I woke up this morning remembering my first encounter and awareness of “Parallel Paradigms in Time” and “Parallel Paradoxes” in scripture in the early ‘70’s while finishing my college degree at the University of Oregon. My faith was being doubly attacked in a religion class taught by an atheist professor and a course teaching evolution.
The Holy Spirit and I got really close as I realized He is the greatest professor in the universe as He gave me home-work assignments starting in Genesis. I got bored with all the raw data in the genealogies and asked God why He included it. Immediately he spoke in my spirit and said, “David, get a pencil and paper and calculate the number of years from Adam to Abraham’s birth. If you’ll do that I’ve got a surprise for you.”
I got so excited and went right to work. When I came up with 1,948 years, He asked, “Does the year 1948 AD sound familiar?” Then it hit me! Wow! Abraham was the first Jew called out from the Gentile nations born 1,948 years from “the first Adam” and 1,948 years after “the last Adam (Jesus),” Jews were called out from the Gentile nations, and Israel was re-birthed. Isn’t God awesome?!!