PLAGUES--THE ARK
Radiocarbon dating of organic remains at Jericho date the destruction to 1320 B.C., forty years prior to this date the Israelite s were banished to Sinai and the Exodus began in 1360 B.C. In the last year of Amonhotep III reign.
This is the time of the ten plagues
that God used to gain the freedom of his people. The plagues of fire
from the sky, water turning to blood, darkness in daytime, these
plagues were the medium that permitted the Exodus to happen.
Interesting their was geologically a
major catastrophe that also occurred in 1360B.C. According to the
book of Exodus God spoke to Moses and told him to lead the enslaved
Israelite's to freedom. Moses confronted the Pharaoh and demanded
that he let his people go. When the Pharaoh (Moses Father) refused,
God was said to have punished Egypt with a series of plagues.
Fiery hailstorms, cattle deaths, a
plague of boils, infestations of flies, frogs locust and lice. It
sounds like the end of the world! But these plagues weren't the only
ones we have experienced in history. We just call them by different
names.
In 1980 the volcano Mount St. Helen
Erupted, after the eruption 500 miles away the sky was obscured for
hours, from volcanic ash.
In 2010 the EYJAFJALLAJOKULL, hope I
spelled that right, volcano in Iceland, which was a minor eruption by
volcanic standards, but it laid ash over a great portion of northern
and western Europe. 100's of thousands of air travelers were
stranded, initially for six days, there were additional eruption over
the next several months. Their was so much ash on the ground that
whenever the wind kicked up ash mist was created that obscured
visability.
Ice on the glacier was melting for six
months from the heat created and a new fissure opened up on the
glacier which also permitted ash and vapors to escape. Twenty
countries had to close their air spaces, the volcanic ash rose to
30,000 feet, initially the sun was obscured for several weeks in
certain areas it also affected the weather world wide the following
winter was cooler by two degrees world wide because the ash in the
atmosphere reflected the rays of the sun.
In 1883 an eruption on the Krakatau
Island near Sumatra created such a ash cloud that the daylight was
obscured thousands of miles away for a week.
In Exodus (9:23-26) it states that
Moses stretched his wand towards the heavens: the lord sent thunder
and hail, fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail
upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail and fire with fire mixed in
with the hail, and this had never been witnessed before in Egypt. And
the hail smote all in the land of Egypt both man and beast. It ruined
the fields and broke the trees.
This could also have been a description
of what happened on the Sumatra in 1883 when volcanic pebble rained
down like hail, fiery pumice setting fire upon the ground setting
fire to trees and houses; lightening flashing from the volcanic
clouds with the turbulent winds.
At St. Helen’s their was volcanic
debris hundreds of miles from the volcano, flattening crops. As far
away as the state of Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, volcanic
debris was blown. “ and it shall become a small dust in the land of
Egypt, and shall become a boil breaking forth with blains upon man
and beast.” Exodus (9:9) Hundreds of people were taken to
hospitals after Mount St. Helen from acidic exposure causing rashes,
skin sores, respiratory distress, pneumonia hundreds of head of
cattle were put down from not being able to escape the acidic air
pollution.
Exodus (9:6) Describes all of the live
stock perishing in the entire country of Egypt. After St. Helen’s
fish also perished and were found floating on hundreds of miles of
waterways. The pungent odor from volcanic debris and pumice
permeated everything and water supplies had to be shut down until the
reservoirs could be filtered and impurities removed.
Exodus (7:21) and the fish that was in
the river died: and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not
drink of the river, and their was blood throughout all the lands of
Egypt.
When volcanoes erupt not only do they
cover the surrounding area with gray ash, but they also release
other toxins, such as iron oxide. This would certainly explain the
blood red Nile River from Exodus. When Krakatau blew, thousands of
tons of iron oxide were released, this would be the same iron oxide
found on the surface of Mars giving the red color, for miles and
miles around Krakatau the fish died from the red toxins in the water.
Exodus (7:20) “ and all the waters
that were in the river turned to blood.” The other plagues don't
initially appear to be related to the volcano but lets take a closer
look at them. Frogs, lice, locust and flies! What could possibly be
the connection to the events of a volcanic eruption.
