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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What's with all these asteroids and what do they mean?

I can’t jump to any conclusions but I would say the heavens are trying to tell us something.

Short write up on the asteroids, how far they are and when they will be their closest.  None of them will be close enough to hit the earth but it is more significant that they appear at the time of the Fall Feasts. I’ve compared these asteroids with NASA’s JPL and Stellarium  and added EW Bullingers’ definitions of the constellations from his book Witness of the Stars.  The meanings are quite astounding. 

For perspective the moon is:
Moon is .0027AU orbiting the earth

Asteroids:
2011 SE58 .0023AU 9/27 back side of earth from sun 9/29 crosses between the earth & sun .0167 AU
On the 27th in the leg of Scorpio then on the 29th jumps to Cancer

2011 SR25 .193AU 9/27-9/29 stays on the back side of earth
In the head of Pegasus

2011 SO5 .0145 AU 9/30 Back side crosses to front side 10/1 .0166AU
On the 29th in the head of Orion, on the 30th in the club of Orion

When I say back side think 2 dimentionally.
Sun        Earth     Asteriod
If the asteroid is on the back side I mean it is not between the earth and the sun. 

Here are the constellation definitions for the 29th of September, 2011, when the asteroids will be crossing through.  If the plug-ins are correct for Stellarium this is what we have for Rosh Hashanah.

On the 29th

SE58 in Cancer
Messiah’s Redeemed Possessions held fast. The Arabic name is Al Sartan which means who holds or binds, and may be from the Hebrew to bind together.  In the center of the sign there is a remarkably bright cluster of stars so bright that they can be sometimes seen with the naked eye. It looks like a comet, and is made up of a great multitude of stars.  Modern astronomers have called it the Beehive. But its ancient name has come now to us as Praesepe, which means a multitude, offspring.

SO5 in the head of Orion
Light breaking forth in the Redeemer, The Coming Prince, Coming forth as light.  

SR25 Neck of Pegasus
The brightest star on the neck Hebrew name is Markab which means returning from afar. Not only shall they be received but they shall be brought near. They will not have to be fetched, but they will be caused to come to those for whom they are procured, and will yet be brought by Him who has procured them.

This is just a quick rundown but if you combine this with elenin in the brow of Virgo and Venus the bright and morning star in the belly of Virgo, with the moon at her feet this paints quite a picture.  I would guess that this doesn’t happen all that often, lol.  For better descriptions of Virgo see my previous blog post about the birth of Jesus and the Fall Feasts.

Friday, September 23, 2011

What Day Was Jesus Born? The Fall Feasts, Signs In The Heavens


It has never been my intention to be controversial for the sake of controversy.  The reason I think things seem controversial is that the devil has found a way to bind us in tradition so that we become emotionally attached to an idea, thereby causing controversy when questioned.  The devil seems to have found that blinding the minds of people keeps them from knowing Christ more fully.  I’m sure most people have heard, studied or questioned that the date we claim that Jesus was born, December 25th is not accurate.  If you are a Catholic you would wonder why the date of the Immaculate Conception falls on December 8th of 2010 when Jesus was born December 25th.  Catholics wonder if Mary was pregnant for 17 days or 382 days.  I do as well. Something doesn’t seem right as Mary’s pregnancy was either the shortest pregnancy or the longest pregnancy in history.  We know Mary visited Elizabeth when Elizabeth was six months pregnant and stayed with Elizabeth for about three months.  So we have eliminated the shortest pregnancy in history and now have the longest pregnancy in history.  Or was Jesus born on a different day?

This was a subject that was talked about widely in the early 80’s as the Jesus movement of the 70’s brought into Christianity a lot of young adults who recognized that Jesus was not religious.  Traditions were no longer simply accepted but questioned and explored.  This is the thinking that some in the church condemned as rebellious, however this is also the thinking that teaches us more about the bible then the passivity of accepting and following tradition and practice blindly.  We do have one problem however.  The “world” accepts that Jesus was born on December 25th and as soon as Halloween is over we are allowed to promote Christmas.  And just like the devil to first mess up the date of Jesus’ birth, we now have to fight to have songs about his birth playing in our stores at Christmas time.  Simply this is not a revolution to change the date of Jesus birth but if it turns out that we are forced to take Jesus out of the Christmas season we have a fall back date that the world cannot take away as it already exists as a holiday without commercialism.  Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for presents, but the fact is that Jesus’ birthday doesn’t require gift giving. Therefore the devil cannot push the issue of taking Christ out of Christmas too hard or else Christianity will defect to Jesus’ actual birthday. 

I have previously written about this and will include several sites where research has been done.  There are three points I think we should look at, the physical dates, the astronomical signs in the heavens, and the bible codes.  I am grateful for those who have done so much research in this field, and I am thankful for the internet so that we can pull all the information together.  The principal date for the birth of Jesus is Tishri 1 of 3 BC.  Evidence of this day has been predominately researched in the area of Mary and her time of purification, and the astronomical occurrences in the heavens on Tishri 1 as well as what the Magi saw that announced the birth of the Messiah.  The evidence that seals the deal is the evidence of the bible codes, equidistant letter spacing (ELS). With this information, we have an indisputable date and year, Rosh Hashanah 3 BC. Because the Jewish calendar (a lunar cycle) is not the same as the Gregorian calendar (a solar cycle) Rosh Hashanah changes each year. For 2011 Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown on the 29th of September.  This is the day of blowing 100 trumpets in a call to repentance.  It is the day that Adam was created.  It is the day that Adam and Eve left the garden.  It is the day that Noah sent out the dove that brought back the olive branch. It is the day that Isaac was bound by Abraham. And it is also the day of Jesus’ birth. We have the first man Adam and the last man born on the same date.

The bible uses the expression that “No man knows the date or hour” as a Hebrew idiom for Rosh Hashanah because it is the time when the moon just starts to pass from a new moon (no moon visible) into a waxing moon (a crescent).  The tradition is that as soon as the first sliver of moon could be seen and confirmed by two witnesses the trumpets would blow and the celebration would begin.  During the day you could not prepare because you could not see the moon or what phase it was in.  Tishri is the seventh month and the first day is the day that the moon makes its first appearance as a sliver of a crescent.  This is why no man knows the day or hour that the trumpets will blow.

The Exact Day of Jesus’ Birth
The apostle John is presenting to his readers something of profound significance in a symbolic way. Revelation 12:1–3 shows a New Moon day that could only be observed from earth just after sunset, and the day was September 11th. This fits well with Luke’s description of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Recall that,
“there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over the flock by night ... and the angel said ... unto you is born this day [which began at sundown] in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
·         Luke 2:8–11
Jesus was born in early evening, and Revelation 12 shows it was a New Moon day.
What New Moon could this have been? The answer is most amazing. It is almost too amazing! September 11, 3 B.C.E. was Tishri One on the Jewish calendar. To Jewish people this would have been a very profound occasion indeed. Tishri One is none other than the Jewish New Year’s day (Rosh ha-Shanah, or as the Bible calls it, The Day of Trumpets ― Leviticus 23:23–26). It was an important annual holy day of the Jews (but not one of the three annual festivals that required all Palestinian Jews to be in Jerusalem).
What a significant day for the appearance of the Messiah to arrive on earth from the Jewish point of view! And remarkably, no other day of the year could astronomically fit Revelation 12:1–3. The apostle John is certainly showing forth an astronomical sign which answers precisely with the Jewish New Year Day. John would have realized the significance of this astronomical scene that he was describing.
The Star That Astonished the World by Ernest L Martin

One way you can look at the stars and the astronomical alignments for yourself is to download a free program called Stellarium. This program will allow you to see the planets in their constellations at any date.  One note however, there is no year zero (0) and stellarium runs from positive numbers to negative numbers with a year 0.  Therefore your year 3 BC is actually -2.  Other paid programs do not have this issue as they can move from BC to AD.  I will add a link in the end notes.

