In the last article we saw how God’s timing and description of the events of the first six days of creation are in exact agreement with modern science. But what about the events and dating during the historically fuzzy period from Adam to the flood? Is there any way to see if what little historical data there is for those years might coincide with Biblical accounts? Let’s look at one obscure scripture from that period and “search out the matter.”

        The fourth chapter of Genesis tells us about the descendants of Cain, of Cain and Abel fame. Verse 22 says, “Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.” That may be interesting reading but is there a reason God would have included it in His Word? As with virtually every sentence in the Bible we might be surprised at what we might find if we dig deeper.

        The Holy Scriptures are chocked full of things like numbers of years a person lived, and ages of people when they had their first son, etc. From these Biblical statements the Israelites came up with their calendar, using the creation of Adam as its beginning. According to the Hebrew calendar we are now in year 5769.

        Getting back to “searching out the matter” in the selected verse that tells us that Tubal-Cain forged tools out of bronze, the Bible does not give us years and ages for his lineage from Cain up to him, but it does list his ancestors by name. His mother was Zillah and his father was Lamech, his grandfather was Methushael, and before them came Mehujael, Irad, Enoch, Cain and Adam. The subject of our search, Tubal-Cain, was the last in the line prior to the flood, which wiped out all of Cain’s descendants.

        If we look at Seth, Cain’s brother, we can trace his descendants up to Noah, and since the age of the father at each son’s birth is given, we can even come up with a date for the flood, when our hero, Tubal-Cain, obviously died. To be exact, Adam and Eve had Seth when Adam was 130, Seth had Enosh at age 105, Enosh had Kenan at age 90, Kenan had Mahalalel at age 70, who had Jared at 65, who had Enoch at 162, who had Methusaleh at 65, who had Lamech at 187, who had Noah at 182. Noah was 600 when the flood came.

        Using a mid point of Noah’s 600 years before the flood we can add up those numbers and come up with about 1,350 years after the arrival of Adam for Tubal-Cain to be working in his home made bronze tool factory. By subtracting 1,350 years from today’s Jewish year of 5769 we find ourselves back at about 2400 BC when the Bible asserts that Tubal-Cain was forging all kinds of tools with bronze. What is so fascinating about that is that of all of the millions and millions of bronze age artifacts that have been uncovered by archeologists and carbon dated, the oldest dates back to the same date of 2400 BC.

        The Bible is always 100% accurate. Always. Since we know that science does occasionally make mistakes, rather than science being used to prove the Bible, scientists should look to the Bible to prove their findings. The Bible is always 100% accurate. Always.