After an volcanic event the whole
ecosystem is affected for a very long time, most ecosystems are
devastated by a volcanic eruption , but some thrive on it. When the
countryside is covered in gray ash, invertebrates, insects, larval,
eggs, chrysalis can remain safe under with the ash with the snakes
and rodents!
Frogs can spawn under submerged brush
bramble and ledges. Insects have a short life span and reproduce at
an alarming rate. After an event such as an volcano eruption the
insects get a head start on the rest of mankind, larger predators,
and competition!
When Mount Pelee erupted on the
Caribbean island of Martinique, in 1902, volcanic debris covered the
nearby port of Saint Pierre, killing over 30,000 people. The
survivors had an epidemic of fierce flying ants which descended upon
the sugar plants attacking the workers.
As the workers ran for their lives the
flying ants seared their flesh with acid stings. This had happened
before when in 1851 mount Pelee erupted previously, this time they
devoured whole sugar plantations, attacked and killed babies, and
drove away workers.
Exodus describes three types of insects
first the lice: “Aaron raised out his hand with his rod, and smote
the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all
the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Exodus (8:17) “Then came the flies, as God instructed Moses to
tell the Pharaoh:”
Behold for I will send swarms of flies
upon thee, and upon thy servant, and upon thy people, and into thy
houses: and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of
flies, and also the ground where on they are...and the Lord did so
and their came grievous swarms of flies...and the land became
corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. Exodus (8:21-24)
And then the locusts descended: the
locusts went up all over the land of Egypt and rested in all the
coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no
such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they
covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened;
and they did eat every herb on the land and every fruit on the trees
which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in
the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of
Egypt. Exodus(10:14-15)
Then came the frogs: Well prepared for
such events, like insects they produce thousands of eggs many making
it to be tadpoles, however so many tadpoles are completely
defenseless, that they become the lower end of the food chain and a
large quantity of tadpoles are needed to sustain the adult
population.
When the frog spawn are hatched the
dinner bell goes off for the local fish population who are having an
all you can eat buffet. Only a few tadpoles make it to adult hood,
in order for the species to survive its a numbers game.
After the Mount St. Helen’s eruption
the predatory fish population was decimated, the tiny eggs from the
frog spawn survived the catastrophe, by the time they hatched, all
the hazardous fallout had floated down river.
The fish population however hadn't
returned yet, their was a dramatic increase in the population of
frogs in the state of Washington, some describe it as a frog plague.
They littered the countryside by the thousands, so many had been
squished on the roads as to make driving conditions hazardous.
They clogged waterways, covered gardens
and infested houses. In Exodus (8:2-8) this is exactly what happened
to the Egyptians: “ God said, behold I will smite all thy borders
with frogs. And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which
shall come up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and
upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and into thine kneading troughs...And
Arron stretched out his hand, over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs
came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
Various scholars over the years have
attributed the plagues to various natural causes, but to have them
all happen in the same time frame is just to much of a coincidence. A
volcanic eruption would account for all the plagues of Exodus!
The only point of contention is the
time line of the various plagues. If from a volcanic eruption the
first plague that would occur, day time being as dark as night with
fiery hail, then the boils and skin sores would follow next the river
turning to blood, then dead cattle and fish. After a period of time
the flogs and insects would appear.
The question would be was there a
volcanic eruption around 1360 B.C. That would affect Egypt, when the
Exodus was thought to have occurred? At the Greek Island of Thera in
the 15th century B.C. was an important trading center in
the Mediterranean. Today Thera is a crescent shaped island called
Santorini. This crescent shaped island forms a bay 6 miles wide, the
cliffs surrounding it are covered with molten volcanic debris. The
bay was formed by an ancient volcanic eruption, causing a crater.
This crater is so deep that ships can't
anchor there. In the 1930's Greek archeologist Marinatos proposed
that an ancient volcanic eruption all but destroyed the island. In
1956 two geologist tried to determine exactly how large the explosion
was.