The planets’ alignment for Rosh Hashanah of 3 BC shows Venus and Mercury in Virgo, with Jupiter in Leo. We see in 2011 that Venus and Saturn are in her mid-section while Mercury is at her shoulder and comet Elenin is in her hair, and the tail of the comet would create a line along her brow line.  And as we can see in comparing both years of 3BC and 2011, the sliver of moon is at her feet. (Keep in mind that the pictures are an artist’s rendering of Virgo the outline of the constellation is what we need to look at.  Interestingly this alignment of Venus and Saturn in Virgo’s belly only happens this year, 2011. In some of the following Rosh Hashanah years ahead this is not the case as I looked at Rosh Hashanah through to 2015. So this is a unique alignment.

Rev 12:1-2 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.KJV

This is the first sign in the heavens written in Revelation 12. On September 29th,  2011, the Sun is in Virgo, the Moon is at her feet and moving under her feet.  Virgo has 12 stars at her head, along with Elenin and its tail. Venus, the bright and morning star is at her midsection along with Saturn.  However as we move into day two of Rosh Hashanah, the 30th, Venus drops out of her mid section as if it has been birthed and the Moon drops into Libra, signifying judgment.  All of this happening on Rosh Hashanah of this year, the day of Jesus’ birth 2,014 years ago, and tells the story of the feasts, repentance, judgment, the coming King.

If we look at NASA’s JPL site for Rosh Hashanah this year 9/29/2011 we see planetary alignments on that date with the comet Elenin. On the 29th Elenin will be located in Virgo’s head/hair which you can find if you add a plug-in onto stellarium. You can get directions by doing an internet search on “how to find Elenin in Stellarium”.  If our culture was an astronomically observant culture we would be interested in the planetary alignments.  Some great works to read are by Joseph Seiss , EW Bullinger, and Helena Lehman, which explain the Christian view of astronomy.  We should also remember from our research into Abraham going into Egypt that it was Abraham that taught the Egyptians about the constellations, their meanings, and their announcement of the coming Savior. What we do know from planetary alignments is that there is a greater pulling and pushing of our electromagnetic fields and this seems to cause increases in earthquake activity and volcanic eruptions.  What does all this mean? I don’t know, but I do know that there will be signs in the heavens and that is what I am to watch.  I am alright with not having answers to everything but I am willing to explore possibilities.

Luke 21:8-12 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. KJV

First Jesus says that there will be people that say they are the Christ, don’t follow them.  It could also be interpreted that there will be people that say Jesus is the Christ and they are His representative, but don’t follow them.  Food for thought.  Then he says Nation will rise… Nation is gentile nations that rise against the other gentile nations, not gentiles rising against the Jewish nations.  He then goes on to say there will be earthquakes, and the rest and then he says “but”. Before that the ones he was speaking to, his disciples at that time would be betrayed and killed for being associated with him. 

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. KJV

He then tells them about what would happen when Rome would encompass Jerusalem in 70 AD.  Jerusalem has been abominated five times and desolated twice.  It was abominated by Shishak, Antiochus, Pompay, Sossius and Herod.  It was desolated by Babylon and Vespasian, since the final desolation there has been no temple to worship in, in Jerusalem. 

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. KJV

Jesus then says the Jews would be led away into all nations until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.KJV

Luke 21:25-28 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.KJV

After his disciples would be persecuted, Jesus says then Jersulam would fall. Then the Jews would be scattered all over the world until the days of the gentiles being grafted in are complete. Then there will be more earthquakes, more volcanoes erupting, more floods, harsh winters (as noted in the Aramaic texts) more turmoil everywhere, then look up.  Jesus laid out a timeline. What do we see when we look up, besides chem trails and falling space debris? We could see signs in the heavens.  If we understood the importance of the Feasts and the birth of Christ at the Fall Feasts, we would be far more circumspect in our walk. 

As just a fun “trouble making” side note, astrology is off in its dating of birthdates in constellations.  You can see in Stellarium that your birthday plugged into the system will show accurately what constellation you were born under.  The dates are off by about -15 days to almost -30 days or so.  Therefore you may not be born under the star sign you have been told your whole life. I believe the earth’s wobble was never taken into consideration, therefore, one more reason not to bother reading your horoscope.

With the understanding that Jesus was born on Rosh Hashanah, Tishri 1 of 3BC, we could then observe the Fall Feasts with new insight. The Fall Feasts are our time to remember the Messiah’s birth, repent, re-connect with God, and plan our future walk with God.  As kings and priests in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not under the law that Jesus fulfilled, we can remember the fall feasts from a non legal perspective. On one hand it is a solemn time to confess our sins to God for his plan of absolution, on the other hand it is the time we rejoice in Messiahs’ birth and anxiously await his return.  As we observe the signs in the heavens and the signs in the earth, and ponder their meaning, we can look backwards through history to search out the biblical truths of the past.  I have left a huge amount of material in the end notes so that I don’t duplicate the work that others have already done.  Three things to look at are the dates in the bible, the signs in the heavens, and the words encoded in the bible, the bible codes.     


End Notes:
Stellarium.org

NASA’s JPL site small body data base with comet elenin alignment

Bible Codes for Jesus’ birth 9/11/3 BC

The Star that Astonished the World – on line book

No man knows the day or hour/ Rosh Hashanah

Babylon Mystery Religion, by Ralph Woodrow

What day was Jesus born

Signs in the Heaven

More signs in the Heavens

Astronomy Video

Difference between zodiac signs and why



What day was Jesus born - article
      September 11th             3 B.C. 

When was Jesus born? 
The traditional day celebrated in the church is December 25,
although that day wasn't designated until about 360 AD. 
      How can we know the exact day, and nearly the hour, of the birth of Jesus?

      Simple arithmatic.  A child could have done it, if only the basic assumptions had been
correct.  But they weren't.  In the 19th century, critical scholars made a crucial decision
 
to reject a total lunar eclipse in January 1 BC and to accept instead one in March 4 BC,
 
as the chronological cornerstone for dating the death of Herod the Great, and thereby,
the possible birth years for Jesus.

      By so doing, the critics could argue Jesus had to born before 4 BC,  contradicting
Luke, who tied Jesus' 30th year to the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, 27-28 AD.  Luke
effectively placed the birth in 3 BC, as did many of the early church fathers.  Ironically,
even the date used by the Pope during the Christmas Eve midnight mass ritual is itself
 
consistent with the last half of 3 BC.

      All the available evidence has always pointed at the harvest period of 3 BC
as the focal point of the Nativity--including the possibility of a late
 summer birth. 

