming Bird

46 Spider 150 National Geographic

47 Monkey 310 across

48 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts 2. Sophisticated Architecture 3. Astronomical Knowledge 4. High Tech Instruments 5. High Tech Knowledge 6. World Maps

49 The evidence presented by the ancient maps appears to suggest that in remote times, before the rise of any of the known cultures, of a true civilization, of a comparatively advanced sort, which either was localized in one area but had worldwide commerce, or was, in a real sense, a worldwide culture. Charles Hapgood

50 WORLD MAPS 1. Circumference of Earth 2. Details on every Continent 3. Spherical Trigonometry 4. Antarctica's shorelines 5. Remnant glaciers

51 Spain North America Africa South America Piri Reis World Map (1513 AD) Antartica

52 HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1. Pre-Flood artifacts 2. Sophisticated Architecture 3. Astronomical Knowledge 4. High Tech Instruments 5. High Tech Knowledge 6. World Maps 7. World-wide Commonality

53 Ancient cultures all over the world show links of intelligence in areas of architecture, religion, mathematical abilities and astronomical understanding. Don Landis

54 Sumerian Tablet Creation stories - Babylon, Egyptian, Greeks, Phoenicians

55 According to the evidence, at first they all generally believed in one Creator who had made mankind. They also believed they had rebelled against him and were guilty of breaking his laws. Jonathan Gray

56 Gilgemesh Epic >150 Flood Traditions

57 CULTURES ü Sumerians ü Babylonians ü Persians ü Syrians ü Asia Minor ü Greece ü Italy ü Lithuania ü Russia ü China ü India ü Cree Indians ü Cherokees ü Aztecs ü Papagoa (Mexico) ü Peru ü Fiji Islands ü Hawaii

58 BIBLICAL HISTORY is the Foundation for all history not secularism!!! From Kursi

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