My response to the 2018 presentation by Thorwald C. Franke (Dld.) regarding the 9000 years of Atlantis. As far as I’m concerned, Thorwald has a point when he says that the timeline of Atlantis was aligned with the timeline of Egypt. This also applies to the Greek Bible, the Septuagint which was written in Alexandria. The timeline of this is slightly different from that of the Hebrew Bible for the reason mentioned. According to Franke, Egypt was founded in 11000 BC, which is Biblically absurd. Atlantis fell 9,000 years before Plato. I tend to say that the 2000 year difference points to the 2000 year gap between the first and second comings of Jesus. There are various typologies in the Bible that repeatedly point to those 2000 years. However, that 9000 years of Atlantis is clearly a rounded number. The question is when did Plato start calculating? From his 40th birthday? From his goldfish’s second birthday? The Hebrew Bible is very precise with its timeline. The Exodus of the Jews from Babylon was 1,000 years to the day after the Exodus from Egypt, also on Passover. Thorwald Franke further claims that Egypt was founded in 3000 BC. This was before the Flood of Noah. But then there was no Egypt. Thorwald Franke ignores the principle of the Biblical eons in the Bible which divide the chronology into separate panels. Each eon has its own world order. In the first two eons Atlantis could not exist because there were no islands or idols. At most, Enoch’s city in Genesis 4 was a blueprint for Atlantis. In the Bible Noah landed with his family and a zoo on Mount Ararat, in the Atlantis myth one Deucalion landed with his wife Pyrhha on Mount Parnas in Greece. If the two landing sites are so different, we may question the location and identity of Atlantis. In my own book, Atlantis in the Bible I have researched that Tarshish in Ezekiel 38:13 is Great Britain and not Spain. In the time of King Solomon there was already shipping on Tarshish. This means that the Strait of Gibraltar was indeed navigable. While Plato said that this Strait was blocked by the mud of Atlantis. Plato was also a false prophet who initiated the trinity. This poisonous teaching has poisoned Christianity. So we should be careful about taking the Atlantis story indiscriminately. The kings of Atlantis were not human but descendants of Poseidon. Thorwald never mentions the two storylines in the Atlantis epic, those of Atlantis and Athens. And he ignores the role of Plato’s idol Akademos. And he ignores the role of the idol Nebo mentioned in Isaiah 50:1. In short, Thorwald’s claim that the timeline of Atlantis was adapted to that of Egypt is true in itself, but this is where his argument ends. I advise researchers not to fixate too much on those 9,000 years. Theoplogically speaking, Atlantis may well lie in the future rather than in an elusive past. – leon elshout