From the survey ship the Vema which
they were using to survey the crater they were able to determine that
the crater was 30 square miles in area. From the size of the crater
they were able to calculate the magnitude of this catastrophe.
Some volcano’s have molten rock
cascading down the mountain side, others have searing mud slides, the
most devastating are the ones where the pressure builds to the point
where the magma literally causes the volcano to blow up.
Three and a half thousand years ago
that’s what happened at Thera. This is also the type of eruption
that happened at Mount St. Helen’s in 1980, it blasted away the
mountain side like it was hit with a 50 megaton bomb. On May 18th
1980 this is what happened killing every living organic thing within
150 square miles.
Thousand of acres of Forrest were
flattened everything was covered with molten rock it looked like a
lunar landing on the moon. Within a few hours a cloud of ash some
five miles wide, containing billions of tons of volcanic debris had
rolled five miles to the east crossing the states of
Washington,Idaho, Montana—the massive volcanic cloud covered the
sky and day was turned into night!
Throughout the whole area ash fell like
rain, clogging motor engines, halting trains, and blocking roads.
Seven million hectares of lush farmland looked like a gray desert,
with millions of dollars of crops destroyed.
Hundreds of people , some as far as
North Dakota, over 600 miles from the volcano were taken to the
hospital with irritated eyes and skin rashes caused from exposure to
corrosive fallout. For weeks and in some cases months afterward,
fish in hundreds of miles of waterways were found floating on the
rivers killed from caustic pollutants.
Mount Saint Helen’s was one of the
most destructive volcano’s of our lifetime, but compared to Thera
it was a cake walk. When in 1883 the Krakatau eruption occurred it
was heard three thousand miles away in Melbourne Australia, this was
twenty times that of Mount Saint Helen’s.
With the Krakatau eruption it had a ash
cloud that rose fifty miles high and thousands square miles were
covered with gray ash. 36,000 people were killed. It is estimated
that the earth from a six mile crater was blown into the atmosphere,
Thera was six times the size of this incident, it is estimated that
it was heard half away around the world. The volcanic debris would
have been blown a hundred miles high with a debris field of over a
million square miles.
When the atomic bomb was used on
Nagasaki Japan, it destroyed over half the city with a 20 kiloton
explosion. Mount Saint Helen explosion was equivalent to a fifty
kiloton explosion; Krakatau was created with an incredible 1,000,000.
kiloton explosion.
Thera was an incredible 6,000,000.
kilotons. It would take 6,000 modern nuclear warheads, each with the
capacity to wipe out a modern city to equal the magnitude of the
Thera explosion.
It is estimated that judging by the
size of the Thera crater that seventy cubic miles of debris was
ejected skyward, it would have formed a massive fallout cloud that
would have blown toward Egypt. The Vema survey showed that pumice
and volcanic debris from the thera eruption covered the seabed only
in the southeast area of the volcano, showing that the prevailing
winds carried the fallout cloud directly towards Egypt. Egypt is
only five hundred miles away, after the effect of Saint Helen’s and
Krakatau had with much smaller fallout clouds there can be
absolutely no dought that Egypt felt the full scorn of the Thera
fallout cloud!
The Israelite s may very well have
interpreted this fallout cloud as divine intervention and escaped
under the cloak of the fallout cloud, pretty much as described in the
Bible. In the 1970's Danish scientists taking core samples of ice
fields in Greenland They were looking for atmospheric conditions year
by year going back 100,000 years.
They discovered elevated acidic
conditions in the atmosphere when there was known volcanic activity
such as Pompeii in 79 A.D.
Their was a plus or minus give of fifty
years of the time effect of the ice cores. In 1390 B.C. There was a
massive eruption somewhere in the world, this fit the profile of the
Thera eruption in the time of the Exodus.
On the island of Crete in 1930 there
was another significant piece of the puzzle discovered. In the 14th
century Crete was a prominent ship building and center of the Minoan
civilization. They left their mark on history by being dominant in
trade and not in conquest. By doing so they were the wealthiest
nation in the Mediterranean.
