CREASIONIST TRUTHS

In his book God's Plan For Man, the author, Rev. Finis Jennings Dake, wrote in 1948 interalia about the origin of all things. He differentiates between past - present and future ages. The creative ages are the ages in the dateless past when the Creator created the vast heavens, sun, moon, stars and planets including the earth and all the innumerable things in the three heavens (2Cor. 12:2; Col. 1:15-18; Rom. 1:20). God created all the various kinds of spirits and human beings to inhabit the multiple planets in all the solar systems too. (Ibid., p.3).

Dake deals with five main ages, namely:

* The Antechaotic Age --since the very first creation until the chaotic state of the Earth in Gen. 1:2. Lucifer ruled during this period but due to pride, he fell and caused the Earth to become desolated ...(Ibid.,p.4.);

*  The Antediluvian Age -- "from the six days of the re-creation of the Heaven and of the Earth, as in Gen. 1:3-2:25 to the flood of Noah, or from the flood of Lucifer of Gen. 1:2 to the flood of Noah..." (Ibid.);

*  The present Age-- from Noah to the Millennium that follows the second coming of Christ and the Battle ofArmageddon in Rev. 19and 20;

*  The Age to Come--the Millennium since the second coming of Jesus and the Battle of Armageddon up to the New Earth in Rev. 21; and

*  The Age of Ages--eternity, time without end. (Ibid.)

To understand the view of true creationists like myself, the "eternal past" i.e. the dateless period before the beginning of time as it is revealed since the six days of Gen.1:3-2:25. (Cf. Dake, F.J. op cit.), is the pivotal period in which we should distinguish between the history of the"eternal past"  and a perpetual "eternal future" of Rev. 21-22 (Ibid.,p.7.)

There also exists celestial bodies in space and bodies terrestial as real as Earthly bodies, quotes Dake from 1 Cor. 15:35-50.

In summary, we believe in the true and original six day re- creation within  six real days in which God re-created the current world as we know it from the chaotic state of affairs that Lucifer left behind.  God then created  a Sabbath for man to experience an everlasting "rest in His works".  God's "rest" is a perpetual concept for believers to rest assured that all things seen and unseen leads to an eternal peace of mind in Christ. All the creation days started with "it was morning" and ends with "it was evening", however, in the Seventh day there is no morning and there is no evening...it perpetuates for ever and ever more !

My father, Barend Petrus De Beer meditated for  every long time about things he could not understand, but eventually came to rest with the Psalm that says: I finally founded my rest.  This inscription on his tombstone resembles his grandfather's in the Petrusburg Anglo Boer War Cemetery which reads: "Rust mijn ziel, Uv God is Koning".  Rest does not mean a passive state of affairs, but acts as a balancing point on which everything suspends eternally, namely God and His Creation.

THE SABBATH OF THE CREATOR

• The fixed time for the Sabbath of the Lord is displayed in the museum in honor of the Creator who created all things that we can see and not see in the whole universe.
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DNA TESTING: IDEAS OUTSIDE MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS

Graham Hancock, author of the book, SUPERNATURAL MEETINGS WITH THE ANCIENT TEACHERS OF MANKIND (2006), published by Arrow Books, The Random House Group Limited, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWIV 25A  stirs ideas inter alia on the mysteries of DNA patterns, spirals and symbols, however, not "...referring to the ordered and highly specific chemical instructions that DNA gives to our cells to assemble long chains of amino acids into proteins (page 556).  Tough Hancock quotes from an array of scientific sources, his work rather exposes the "vast apparent diversity of life on earth..."(page 579). Genetic codes and the like are too complex for us to understand, also in DNA research of individual humans. Fortunately, scientists can unravel the process in cell division of the mothers and fathers in family trees in layman's terms. Without exhausting the point, DNA scientists, like theologians are shaping the ideas of the creation of mankind (cf. Hancock, pp. 599-601). Without mincing with words, unexplained things occur in ones life too. For example, in my layman approach to research the DE BEER family roots, I was always astonished how I could trace my own family roots without substantial information from my family who were for one teacher, Uncle Boet De Beer (see previous Blog publications) farmers and technical trained people who had little interest in scientific historical research anyway.  I only followed up on a very vague remark of my grandfather, Carel Johannes De Beer, who's name was changed to Karel with a"K" in his first application for identification documents circa. 1957 (?), about a baptist ceremony that he attended of a relative in Kimberley and who were related to the "Diamond De Beer" family.  I was too small to understand him properly nor did I have any knowledge of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and their baptise ceremonies.

