And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute. And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. (Genesis 4:20-22)

Early Man Deliberately Made Fire

In a recent Fox News article, scientists shatter a supposed timeline of human fire-making with a “400,000-year-old” discovery in England. The study, published in the journal Nature on December 10, centered on a site in Barnham, England, that, according to scientists, dates to the Paleolithic era, the longest era of human prehistory. During the excavation, a team led by the British Museum found flint hand axes, a patch of baked clay, and fragments of iron pyrite. The iron pyrite was likely struck against flint to produce fire. A British Museum curator declared it was the most exciting discovery of his 40-year career. The find has created a major chronological shift in how the world understands “prehistoric man” and the origins of fire-making.

What surprises scientists is how early man was actually making fire, and the fact that they were making it. The general view of early man is that he evolved from the superfamily Hominoidea species into an intelligent creature of today. In other words, humans evolved from the Ape family. Since early man evolved from apes, he was an ignorant, animalistic creature unable to create fire until, miraculously, 400,000 years ago, he learned how to light a match. Scientists are astounded by the amazing discovery. Believers are bemused at how ignorant the intellectual world continues to show itself, fooled by the wiles of the great deceiver. The Bible states that in the beginning, early man knew how to create and control fire.

Adam and Eve were the first humans. Every Bible-believing follower accepts the account of Moses that Adam and Eve were the first humans to walk on earth. If a scientist rejects the Genesis account, he has removed the only answer to early man that proves who he is and where he came from. Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. When God punished Cain for killing his brother Abel, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden. He had a son named Enoch, and Cain built a city named after his son. In the genealogy of Cain, Jabal was the father of those who lived in tents and raised livestock. Early man knew how to make tents and care for livestock.

Jabal had a brother named Jubal, who was the father of all those who played the harp and flute. Early man knew how to make musical instruments of various types. One of Lamech’s wives, Zillah, had a son named Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron. The Genesis accounts confirm that the earliest people on earth not only knew about fire but also how to harness its power to build cities, care for livestock, make musical instruments, and work with iron ore.

Metallurgy is a very dangerous science. Arsenic occurs naturally in the environment as an element of the earth’s crust, and if a man does not know how to handle the ore of any metal properly, he will not live long. The early generation of Cain knew how to find ore in the ground to form bronze and iron. Bronze is not found in nature as a pure metal but is created through the combination of copper and tin. The process involves smelting copper and tin ore and combining them at high temperatures to form an alloy. Tubal-Cain knew how to work with ore and fire to create tools.

God has shown modern man how advanced early man was to show that man is not a creature formed from the DNA of apes but the image of an eternal God. It is almost laughable that scientists get so excited about finding early man using fire when Moses wrote about it three thousand years ago, and little children have known about it for thousands of years. If a man reads the Bible, he will know and understand where man came from. It is not hard to picture Adam and Eve warming themselves with the glow of a beautiful fire.