Crete being only seventy miles south of
Thera was right in line of the volcanic eruption and would have a
more severe devastation then that of Egypt. Archeological evidence
shows that Thera devastated the civilization and was probably the
cause of its demise. The complete infrastructure of Crete was
demolished, their was evidence of a massive flood and tidal wave.
Excavations at the port town of
Amniso, when a villa was discovered within the harbor area, showing
the walls to be pushed outward in an odd way. Large upright stones
seemed to have been forced out of position by some huge external
force suggesting that they had been been the victim of a tremendous
back wash from an enormous tidal wave.
It seems as though the harbor town was
devastated by a wall of water that could have easily been the result
of the Thera eruption. The Minoan civilization was involved in trade
with Egypt there were artifacts found that were dated to the time of
Amenhotep III who ruled between 1385 to 1360 B.C.
There were also indications that in
1360 B.C. Amonhotep III erected hundreds of statues to the goddess
Sekhmet, the daughter of Ra. The statues were to replace Mut as the
primary goddess. This changing of the principal goddess to Sekhmet
was indicative of something wrong despite the stability and wealth of
Egypt.
Sekhmet was the goddess of devastation!
In Egyptian mythology she was a lioness, a women's body with the head
of a lion. She was the daughter of the sun god Ra, and was said to
have once almost annihilated mankind.
According to mythology she obscured the
sun and rained down fire from heaven, and humanity was only saved
through the personal intervention of Ra. Sekhmet vengeance is similar
to the catastrophe created by the Thera eruption. Believing her
responsible for the plagues, Amonhep III may well have erected the
statues to appease the goddess.
The
Rex Deus are an ancient familial bloodline descended from the ancient
Israelites. For over two thousand years, this King of God bloodline
has secretly been kept intact through strict traditions of marriage
and selective breeding. The Rex Deus bloodline contains the genetic
blueprints of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, as well as King David. The
Rex Deus hold the honor of being the missing link conecting
christenanity and Judism.
When
Jesus walked the earth, there were 24 High Priests of the Temple of
Jerusalem. During this time, priests came out of the Levite tribe,
preserving the hereditary hold on the priesthood. Few besides a
theologian are aware that within the Tribe of Levi, there existed a
smaller, highly exclusive, group called the Cohen.
This
is the select group where the High Priests were chosen of Solomons
Temple. The Levite priests were allowed to marry outside of the
bloodline, but the Cohen were prohibited marriage to any other than
Cohen's. This was a cruicial tradition in preserving a priesthood
that had originated with Moses.
The
purpose of this true bloodline is the traditionalism and preservation
of the "true teachings of Jesus", and to actualize the "the
Kingdom of Heaven upon Earth". Rex Deus knew that the mission
of Jesus was a mission of revelation rather then salvation.
Rather
than being deemed heretic against the policies of the Church, the
clans of Rex Deus chose to blend into the beliefs of those in thier
surroundings. This began the secret oral history and teachings that
are now passed down to selected progeny.
Levite
Y-chromosome studies
A
2003 study of the Y-chromosome by Behar et al. points to multiple
origins for Ashkenazi Levites, a priestly class who comprise
approximately 4% of Ashkenazi Jews. It found that Haplogroup R1a1a
(R-M17), uncommon in the Middle East or among Sephardi Jews,
originating in Central Asia and dominant in Eastern Europe, is
present in over 50% of Ashkenazi Levites, while the rest of Ashkenazi
Levites' paternal lineage is of Middle Eastern origin.
Behar
suggests a founding event, probably involving one or very few
European men, occurring at a time close to the initial formation and
settlement of the Ashkenazi community as a possible explanation.
Notable
descendants: Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Samuel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Malchi,
John the Baptist, Mark the Evangelist, Mathew the Evangelist,
Barnabas. I would like to mention that John the Baptist was a cousin
of Jesus, more than likely in the future when his DNA is confirmed,
we will also find him in this group of people.
When
Moses led the Israelite s out of Egypt it isn't clear weather it was
during the plagues or shortly afterwords. He was said to have made
three camps on the way to Mount Sinai, which he was familiar with, he
was tending his father in laws heard of sheep when God appeared in a
burning bush and Moses asked which God are you and god replied I am
he who is he.