( As an adult, I took more notice of the contemporary history of our Afrikaner nation.  In one of my former career as a a contemporary historian at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of the Orange Free State, I was responsible for the Oral History archive and travelled a great deal to record the memories of politicians of the previous political era of South Africa. In the process I did some research on general James Barry Munnik Hertzog, one of the previous prime ministers and who was also responsible for Foreign Affairs. He was a reader of Albert Einstein's relativity theory while his political rival, general Jan Christian Smuts who succeeded him as prime minister, wrote a book on HOLISM.  Subsequently I was exposed to more than historical facts but to their readings of ancient philosophers that may or may not have formed their minds as well .)

As I moved on into anther career as a distance education practitioner, my interest in my grand father's remark surfaced when I did some work for the Central University of Technology (CUT) in the Northern Cape, Kimberley. I recalled that one of my late aunts, Auntie Dolly van der Berg (née de Beer) did mentioned something about the graves of a twin brother of her father that was buried near Petrusburg in the Free State.  I travelled regularly passed many graves in the veld an enquired after the names on the tombstones, but all in vain.  Eventually a farmer's wife on the farm Voigtspos directed me to the Voortrekker grave yard where I discovered my great- great grand father's grave (cf. previous Blog publications). His name was spelt Barent with a "t" and not the "d" as in my own father's name Barend Petrus De Beer.  The rest of my family that were still alive at that stage (1995), were astonished about their own family history.  Soon some bits and peaces shaped the rest of the family history, however, not the relation to the "Diamond De Beer"- roots...

Readers of my Blog phoned me (Gerrit Wessels) and directed me to the grave of the famous Nicholas De Beer in the Boshof district of the Free State next to the Vaalriver. Gerrit took me to the Seventh Day Adventist Church Museum in Beacons field, Kimberley, where I unravelled that part of the De Beer family thus far. Yes, I agree, I followed some substantial "hints" about my family, however, most of the time, I followed up on hunches and "insignificant information"...e.g the grave of the "notorious Nicholas De Beer" who's name perpetuated in the famous DEBEER diamond industry.  Strange as it may sound, only a few people--even historians-- knew where this man with the famous name was buried...

Subsequently, I hope to unravel the rest of my family history with DNA tests in 2012.

DNA tests on some members of the De Beer family tree will be conducted at the beginning of 2012 by a researcher of the University of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa.  Although this is a very exiting field in family research, scientists agree that only 3% of the gene history can be studied while the actual function of  the rest of the 97% will still remain a mystery in biotechnology, says the renowned author, Graham Hancock, in his book: Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, page 553.(Arrow Books. 2005. www.rbooks.co.uk  British Library. ISBN 9780099474159.)

Pieter Wessels is the actual founder of the Seven Day Adventist Church in Africa. During the diamond rush in Kimberley, Pieter got convinced that Saturday is the Sabbath of the Lord. Subsequently, he got into contact with the Seven Day Adventist Church denomination in the United States of America. He and the De Beer's, who sold their farm, Vooruitzicht, to Cecil John Rhodes, initiated the establishment of this denomination in Beaconsfield, Kimberley. Booklets of the Kimberley church museum reflects upon the first roots of this denomination and will be published at a later stage with supportive photographs.