How Old Is Mankind?

 The Question:  Is mankind 6000 years old, or older? 

This is a topic I have tended to stay away from.  There has been a lot of fighting over it.   God did share something with me.  

Hey you. Yes you, the reader.  This isn't the first thing you have read here, right?  This is possibly not the place to start.  I am not telling you what to do.....  

There is a spiritual understanding to the Bible.  The Spiritual is layered like layers in the atmosphere.  On the ground layer, we have things physical.  Things someone can taste touch smell hear.  Someone stubbed their toe.  It hurt.  You are on the physical layer.  As we go up into the atmosphere, we have allegories.  In Ezekiel 4, God instructs Ezekiel to do some very physical, literal things.  Ezekiel was to lay on his side for 390 days to simulate the siege of Jerusalem.  Ezekiel was instructed to do very particular things with items in his home.  These very literal things Ezekiel was instructed to do, they may have been tied to very particular spiritual allegories.  

Man is made in the image of God or "Our Image."  Our Image being God and the angels.  The Spiritual is a reflection.  Prophet Ezekiel, working in obedience to God, was doing some very particular things signifying the Siege of Jerusalem.  Ezekiel working in obedience "Set" something up in the Principalities or Spiritual.  When I write these blogs and publish, I set something on the internet. Ezekiel working in obedience to God "Set" something in the principalities or Spiritual.  Later, what Ezekiel did in obedience, in manifested in the Siege of Jerusalem, a physical or literal event.    

The topic is, "How old is mankind?" To understand where we are going, you need to understand Biblical Allegories and miracles.  There are enduring themes.  The miracles Jesus performed worked just the same as Ezekiel 4 in concept.  

The story of Adam and Eve may have been a literal event.  6000 or so years ago, there may have been some very literal.  Also, there are allegories.  There are genealogies from Adam.  (Genesis 5)  How exactly was someone keeping time?  Jacob, he labored seven years for his wives.  He labored a Biblical Week.  How was someone keeping time?  With the moon like the Hebrew Calendar?  With the sun like Gregorian Callender?  Seven years is a long time to wait for marriage.  Where did that come from?  Noah was around for a long time after the flood. 

What I am getting at, is there may have been different ways to be telling time, and seven years is a Biblical Week, that is an interesting way to think about things.  

Abraham, Moses, and Jesus are major prophetic figures who ushered in an "era."  These eras were hundreds of years long.  The genealogies from Adam mention specific individuals. (Genesis 5) There may be something literal there.  Allegorically, it may also reference an "era," representing hundreds of years.  In this understanding, mankind may be a lot older than 10,000 years.  

Can I prove that mankind is a lot older?  Spiritually, there is a logic or reason there.  God works in reasonable or particular ways.  Nothing new happens under the sun.  (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11)  It has all happened before.  Time goes in a circle.  Something to pray about as someone does some Bible Study.  

Addendum -  

Question:  Is there evidence somewhere that somehow ties older civilization to The Bible?

There is something buried off the coast of Tunis.  Was the Sahara Desert not a desert at some point?  There may have been a civilization there.  

Someone from Daniel generation, he found something in Babylon.  He saw it and thought, "This belongs to my God."  He took it.  It is buried around Jerusalem somewhere.  

I first mentioned these things in 2014.  They are still there.  

Question:  Is there a prophetic figure after Jesus?  

Enoch is to Noah as Elijah is to Elisha as Jesus is to......Not Jesus.