The
Levites were the High Priests and priests which God held above all
others because they were loyal to him during their captivity and
didn't turn to false gods. Aaron was said to be the first High
Priest of the Levite priests consecrated at Mount Sinai, when he died
the pillar cloud of smoke that was always ahead of the camp
disappeared. Wherever God is in the Bible there is a cloud of smoke
lightening, thunder and fire.
If
we were not talking of religions and episodes of the Bible, in this
day and age, the first thing you would think of is a rocket/
spaceship launching. As of today we haven’t mastered landing of
our rockets, when returning to earth, but on the moon, I am sure the
description of our rockets coming and going would pretty much match
Biblical description of the arrival of God.
Being
an ancient astronaut theorists, knowing what I know abought events of
the Exodus, I am of the school that the Levites were extraterrestrial
hybrids, with DNA to verify my assumption. They had special
responsibilities to God and were unaffected by the wrath of God,
unlike the average Israelite as we shall see as we examine the
tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant.
The
only books we have of evidence of the Hebrew Religion in 1300 B.C.
Are the Old Testament which was written hundreds of years later.
What we know of Atenism is based upon recent archeological finds.
These
prove beyond any doubt that their was a religion in many ways
identical to the Hebrew religion which came into existence for a
short period of time during the time of Moses and the Exodus. These
were the only two monolithic religions known to the world for the
next thousand years until the christen religion was born.
It
would seem therefore that these two religions were connected if not
one in the same at some point. There is also evidence that a sacred
vessel, very similar to the Ark of the covenant also existed. In
Egypt a gods presence was said to exist inside and object such as a
statue or figurine.
During
the reign of Amonhotep III, a statue of the god Amun, stood in a dark
inner sanctum at the temple of karnak. Just like the Holy of Holies
where the Ark of the Covenant later stood in Solomons Temple.
Only
on special occasions would the statue be moved and even then only in
a sacred container. This container was made of gilded wood and
carried with poles inserted into rings on either side of the
container.
The
name of this container and the Ark is also interestingly similar. At
the Temple of Medinet Habu in Thebes, there is a releif that depicts
the god statue being carried in this container with a description
that reads “The Divine Amun is carried on the sacred Bark.”
The
words ark and bark have a common origin in the Egyptian word ak,
meaning sacred container or vessel. This word was also used in Latin
called barca, a royal boat. Eventually during the Roman era any small
boat was called a bark. In modern English its called an barge.
The
original word ak not only could be applieed to inanimate objects; but
also to a person through which a god spoke. In the title of the
Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten which meant “ the vessel of the Aten”.
Both the Egyptian bark and the Hebrew Ark were vessels for
containing their respective Gods, or something that channeled their
deities power.
It
would make sense that the Hebrew religion would be influenced by the
Egyptian religions because of their confinement of 450 years before
the Exodus. For a people forced into a nomadic existence wandering
the Sinai wilderness for many years, it makes perfect sense for them
to have adapted their version of the Egyptian Sacred vessel.
It
enabled them to transport their most sacred possessions, in
particular an mysterious object that allowed god to appear, the Mercy
seat! Like the Egyptian statue of the god Amun which allowed god to
convey his messages.
The
Egyptian translation of mercy Seat, means wisdom and place of
judgment, such as the “Kings seat” of power. In 1 Chronicles
(28:11), the throne room of King Solomon is also referred to as the
mercy seat. Perhaps it wasn't so much a chair as a place, from were
wisdom was dispensed, judgments made and power wielded.
In
Exodus (37:6) is the only description of the mercy seat: “and he
made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the
length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof” .
These dimensions interestingly are also the same as the Ark. The
mercy seat is thought to be the lid of the ark.
What
ever the mercy seat appeared to be, it was definitely the oracle of
God! Just as the god Amun was the oracle of the Egyptian God, the
portable golden Ark was the oracle of the Hebrew God. Could one have
perhaps influenced the other?