      In his second chapter, Luke tells what happened the day Mary came to the
Temple for purification 40 days after the birth of Jesus.  All one has to know is what
 
day this was.  Luke plainly
 names the day.  In fact, he includes three statements 
identifying the day.  So what day was this?

      Yom Kippur.  The Day of Atonement.  The 10th day of the seventh month of the
Hebrew calendar.
 
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      In Luke's time, Yom Kippur was called three things: The day of the "Fast," the day
of the "Purification,"and the day of "Redemption."  Luke uses
 all three to identify the
day Jesus was brought to the Temple.  And he even quotes the Torah rule that mandates
the 40-day period for the mother to wait after the child's birth [Lk 2:22-38].

      And if there were any doubt that it was Yom Kippur,  Luke tells of a woman named
Anna who had been in the Temple for a "night and day"
 without leaving.  There was
ONLY ONE DAY A YEAR when a person could pray overnight in the Temple: Yom
Kippur.  All other days, the Temple was locked at sundown.

      This shows the 40th day of Mary's Purification had begun at the
 end of Yom Kippur,
the end of the 10th day of the 7th month, because we know the Purification was done at
the earliest opportunity--at the
 beginning of the 40th day after birth.  And since the 6th
month normally had only 29 days, simple arithmatic shows Mary's 39 days of Purification
had to have begun around sundown on the 1st day of the 6th month, called Elul.

      This was the night of the first sighting of the new moon of Elul.  The Magi in Babylon
were recording this sunset sliver of the new moon on a clay tablet.  The cuneiform tablet
the Magi made at that hour 2000 years ago, along with thousands of others from Babylon,
resides in the British Museum.  It is possible that this clay tablet was inscribed by one of
the famous Magi who later brought a strange set of gifts to Bethlehem.  So the new moon
seen by the Magi in Babylon at the very moment of Jesus being born is recorded on one of
the tablets now in London.  Cuneiform scholars have identified the date on this tablet as
equivalent to September, 11, 3 BC.

      The Hebrew lunar calendar dates vary with respect to our solar calendar.  So the 1st
of Elul was September 11th in 3 BC, but began on August 22 in 1998.  The same was true
in the days of the early church, of course.  In a given year, the 1st of Elul could have fallen
on September 8th, for example.

      This may solve another ancient mystery.  No one seems to know how Rome came to
honor September 8th as the birthday of Mary.  There is no Biblical,  historical,  or church
tradition to explain it.  It just emerges out of nowhere.  Rome keeps the 8th of December as
the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary [ie. conceived without original sin].  It is
a holy day of obligation for all Catholics to attend Mass.  This feast is clearly based upon
September 8th also, and mortal sin is attached to the failure of a Catholic to observe it, yet
the origins of these dates are unknown.

      On the other hand, we can now see that if Jesus were born on September 11th as Luke
indicates, then Jesus would have been conceived around December 8th in 4 BC. The now
mysterious Mary dates fit Jesus quite well.  How might this have happened?

      In the late 4th century, in early 380 AD, Pope Damasus I was endeavoring to force all
Christians in the Roman Empire to yield to his authority.  He got the Emperor to issue an
edict requiring them to practice the religion of  Rome.  We know that it is about this time
the Christmas midnight Mass was first celebrated and December 25th first identified as a
Catholic holy day.  It is said Damasus was seeking to lure the people away from pagan
rites honoring the birth of the sun god at midnight by compelling Catholic attendance at a
memorial in honor of Christ's death, ie the Mass. The people confused this Mass with the
pagan solar birth rituals conducted at that same time.  Gradually, the Christ-Mass became
associated with the Nativity.
 

      Meanwhile, the true feast around September 8th, which naturally honored Mary in
giving birth to Jesus, was converted into a day commemorating her own birth, and an old
holyday honoring the conception of Jesus was converted into a day commemorating the
conception of Mary on December 8th.  Strangely, there is still widespread belief among
non-Catholics that this is the day Jesus was concieved--a possible lingering remembrance
of the original meaning of this date.

      We can also tell from Luke's Gospel that Jesus had been born in early evening, for
Luke says the shepherds were keeping watch by night, but still had time to go into town
and tell the people what they had seen earlier that evening.  People rose early with the sun
in those days, and would have been asleep by 9 or 10 pm.  Therefore, the birth had taken
place no later than 8 pm, and probably before 7 pm.  Yet Luke says it happened at  night,
which means after sunset--surely after 6 pm in September.  Hence, it follows that Jesus
was born within a few minutes of 6:30-7:30 pm on the evening of September 11th, 3 BC.

      A confirmation of this time is in the book of Revelation.  Historian Ernest L. Martin
consulted NASA lunar-phase tables and found the image of the heavens in Revelation 12
showed where the sun and the moon were, relative to Virgo, at the time Jesus was born,
pin-pointing sunset of September 11th of 3 BC.  It seems the moon moves so quickly it is
"beneath the feet" of Virgo only a few hours every month.  Moreover, the moon comes
within two lunar diameters of Virgo's feet at the time of a new moon but once in  30 years.
The only such occurance any time near the birth of Jesus was on September 11th, 3 BC.

      Most previous attempts at determining the birth time were based upon astrology and
dating the Star of Bethlehem.  No one considered 3 BC because that year had erroneously
been assumed to follow Herod's death.  However, Dr. Martin has proven that Herod did
not die in 4 BC, but in 1 BC.  Scholars are now generally accepting the new chronology for
Herod, and this in turn has allowed the confirmation of the New Testament date for the
birth of Jesus.  Unfortunately, many churches continue to promote the critics' errors and
paganized traditions about the Nativity.

      You may want to read more detail on the subject.
Above article was NOT published by the author of the book
"
Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed". Book contains detailed charts, 
calendars and scripture verse indexes. This book was published in 1982.
I read the book and strongly recommend it. It is very detailed, easy to understand.
I do NOT sell the book but you may request it at →
 
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Sodom Part 4, The Season of Fall Feasts, Lot’s Wife



In exploring Sodom thus far we have seen little of their sexual sin as a primary reason for God destroying them.  We have seen how they had community orgies, treated visitors poorly, not letting them eat, stealing from them and taking them to court with ridiculous laws.  We saw how Abraham’s closest servant was mistreated when he went to Sodom to see if Lot was doing alright.  We have also seen how they mistreated the poor and anyone who wanted to help the poor. Josephus however has a very clear and definitive story that magnifies the sexual sin of Sodom.  I think when we take into account all the details from Jasher, Jubilees and Josephus, and we then compare it to the Bible we get a very clear picture of the sins of Sodom. Their pride was detestable to God.  Sodom was not a nice place on many fronts, but in our modern culture we tend to focus only on the sexual sin as a problem when really it was the whole package.  Unjust judges, stealing, twisting and manipulating, and not caring for the poor along with sexual sin as we saw quarterly orgies and demanding the raping of the Angels and other visitors were all part of the things God was displeased with.  Typically we hear preached that their sodomitical practices were the only offensive thing that God was upset about. But it seems that they were simply too rich and prideful to care about oppressing others.

