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"Hear my words and be wise! I speak as a teacher who is honored with wisdom." (G. S. 209:36).
On page twenty-five of I Rode A Flying Saucer, by George W. Van Tassel, there is a message dated May 17,
1952. In part, it reads: "My center has given me authority to describe vaguely this ship I command. In your
dimensions my, what you would call 'flagship', is three-hundred feet thick, and fifteen-hundred feet in
diameter. Our crew _seventy-two hundred_."
The fact that the crew numbered seventy-two hundred is very significant and if we go to our Bible, we
discover why.
"And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a
servant of the high priest's and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his
place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my
Father, and he shall presently give me more than _twelve legions of angels?_ But how then shall the scriptures
be fulfilled, that thus it must be?" (St. Matthew 26:51-54).
In designating the number of angels the Father would send if Jesus requested them, the Master used the then
familiar Roman military unit, the legion. A legion varied from the time of the early re-public until the empire
in the number of men composing it. The Emperor Marius made many changes in its basic structure. However,
the legion Triarii consisted of six-hundred men; this was the third line of the Roman army. Therefore, twelve
Triarii equalled _seventy-two hundred men_, the same number as the crew of the space 'flagship".
There is a cross-reference in the Bible to "twelve legions of angels" found in St. Matthew 26:53 which is
quoted above. That cross-reference refers us back to II Kings 6:17, which has already been mentioned, but it
will be quoted again for emphasis.
"I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and,
behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round Elisha."
In going back to the year 4004 B.C., we find in Genesis 5:24, the following:
"And Enoch walked with God and he was not; for God took him." Again there is another cross-reference and
it refers us to II Kings 2:11, which has already been quoted. There is mention of Enoch in Hebrews 11:5: "By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him:
for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God."
Look at the Bible dates as they are recorded. In the first chapter of Genesis, first verse you will find the
beginning of the story of the creation of the Earth. At the head of the center column reference is the date 4004
B.C. At the end of chapter three, after God had driven Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, there is the
date 4003 B.C., or, one year later than the beginning of Creation. In chapter five where the generations of
Adam are listed, counting forward to the removal of Enoch, there is a lapse of nine-hundred eighty-five years,
but the date at the head of the column is again 4004 B.C. How come?
Science has proven beyond a doubt that the Earth is millions of years old. Besides, there are in existence a
number of documents dated much earlier than the alleged Bible date of creation. In the book, _Ancient Times,
A History Of The Early World_, by James Henry Breasted, on page 45, chapter 61, we find reference to the
Egyptian culture: "He decided to use the Moon no longer for dividing his year. He would have twelve months,
and he would make his months all the same length, that is, thirty days each; then he would celebrate five feast
days; a kind of holiday week that was five days long at the end of the year. This gave him a year of
three-hundred sixty-five days. He was not enough of an astronomer to know that every four years he ought to
have a leap year of three-hundred sixty-six days although he discovered this fact later. This convenient
Egyptian calendar was devised in 4241 B.C. and its introduction is the earliest dated event in history.