We
can now ascertain that there is historical evidence of a figure
matching Moses profile, there was archeological evidence for the
existence of the Hebrew Religion and the Ark fitted a historic image.
Lets take a closer look at this mysterious lost to history vessel.
Was
the Ark of the Covenant a radio for talking to God, perhaps, how
about a supernatural weapon? There are close to two hundred
references to the Ark in the Old Testament, between Exodus and the
building of the Temple.
At
the council of Nicea they tried to expunge all references to
Extraterrestrial influence, they did a pretty good job of it, but
they forgot a few areas. They disposed of the Book of Enoch but it
showed up 1500 years later, they tried to dispose of twenty-five
gospels known today as the gnostic scripts, and if they would have
known about the Dead Sea Scrolls, they to would have been expunged
from history.
They
made a major mistake by allowing the Book of Ezekiel into the Bible,
a description of forty pages of measurements of a space ship and the
measurements for the construction of a facility to house it.
The
thoughts of the Ark was that it was in the possession of the Essenes,
the Jewish sect that also John the Baptist and Jesus were also
associated with. It is felt at some point around 597 B.C. Before the
Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and plundered the Temple that the Ark
was removed and placed with this very secretive sect.
Seventy
years later when the Persians conquered the Babylons, the Holy relics
taken from the Temple were returned, but the Ark wasn't among them.
The Essences were slaughtered by the Romans in 68 A.D. The only
knowledge of this seclusive sect comes from Josephus and more
significantly from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The
Israelite's needed twelve precious “sacred” stones for the Ark.
God told Moses how to build the Ark and gave him instructions for its
use: It could only be carried by members of the Levite priesthood,
the only person other than Moses who could actually use the Ark was
the high priest Aaron. Upon his death only his successor could use
it. The power of the Ark could only be summoned if the high priest
wore a special sacred breast plate. This was referred to as the
breastplate of Judgment.
The
Breastplate of Judgment is described in detail in Exodus (28:15-30).
it has a square design and made from twine golden linen, inlaid with
twelve precious stones set in four rows.
The
first row shall be sardius, a topaz, a carbuncle...the second row a
emerald, a sapphire, a diamond...the third row shall be a ligure, an
agate and a amethyst...The forth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper.
The
breastplate is sometimes referred to as the “jewels of gold”
because they were originally set in gold. It was believed these
stones had divine powers and were originally set in gold by God
himself At mount Sinai.
In
the Book of Ezekiel they are referred to as stones of fire, and once
possessed by Lucifer. But having been taken away by God. (EZ 28:13)
They were later given to Moses because it is fatal to look inside the
Ark without the stones. In 1 Samuel (6:19) a description of a whole
community of interested people being smitten for doing so:
“And
he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked inside the
ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and three
score and ten men: and the men lamented, because the Lord had smitten
many of the people with a great slaughter.”
The
Ark was kept secluded for three and a half centuries after the time
of Moses, it was finally opened under the direction of King Solomon
in the Temple at Jerusalem. The only items in it were the two stone
tablets containing the ten commandments: once it was opened divine
forces were released!
“ and
it came to pass, when the priests were to come out of the holy place
that the cloud filled the house of the Lord (the Temple of Solomon)
so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:
for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.” (1 kgs
8:10) By this time the breastplate itself seems to have perished and
the stones were kept in a separate box which was held by the high
priest when the Ark was used.
In
1 Samuel “ the Levites took down the Ark of the Lord, and the
coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were kept.” The
Bible does not say what happened to these sacred stones, however it
is believed they remained with the Ark until its mysterious
disappearance.
“The
ancient Israelite s believed the Ark could summon angels”. Unlike
the christen concept of angles Hebrews believed they were monstrous
creatures that delivered the wrath of God. It was an Angel that
killed the Egyptian first born, when the Pharaoh wouldn't release the
captive Israelite's, and another that released the torrents of Noah's
flood.
It
is said that when God sent an Angel to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah,
the devastation was so dreadful that all that was left was a hole in
the ground where nothing would grow or live. All that was left was a
pungent chemical odor.