We see from Josephus is that Abraham grieved for the people of Sodom.  That is the true heart of the Melchizedek Priesthood.  We should be grieving for the lost, not condemning the lost.  We should grieve that there are people who treat the poor horribly and who torture the innocent as well. Society is a mess and we should be grieved about it all.  Everywhere Abraham went he taught the people and made them believers of God. Lot didn’t or couldn’t do that in Sodom.  It is no wonder why Abraham negotiated for the people, expecting a few righteous folk to be living there.  But for whatever reason, no one but Lot’s family knew about God or was interested in serving God.  That seems to be something that happens to people who are rich and prideful.

Josephus’ account of Sodom is quite interesting.

CHAPTER 11.
HOW GOD OVERTHREW THE NATION OF THE SODOMITES, OUT OF HIS WRATH AGAINST THEM FOR THEIR SINS.
1. ABOUT this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices. God was therefore much displeased at them, and determined to punish them for their pride, and to overthrow their city, and to lay waste their country, until there should neither plant nor fruit grow out of it.
2. When God had thus resolved concerning the Sodomites, Abraham, as he sat by the oak of Mambre, at the door of his tent, saw three angels; and thinking them to be strangers, he rose up, and saluted them, and desired they would accept of an entertainment, and abide with him; to which, when they agreed, he ordered cakes of meal to be made presently; and when he had slain a calf, he roasted it, and brought it to them, as they sat under the oak. Now they made a show of eating; and besides, they asked him about his wife Sarah, where she was; and when he said she was within, they said they would come again hereafter, and find her become a mother. Upon which the woman laughed, and said that it was impossible she should bear children, since she was ninety years of age, and her husband was a hundred. Then they concealed themselves no longer, but declared that they were angels of God; and that one of them was sent to inform them about the child, and two of the overthrow of Sodom.
3. When Abraham heard this, he was grieved for the Sodomites; and he rose up, and besought God for them, and entreated him that he would not destroy the righteous with the wicked. And when God had replied that there was no good man among the Sodomites; for if there were but ten such man among them, he would not punish any of them for their sins, Abraham held his peace. And the angels came to the city of the Sodomites, and Lot entreated them to accept of a lodging with him; for he was a very generous and hospitable man, and one that had learned to imitate the goodness of Abraham. Now when the Sodomites saw the young men to be of beautiful countenances, and this to an extraordinary degree, and that they took up their lodgings with Lot, they resolved themselves to enjoy these beautiful boys by force and violence; and when Lot exhorted them to sobriety, and not to offer any thing immodest to the strangers, but to have regard to their lodging in his house; and promised that if their inclinations could not be governed, he would expose his daughters to their lust, instead of these strangers; neither thus were they made ashamed.
4. But God was much displeased at their impudent behavior, so that he both smote those men with blindness, and condemned the Sodomites to universal destruction. But Lot, upon God's informing him of the future destruction of the Sodomites, went away, taking with him his wife and daughters, who were two, and still virgins; for those that were betrothed (21) to them were above the thoughts of going, and deemed that Lot's words were trifling. God then cast a thunderbolt upon the city, and set it on fire, with its inhabitants; and laid waste the country with the like burning, as I formerly said when I wrote the Jewish War. (22) But Lot's wife continually turning back to view the city as she went from it, and being too nicely inquisitive what would become of it, although God had forbidden her so to do, was changed into a pillar of salt; (23) for I have seen it, and it remains at this day. Now he and his daughters fled to a certain small place, encompassed with the fire, and settled in it: it is to this day called Zoar, for that is the word which the Hebrews use for a small thing. There it was that he lived a miserable life, on account of his having no company, and his want of provisions.
5. But his daughters, thinking that all mankind were destroyed, approached to their father, (24) though taking care not to be perceived. This they did, that human kind might not utterly fail: and they bare sons; the son of the elder was named Moab, Which denotes one derived from his father; the younger bare Ammon, which name denotes one derived from a kinsman. The former of whom was the father of the Moabites, which is even still a great nation; the latter was the father of the Ammonites; and both of them are inhabitants of Celesyria. And such was the departure of Lot from among the Sodomites.

That is Josephus’ story of Sodom, in later times Josephus writes about what the Dead Sea was like at Vespasian’s time.  The Dead Sea, as we know it today was known by the Greeks as Lake Asphaltitis.  Not only was the land uninhabitable but the water was non life giving as well. I find it fascinating that the bitumen (tar) that was on the lake was used for healing men as well as sealing boats. Today many bath products come out of that area because of the high mineral content.

 When I visited the Dead Sea it was quite odd to walk into the water because the high salt content causes you to float in a foot of water, you truly can’t stand or walk out into the water. People who could not swim could easily float in the Dead Sea.  It also seems to be a ritual of tourists to cover one’s body in mud, as a do it yourself spa treatment.  After playing around, synchronized swimming, and mud baths, we found our skin was very soft and smooth.  Yet in the back of my mind I thought of the incinerated people who used to live there.  The Dead Sea is a very unusual place.

CHAPTER 8.
AN ACCOUNT BESIDES OF THE LAKE ASPHALTITIS.
4. The nature of the lake Asphaltitis is also worth describing. It is, as I have said already, bitter and unfruitful. It is so light [or thick] that it bears up the heaviest things that are thrown into it; nor is it easy for any one to make things sink therein to the bottom, if he had a mind so to do. Accordingly, when Vespasian went to see it, he commanded that some who could not swim should have their hands tied behind them, and be thrown into the deep, when it so happened that they all swam as if a wind had forced them upwards. Moreover, the change of the color of this lake is wonderful, for it changes its appearance thrice every day; and as the rays of the sun fall differently upon it, the light is variously reflected. However, it casts up black clods of bitumen in many parts of it; these swim at the top of the water, and resemble both in shape and bigness headless bulls; and when the laborers that belong to the lake come to it, and catch hold of it as it hangs together, they draw it into their ships; but when the ship is full, it is not easy to cut off the rest, for it is so tenacious as to make the ship hang upon its clods till they set it loose with the menstrual blood of women, and with urine, to which alone it yields. This bitumen is not only useful for the caulking of ships, but for the cure of men's bodies; accordingly, it is mixed in a great many medicines. The length of this lake is five hundred and eighty furlongs, where it is extended as far as Zoar in Arabia; and its breadth is a hundred and fifty. The country of Sodom borders upon it. It was of old a most happy land, both for the fruits it bore and the riches of its cities, although it be now all burnt up. It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning; in consequence of which there are still the remainders of that Divine fire, and the traces [or shadows] of the five cities are still to be seen, as well as the ashes growing in their fruits; which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten, but if you pluck them with your hands, they dissolve into smoke and ashes. And thus what is related of this land of Sodom hath these marks of credibility which our very sight affords us.

