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Satan-dominated earth and did a very thorough job of housecleaning. Dr. Howard
Kellogg, of Los Angeles, in his book entitled The Coming Kingdom and the
Re-Canopied Earth makes out a wonderful case, from both science and Scripture, for

his hypothesis that this earth was once covered with a canopy or surrounded by rings
(similar to those of the planet Saturn) which were successively precipitated upon the
earth in a series of pre-historic judgments. He believes that God caused the last of
these rings with the canopy of suspended waters (the waters that were above the

firmament) to fall at the time of the flood, since which time the earth has been
uncovered and the sun shines in a naked heaven increasing and accelerating
fermentation and decay. This, he believes, accounts for the sudden drop in the span of
years of human life from several centuries to the conventional “three score years and

ten.” We can heartily recommend this book as a valuable addition to the bibliography
dealing with the substantiation of divine revelation in the fields of pure science. A
much older book by Pember entitled Earth’s Earliest Ages we believe to contain the
most logical explanation extant of the mysterious passage—Gen. 6:4.

After the great purging of the earth that took place at the deluge, we find that the
seed of the serpent cropped out again from the line of Noah, who had become the head
of a new dispensation. Cush, the son of Ham, seems to have been the first to introduce

idolatrous worship. His son, Nimrod, was the first great conqueror, and he established
his kingdom in the plains of Shinar, ancient Babylon, from which in turn came ancient
Assyria. It was in the plains of Shinar that the erection of the tower of Babel was
attempted. Ancient records indicate that the city and tower were to be the center of

idolatrous worship as well as an intended refuge in the event of any future flood.
God‟s promise to Noah in the sign of the rainbow, in which He promised that “the
waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh” was disbelieved and
disregarded, and the serpent‟s lie again had full sway.

The instigators of this wickedness were probably Nimrod and his beautiful though
unscrupulous wife, Semiramis. After the death of Nimrod, Semiramis gave birth to a
son whom she declared to have been miraculously conceived and who, she said, was a

reincarnation of her husband, Nimrod, and his name was Tammuz. Here began the cult
of the mother and the child, which with some modifications may be traced through the
“mysteries” of ancient Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, later Babylon, Greece, and Rome,

and even in some measure in the Oriental idolatrous systems. So we see that millennia
beforehand the serpent was preparing a counterfeit in all the heathen mysteries for the
great fact of the incarnation and virgin birth of the eternal Son. It is a well-known fact
among scholars that many of the idolatrous features of Roman Catholicism are simply
revampings and adaptions of the Babylonian mysterious, For details concerning these

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