In the book The Wisdom of Sirach we find that Jesus ben Sirach points out that ungodliness and rebelliousness bring the fire of God, without God’s remorse.  
Ecclus 16:5-9 (Sirach) 5 Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear hath heard greater things than these.6 In the congregation of the ungodly shall a fire be kindled; and in a rebellious nation wrath is set on fire.7 He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.8 Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for their pride.9 He pitied not the people of perdition, who were taken away in their sins:KJV

Luke 17:28-33 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.32 Remember Lot's wife.33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.KJV

Jesus makes a statement about Lot’s wife that is quite disturbing.  Remember Lot’s wife. We can ponder that for quite a while and end up in so many different directions.  We know that Lot’s wife was a mother of several children.  At this time some were married and two were betrothed. We know Lot went out from his house to warn his family but his son’s in law thought he was silly and did not want to leave the city.  Therefore Lot’s wife was probably upset that some of her children were being incinerated in Sodom.  How would you react when the Lord returns if your family members are not caught up and are left on earth to suffer the tribulation.  It takes a lot of soul searching and a lot of reconciling to realize that some of our loved ones may be left to suffer the tribulation and that we cannot look back, otherwise we would be like Lot’s wife.  There is nothing we can do for the ones who are not gathered together, we can’t save them, only Jesus can.  We can’t protect them during the tribulation either.  We have to be settled in our hearts to lose our earthly life to live with Christ no matter who doesn’t come along.  For some people this is a huge issue that needs to be reconciled within before the Lord returns. We know there is sanctification, a setting apart for the unbeliever, but we don’t know how that fits into the rapture, since this is Paul’s opinion not the Lords.

1 Cor 7:12-16 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? KJV

As we move into the season of the Feast of Trumpets, 9/29/2011, Day of Atonement, 10/8/2011, and the  Feast of Tabernacles,10/13/2011, we should be encouraging those around us to have a personal relationship with God, making Jesus Lord and receiving the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.  The Feast of Trumpets is a call to repentance, before the time of judgment. With the sound of 100 trumpets blown throughout the day, it is a reminder to repent and get ready for judgment. The Feast of Trumpets leads you into 10 Days of Awe which is a time of introspection, fearing the Lord and your personal walk with Him.  This takes us to the Day of Atonement, which is the day we are to atone, and repent with fasting and prayer. Tradition would say God inscribes your fate in the Book of Life. This is God’s plan for absolution, rather than confession to a priest and some repetitive prayers. Then we have Tabernacles, the commemoration of the wandering in the wilderness as well as a time for pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem.  Many people eat and sleep outside in their booths, or sukkos, to remember and show they are waiting for the temple to be rebuilt. 

The Season of Fall Feasts are important to us, not from a legalistic perspective but from a spiritual one.  It is the time we get to cleanse ourselves spiritually, asking forgiveness for our sins, and getting right with God.  It is our time to renew our commitment to God and plan to live better for Him.  Instead of being like the people of Sodom who became more and more hardened and perverted in their thinking, it is to our benefit to have a season of reconciliation to God.  It is also to our benefit to live and be united to God regardless of who else is, so that we keep in mind Lot’s wife. 

Today we celebrate The Feast of Trumpets as the new year and make it a time to celebrate the coming of Jesus our Messiah, however if the Lord does not return on Trumpets, consider it His mercy and use the time to be reconciled to Him.  This would be more correct then a big party and a happy feast. Although every day, living in a spirit of repentance is best, this season is the time to get us back on track in all things, settling   issues in our hearts.  Remember Lot’s wife.  
 

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Remember Lot's Wife

by
J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900)

There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than this. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us, "Remember Lot's wife."
Lot's wife was a professor of religion: her husband was a "righteous man" (II Peter 2:8). She left Sodom with him on the day when Sodom was destroyed; she looked back towards the city from behind her husband, against God's express command; she was struck dead at once, and turned into a pillar of salt. And the Lord Jesus Christ holds her up as a beacon to His church: He says, "Remember Lot's wife."
It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. No: He singles out one whose soul was lost for ever. He cries to us, "Remember Lot's wife."
It is a solemn warning, when we consider the subject Jesus is upon. He is speaking of His own second coming to judge the world: He is describing the awful state of unreadiness in which many will be found. The last days are on His mind, when He says, "Remember Lot's wife."
It is a solemn warning, when we think of the Person who gives it. The Lord Jesus is full of love, mercy, and compassion: He is One who will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax He could weep over unbelieving Jerusalem, and pray for the men that crucified Him; yet even He thinks it good to give this solemn warning and remind us of lost souls. Even He says, "Remember Lot's wife."
It is a solemn warning, when we think of the persons to whom it was first given. The Lord Jesus was speaking to His disciples: He was not addressing the Scribes and Pharisees who hated him, but Peter, James, and John, and many others who loved Him: yet even to them He thinks good to address a caution. Even to them He says, "Remember Lot's wife."
It is a solemn warning, when we consider the manner in which it was given. He does not merely say, "Beware of following-take heed of imitating-do not be like Lot's wife." He uses a different word: He says, "Remember"He speaks as if we were all in danger of forgetting the subject; He stirs up our lazy memories; He bids us keep the case before our minds. He cries, "Remember Lot's wife."
I will speak of the religious privileges which Lot's wife enjoyed.
In the days of Abraham and Lot, true saving religion was scarce upon earth; there were no Bibles, no ministers, no churches, no tracts, no missionaries. The knowledge of God was confined to a few favoured families; the greater part of the inhabitants of the world were living in darkness, ignorance, superstition, and sin. Not one in a hundred perhaps had such good example, such spiritual society, such clear knowledge, such plain warnings as Lot's wife. Compared with millions of her fellow-creatures in her time, Lot's wife was a favoured woman.
She had a godly man for her husband: she had Abraham, the father of the faithful for her uncle by marriage. The faith, the knowledge, and the prayers of these two righteous men could have been no secret to her. It is impossible that she could have dwelt in tents with them for any length of time, without knowing whose they were and whom they served. Religion with them was no formal business; it was the ruling principle of their lives and the mainspring of their actions. All this Lot's wife must have seen and known. This was no small privilege.
When Abraham first received the promises, it is probable Lot's wife was there. when he built his tent between Hai and Bethel, it is probable she was there...when the angels came to Sodom and warned her husband to flee, she saw them; when they took them by the hand and led them out of the city, she was one of those whom they helped to escape. Once more, I say, these were no small privileges.
Yet what good effect had all these privileges on the heart of Lot's wife? None at all. Notwithstanding all her opportunities and means of grace-not-withstanding all her special warnings and messages from heaven-she lived and died graceless, godless, impenitent, and unbelieving. The eyes of her understanding were never opened; her conscience was never really aroused and quickened; her will was never really brought into a state of obedience to God; her affections were never really set on things above. The form of religion which she had was kept up for fashion's sake and not from feeling: it was a cloak worn for the sake of pleasing her company, but not from any sense of its value. She did as others around her in Lot's house: she conformed to her husband's ways: she made no opposition to his religion: she allowed herself to be passively towed along in his wake: but all this time her heart was wrong in the sight of God. The world was in her heart, and her heart was in the world. In this state she lived, and in this state she died.
In all this there is much to be learned: I see a lesson here which is of the greatest importance in the present day. You live in times when there are many persons just like Lot's wife: Come and hear the lesson which her case is meant to teach.
Learn, then, that the mere possession of religious privileges will save no one's soul. You may have spiritual advantages of every description; you may live in the full sunshine of the richest opportunities and means of grace; you may enjoy the best of preaching and the choicest instruction; you may dwell in the midst of light, knowledge, holiness, and good company. All this may be, and yet you yourself may remain unconverted, and at last be lost for ever.
I dare say this doctrine sounds hard to some readers. I know that many fancy they want nothing but religious privileges in order to become decided Christians. They are not what they ought to be at present, they allow; but their position is so hard, they plead, and their difficulties are so many. Give them a godly husband, or a godly wife-give them godly companions, or a godly master-give them the preaching of the gospel-give them privileges, and then they would walk with God.
It is all a mistake. It is an entire delusion. It requires something more than privileges to save souls. Joab was David's captain; Gehazi was Elisha's servant; Demas was Paul's companion; Judas Iscariot was Christ's disciple; and Lot had a worldly, unbelieving wife. These all died in their sins. They went down to the pit in spite of knowledge, warnings, and opportunities; and they all teach us that it is not privileges alone that men need. They need the grace of the Holy Ghost.
Let us value our religious privileges, but let us not rest entirely upon them. Let us desire to have the benefit of them in all our movements in life, but let us not put them in the place of Christ. Let us use them thankfully, if God gives them to us, but let us take care they produce some fruit in our heart and life. If they do not do good, they often do positive harm; they sear the conscience, they increase responsibility, they aggravate condemnation. The same fire which melts the wax hardens the clay; the same sun which makes the living tree grow, dries up the dead tree, and prepares it for burning. Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. Once more I say, it is not privileges alone which make people Christians, but the grace of the Holy Ghost Without that no man will ever be saved.
I ask those who attend a sound ministry in the present day to mark well what I am saying. You go to Mr. A's, or Mr. B's church: you think him an excellent preacher; you delight in his sermons; you cannot hear anyone else with the same comfort; you have learned many things since you attended his ministry; you consider it a privilege to be one of his hearers! All this is very good. It is a privilege. I should be thankful if ministers like yours were multiplied a thousandfold. But, after all, what have you got in your heart? Have you yet received the Holy Ghost? if not, you are no better than Lot's wife.
I ask the children of religious parents to mark well what I am saying. It is the highest privilege to be the child of a godly father and mother, and to be brought up in the midst of many prayers. It is a blessed thing indeed to be taught the gospel from our earliest in-fancy, and to hear of sin, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, and holiness, and heaven, from the first moment we can remember anything. But, O, take heed that you do not remain barren and unfruitful in the sunshine of all these privileges: beware lest your hearts remain hard, impenitent, and worldly, not-withstanding the many advantages you enjoy. You cannot enter the kingdom of God on the credit of your parents' religion. You must eat the bread of life for yourself, and have the witness of the Spirit in your own heart. You must have repentance of your own, faith of your own, and sanctification of your own. If not' you are no better than Lot's wife.
I pray God that all professing Christians in these days may lay these things to heart. May we never forget that privileges alone cannot save us. Light and knowledge, and faithful preaching, and abundant means of grace, and the company of holy people are all great blessings and advantages. Happy are they that have them! But after all, there is one thing without which privileges are useless: that one thing is the grace of the Holy Ghost. Lot's wife had many privileges; but Lot's wife had not grace.
 
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

History Time Line, Old Earth Young Humanity, History Conspiricy


I was always fascinated with archeology and paleontology as a kid.  Growing up in New England I visited lots of colonial sites and was intrigued with how daily life was lived.  Having a great imagination I took the artifacts I would see and picture people using them and living life around them.  From dark and dingy two room cabins with outhouses to two and three story row houses with widows’ peaks and bed warmers.  I loved the stories of how the Indians lived and I loved playing outside in the woods, always imagining what life was like in years past.  Yet in school history was a disaster for me.  I couldn’t remember dates and it all seemed so mixed up to me.  In more recent years I started questing history, did anyone have a firm grasp on events?  How then did that coincide with the bible?  I used a chronological Christian based home school program for history with my children and that seemed to satisfy my curiosity for a while.  I was happy to believe that slaves built pyramids in Egypt using logs to roll giant blocks along.  I never actually thought about how they cut the blocks.  I supposed the hammer and chisel was good enough for my thinking.  But once I really looked at things, I noticed something wasn’t right.  In fact more was wrong then I could ever imagine. 

I found out that we cannot even duplicate what was done with the Giza pyramids today, with our modern machinery, let alone the way I was taught in school.  But then the problem became all the other ancient societies that had pyramids.  There are pyramids all over the world.  I was never taught that in school.  There are pyramids in Central America, South America, Ireland, Scotland, England, China, Japan, India and other parts of Asia.  The world was inhabited by lots of people making pyramids at one time, as they all date to around the same time period.  How can we reconcile that bit of knowledge with the bible?  The entire earth must have been largely inhabited by people who were quite intelligent, with advanced knowledge of mathematics and advanced machinery and tools in order to construct just the pyramids.  That is not even speculating how other ancient structures and buildings were made worldwide.    If these pyramids were built before Noah we then have to stretch out the time line between Noah and Adam to have enough people, with enough intelligence to have accomplished this.  If the construction of the pyramids happened after the time of Noah then we have to stretch out the time line from Noah to Abraham to account for these pyramids having been built before Abraham went to Egypt.  Again we have to account for the advanced knowledge of mathematics and advanced machinery, which then makes no sense that we have no records of how the people of that time built all the world’s pyramids.  It seems silly that people would live in tents made from camel hide when they had advanced machinery and knowledge like laser saws and diamond tipped drills and powered saw blades.  When we date the world pyramids we find that most all of them were built before 10,000 BC and some were built before that.  Some would contend that the dating is wrong, however if when I make a phone call, my signal has to go into space and come back down to earth, why would we not be able to accurately date a pyramid? Someone may want to keep Christians uninformed.

Now we have a time line problem.  Do we stretch out the bible to fit the physical evidence?  If the bible tracks Adam using the bible’s own chronology to 4,000 years BC then the bible must be wrong. Yet it is my contention that the bible is completely accurate dating Adam to 4,000ish BC.  Who is right? Creation scientists used to insist that the earth and humanity is 6,000 years old, science says the earth is much older, into the billions of years, yet the bible dates humanity about 6,000 years. Noting the old bible teaching on the gap theory, we can explain how the pyramids, obviously older than Adam, exist.  What it doesn’t explain is who what where when and why.  

I started putting dates down on paper and what I found was interesting, for example there have been several ice ages followed by several deluges in earth’s history.  I found there were cultures that dated their civilizations very far back.  I also found there were times of wars prior to Adam.  The schoolhouse version of man evolving from apes to cave dwellers to today’s man becomes impossible due to the cataclysms that took place on the earth.  This would be why no one can find a missing link.  There isn’t one.  God (Elohim) created man after fixing the earth from the earths’ being formless and void. Whatever the beings were that lived here prior to Adam, they were not like Adam, as fossil records attest to.  That is why science is still looking for the elusive missing piece to the evolution puzzle.  The problem is we didn’t evolve so the missing link will always be missing.  Did I mention that Darwin’s theory is only 200 years old, there can be evolution within a species but not from apples to oranges, or monkeys to man.  We jumped the Darwin idea to cross species evolution to push a false teaching.  But who would do that? We’ll get to that later. 

It is interesting to note that we have never seen anything change form without genetic engineering, or genetic manipulation.  There are so many ethical questions about bio engineering. Using a pig’s heart valve in humans has helped humans to live longer, therefore is it wrong? You might say yes until you are in need of a heart valve, at which time you then might say no.  Tricky isn’t it? We can now grow body parts using animals and human cells, is it wrong? Again you may say yes until you are in need of something yourself.  Here is our ethical dilemma, is it right to save a life using something engineered? On the one hand we do it all the time when we make drugs to help infirmities, yet shouldn’t we just go natural, and not take medications, or use engineered things to help us live?  Isn’t it interesting that Christians take more medications and pills then non Christians.  Why are we so sickly?   And who can make that decision for others? Maybe the Christian position should be that the Christians should stop taking medications, thereby going home to be with Jesus sooner while non Christians should take medications until they come to know Jesus.  Really I’m just messing around here but you see how far we can distort things. The simplicity is we were created in Elohim’s image, and I don’t think God is mad at people who get medical help.

If we then didn’t evolve then what is going on with the whole cave man thing?  Apparently there were beings on earth that had bone structure similar to humans.  We don’t know how advanced they were as all we have is their bones, that hardly tells us if they could talk or just grunt.  We assume they didn’t communicate but we really don’t know.  Neanderthal Man lived around 600,000-350,000 BC.  That’s the oldest type human looking bones we have. Homo Sapiens lived around 200,000-50,000 BC and Cro- Magnon Man lived around 40,000-35,000 BC.  We can see how long ago these human type beings lived as compared to Adam at 4,000 BC.  There is so much time before Adam came on the scene that the earth could have been (and was) destroyed several times over before we get to our creation.  Again Ancient human type bones are found all over the world, not only in one area.  Is it probable that other civilizations existed before Adam, yes.  What they were like we really don’t know until we get to around the 10,000 BC mark.  Then we have some records and evidences of that civilization. 

Creation science points to footprints of man alongside foot prints of dinosaurs in mud as evidence of dinosaurs and man living at the same time period.  The problem is the footprints could be from Cro-Magnon Man, not Adam’s offspring.  I can find evidence of a few large beasts in the bible, but the fossilized bones of dinosaurs date back much further than 6,000 years ago.  There may have been a few dragon type animals on the earth at the time of Adam, but unless Adam lived at 68 million years ago those foot prints were not from Adam’s offspring.  The bigger picture in this is if there were lots of large dinosaurs before the flood then we would read about them in the bible, as Adam and Eve after the fall would have had to hide from them.  Then their offspring would have feared them and we would have read about them being eaten by dinosaurs. We don’t read about dinosaurs in the bible except on a very small scale, which means with the amount of fossils we have already found to date, there would have been a big conflict between Adam and the dinosaurs. There simply would have been too many dinosaurs to have lived on earth in that short time frame between the creation of Adam to the time of the flood, which is less than 2,000 years. Is the bible correct?    If we only have 2,000 years of Adam’s offspring on earth before the flood then dinosaurs would have been overpowering the humans, but the bible never mentions that.  In fact it isn’t until Job talks about a leviathan that people claim evidence of dinosaurs alongside man.  The problem with that is that Job lived after the flood of Noah, so where were the dinosaurs in the bible before the flood?  Maybe leviathan is not a dinosaur but more like a crocodile which were plentiful in that region, especially Egypt. Behemoth may be a hippopotamus which is what behemoth is translated in the Aramaic, but creation scientists distort this by saying that the hippo’s tail doesn’t look like a cedar tree, however they must not have done their homework.  The word for move is the word to desire or to be pleased with or to take pleasure, so the animals’ tail delights like a cedar in the wind.  Its tail moves about happily, in other words. Pigs’ tails move happily as well; check out the hippos at your local zoo, they have cute little tails.  Its tail is not as long as a tree which is what the creation scientists use to “prove” this is a dinosaur.  It’s not hard, just read it in the Aramaic, it says hippopotamus.  Job wasn’t dumb; he understood what God was saying to him. You see Job was a counselor to Pharaoh, he knew what a hippo was as he spent time in Egypt. 
OT:930 behemowth (be-hay-mohth'); in form a plural or OT:929, but really a singular of Egyptian derivation; a water-ox, i.e. the hippopotamus or Nilehorse: KJV - Behemoth.(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

Now we have the staggering amount of evidence of civilizations that existed before Adam.  When we look at the civilizations that are under water alone, it makes one’s head spin.  Some might try to date these cities being flooded with Noah’s flood, however that would then again mean they had power tools and laser tools to machine the cities that are now under water.  And again we are talking about less than 2,000 years between Adam and the flood, and never once do we see machining in the bible at this time.  If we look at the 2,000 years since Christ we have come a long way technologically but we still can’t build the ancient buildings that we see in existence today.  We can’t lift the weight of the blocks at Puma Punku , some 131 metric tons (over 288,000 lbs), with any machine we have today.  Let alone move some of these blocks miles to their final destination.  At Baalbek, Lebanon there is a 2,000 ton block, who could have quarried that, and how could they move it.  Are you telling me the offspring of Adam, living in tents, wearing animal skins were building these buildings? By the time we get to Nimrod, we see they were manufacturing bricks, not quarrying them.  The Jews in captivity in Egypt manufactured bricks as well, yet these structures at Baalbek and Puma Punku were not manufactured stone, they were quarried and machined.  I don’t read that anywhere in Genesis.

We also have the inconvenience of Nazca.  Someone knew how to fly something above the earth and use something like a laser in order to create the Nazca Lines.  As I previously wrote about the Nazca Lines, they can only be seen from above.  Speculations about religious practices, people walking around the sides of mountains, ceremonially do not make sense.  The ground had to be heated to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit to crystallize the minerals in the soil, like silicone, to make the lines. The lines look white, so some speculate that someone just scraped away the topsoil.  Yet these lines were burned into the ground, which is why they have not blown away in the wind. Someone else speculated that they could have been done using hot air balloons; however when someone tried to prove that idea, the up drafts caused the balloons to repeatedly crash and could never have been used by primitive people.  Yet India has stories of vimanas and aerial wars.  India dates it’s culture starting back to 75,000 BC, that is a long time before 4,000 BC.  Can the stories of India’s vimanas be true? If we think we are the only intelligent civilization that ever existed, then no, but if there were other intelligent civilizations before us, then they are true indeed.  I’ve always joked that the Nazca Lines look like they were done by a Kid who took his Dad’s flying machine out for a spin and he decided to do a little graffiti, maybe they had fun in the distant past like we do today. 

Another oddity we have is the Sumerian tablets.  They tell quite descriptively of ancient civilizations that existed, came to earth, mined gold in Africa and South America, and then left.  Is it possible that this is part of earth’s history?  The details of how they did genetic engineering and how they knew so much about our universe astound me.  Even if you wish to argue that these are just made up stories, who could have been so accurate with their details at 10,000 BC?  In fact, these “stories” actually prove to us much about our own universe that we just started learning about in the 1960’s.  Really then, we are the dumb ones if someone wrote about things in our universe so long ago and we are just making these discoveries in our life time.  I, never having been afraid to read, have read some of Sitchin’s books.  As I’ve written about previously, the one error I see is Sitchin trying to merge the Sumerian texts to fit into the Bible, the time periods are actually off by 6,000to 9,000 years or so.  But that is a small number compared to our earth’s existence, and as a Jew, Sitchin believed the bible to be true.  He just wanted his life’s work to prove the bible, which in fact it does and more.  So the problem we have with the Sumerian texts is that they were written before the time of Adam, a time when there should have been primitive cavemen wandering around, (if we believe our public school education) not traveling through space. And if we believe the creation scientists, they would say that these tablets are all wrongly dated, except that the information contained therein is now being recognized and proven.  Who could have known about all the planets in the solar system 10,000 years ago. Who could have documented genetic engineering experiments that we are only now starting to be able to do? Are we to believe that someone made up a nice story and gee whiz it just so happens to be scientifically true? The Sumerian story is the one of the Anunnaki coming to earth.  But the Sumerian texts date their coming at 450,000 years BC to 11,000 BC.  Is it possible that the creation before ours, before the earth became formless and void, was intelligent and advanced, and we actually have some evidences of their civilization?

Something happened in the heavenlies.  We know that there was some sort of mutiny, as Lucifer fell, and some of the angels fell with him.  We also know that some angels later fell before the flood of Noah.  We also know that some may have fallen after that as the Nephilim were in the land before and after the flood.  As I’ve written before we are not the center of this story, we are only a piece of the story, an offshoot.  Jesus came to rescue us but we were not the reason for the battle, the battle of the heavenlies happened before the creation of Adam.  Was Lucifer an angelic ruler over the previous civilizations? Did he ultimately destroy the beings on the earth as well as causing the earth to become formless and void?  Jeremiah attests to the fact that the cities became desolate and no men were found in them.  Elohim gave Adam a lease on this planet for 6,000 years. And from the time of the fall of Adam it was prophesied that a savior would come.  We also explored this in the meaning of the names of Genesis 5 where we have the plan of salvation.  The devil will be bound for 1,000 years, but then he will be loosed again to go out and deceive the nations.  Does that disturb anyone? It disturbs me, as if the devil will be let out to deceive after the millennial reign of Christ, just what then is he doing now? Deceiving us.  But there again, we are not the center of the story, something happened in heaven long before you and I and Adam came along.  And whatever the conflict, the fight, the mutiny was all about, we are still wrestling in it today.  Lucifer wanted to exalt himself over Elohim, but what was the reward for the angels who defected? I said we would get back to why we are being deliberately lied to.  I have to ask the simple question.  Why wasn’t Lucifer defeated, and thrown into a lake of fire already? Why did we need to have another civilization started, and then a savior to rescue it, who then could defeat satan and finally bind him for 1,000 years?  Was there no provision for munity in heaven until Jesus made a way? Was there no way to punish satan until Jesus could live a perfect life on earth and take away the sins of the unsuspecting human race? More questions than answers.  Is this why we are being lied to? So that we are confused as to who we are, where we fit in with others before us, thereby blurring the reality of the need of a Savior who overcame the world? 

Now the strategy; blow smoke so that no one can put the pieces together.  Christians are a threat unless they look like fools to the world, so keep the Christians fighting within and fighting without.  If we Christians fold our arms in defiance to science and history, we cannot win the scientists or historians to Christ.  Then we sound ignorant by saying carbon dating is wrong when we have high levels of technology all around us, we look as if we cannot possibly be correct about anything.  We go to school and everyone learns the same thing, yet there is no proof that what we were taught is true, that humanity evolved from apes.  If the entire population believes in that lie, then the entire population will not look for God, as each person is their own god.  Confusing the creation is a perfect way to keep humanity from noticing that there was a heavenly war and that it still continues.

Let’s add to the confusion by debating the Nephilim issue.  They did not all die in the flood, they lived after the flood as well.  Are they on earth today? Probably.  Are they trying to rule the world as in a one world government? Most likely.  Are there people playing around with bio engineering? Definitely.  What do we do? Nothing.  The old time Christians had a great saying back in the day.  But God.  I’m convinced we are saved from the wrath to come, that the Holy Spirit who resides in me is greater in might and power, and that the Holy Spirit is the one holding back the revealing of the Anti Christ.  So then, if there is a group of genetic mutants, trying to take over the world, ok. They can’t come to power until I’m gone.  

The last confusing issue is that of aliens.  I’ve never seen one, I don’t know anyone who has either so I can’t speak from experience.  I also don’t believe everyone who claims to have seen an alien is lying. All I can say is if God created man a little lower then Elohim, which is created higher than the angels, then I am also created above anything else out there.  Most people don’t realize this small nugget is really a huge treasure.  We don’t know how to live it. I have written about this before. Angels minister to us, so if there is another being flying around the atmosphere, I have authority over it. Are aliens fallen angels, I don’t know but it seems as they wouldn’t need space ships to get around.  Are aliens’ former inhabitants of earth, such as the Anunnaki? Maybe, but why is it so hard to pin them down? Are they the mutant Nephilim? Maybe, but why then are the New World Order Nephilim mutants covering it all up?  The spirits of the Nephilim are bound except for 10% that were allowed under satan’s authority.  We don’t know if the Anunnaki had any indwelling Holy Spirit as we Christians do today.  I would say that it is doubtful and again I have no definitive answers.

We also should not be surprised that there are tares sown among the wheat.  Don’t assume that just because someone calls themselves a Christian and sometimes acts like a Christian that they are in fact a Christian.  Many deceivers have gone out into the world, wolves in sheep’s’ clothing.  If they looked like wolves and smelled like wolves we wouldn’t be fooled, but if they look like sheep and smell like sheep we may be easily fooled.  We can’t rely on what we see when we look at people, but we should only rely on the directing of the Holy Spirit.  Religion becomes a great tool to pacify large groups of people thereby keeping the masses ignorant. The thing we can do is hold tight to Jesus and follow Him not men.   

Something we do know is that those who own the world, via money and power are not interested in anyone else clawing their way to the top.  Oppressing the people is the way to ensure position and status.  In the early 80’s I read the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy, which taught me about the One World Government.  It is a good read and free on line. We have had a one world government for a very long time, it isn’t anything new, we just haven’t heard about it.  It is vitally important to keep us entertained so we do not notice the things that go on. Just as names like the Federal Reserve tend to fool people, we are being fooled into thinking that there aren’t a few rich folk who have some answers.  The Georgia Guide Stones tell us their plans for cutting down the population and future life on earth. They must be expecting something to change our planet such as war, or a meteor or a geographic and magnetic pole shift.  They seem to recognize something cataclysmic will change the way we live very soon.  One day we will know the truth.  Meantime it seems like a good idea to make hell less populated.


End Notes:

Dinosaur Shocker

50 Top Megaliths


None Dare Call It Conspiracy



3 BC Jesus is Born
701 BC Mars adjusts orbit
1956 BC God’s Covenant w/Abraham of Isaac Abraham 99 yrs old
2,347 BC Noah’s Flood
2,600 BC – 1,520 AD Maya Civilization
4,000 BC Adam Created
6,500 BC Markawasi Civilization
9,000 BC India settlements
10,950 Deluge
11,000 BC Ice Age
15,000-12,000 BC Puma Punku Civilization
40,000-35,000 BC Cro- Magnon Man
75,000 BC India
200,000-50,000 BC Homo Sapiens
450,000-11,000 BC Anunnaki
600,000-350,000 BC Neanderthal Man