It
is said that Lucifer was suppose to have possessed the ”stones of
fire” before he displeased God, but wasn't he a angel before he was
the Devil? The story of Lucifer fall from grace is not told in the
Old Testament but is told in the Tanak. The Essences relied heavily
on the Tanak and believed they were the followers of the archangles
Michael and Gabriel, they referred to themselves as the “sons of
light.” Light being an allusion to angles.
When
Lucifer was banished from heaven he was replaced by Michael and
Gabriel who became the “kings of heaven”. They were the two
angels represented on the Ark. The word cherubim in Greek means
messenger. Angels were messengers from God.
Angels
do Gods nasty work: the Hebrews called angels lights because they
believed that shooting stars were angels coming to earth to do Gods
bidding. The constellation of the Big Dipper, and the stars Betenash
and Mizar represent the Archangels Michael and Gabriel.
The
Bible portrays Lucifer as the original possessor of the stones of
fire, Michael and Gabriel were Lucifer's replacement, the Essennes
were alluding to possessing the stones themselves. If the Essennes
possessed the stones then they must have possessed the Ark because
the Ark and the stones were inseparable.
It
is thought that Lucifer was the chief angle who commanded other
angles from mount Sinai, and the stones were sewn into Lucifer
garments to protect him from other angels. It is thought that the
stones of fire could control the divine fire that came from the Ark
of the Covenant.
After
Moses Exodus from Egypt God led Moses to mount Sinai where he gave
him the stones of fire to protect him from the power of the Ark and
instructed Moses on how to build the Ark.
When
the Essenes were slaughtered by the Romans in 68A.D. They had been
ready for such an event, they had already hid the Dead Sea Scrolls in
a cave in a ravine only assessable by rappelling down from above, it
was hidden from sight and secure. Some believe the Ark and its stones
are also someplace close by, but the Judean wilderness was extensive
and vastly catacombed with ravines and caves many undiscovered to
this day.
In
the book of the prophet Jeremiah, which is thought to be the original
words of the prophet written down by the scribe Baruch ( 3:16) reads:
“ the ark of the Covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to
mind: neither shall they remember it: neither shall they visit it.”
Scholars interpret this verse as a warning to Hebrews that they could
loose the Ark if they don't change their ways. Or perhaps it had
already been taken away! Jeremiah was the most prominent prophet
during the Babylonian invasion, if any one had the authority to
remove the Ark it would have been Jeremiah.
The
“ Remaining words of Jeremiah” “ and Jeremiah said, behold,
Lord, now we know that you are delivering the city into the hands of
it's enemies, and they will take the people away to Babylon. What do
you want me to do with the holy vessels of the temple service? And
the Lord said to him, take them and consign them to the earth,
saying: hear, earth, the force of your creator who formed you in the
abundance of waters, who sealed you with seven seals for seven
epochs, after this you will receive your ornaments. Guard the
vessels of the temple service until the gathering of the beloved.”
It
is believed that the sacred vessels are alluring to the Ark of the
Covenant, the golden incense alter, and the sacred tabernacle, and
the golden menorah. During the invasion by Babylon many Jews died
and thousands were enslaved and removed to Babylon.
Jeremiah
survived and avoided being enslaved by cooperating with the
Babylonians and convincing the Jews to avoid bloodshed by
surrendering. He eventually was relocated to Egypt where he died. It
is felt he didn't recover the sacred vessels because the Babylonians
were still in control of Jerusalem for the rest of Jeremiah's life.
It is felt by the Time the Israelite's were in control of Jerusalem
and had rebuilt the Temple that their weren't any survivors from the
Babylonian invasion that knew where it was hidden.
In
Jerome s Bible which was written in 400A.D., there are many books not
included in the King James version of the Bible. One of these was the
second book of the Maccabees, there is a passage of Jeremiah hiding
the sacred vessels and it stated that the golden incense alter and
the sacred tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant were amongst them.
“He came forth to the mountain where Moses went up and saw God's
inheritance. And when Jeremiah came thither he found a hollow cave
and he carried in thither the tabernacle, the ark and the alter of
incenses, and so stopped the door.”
This
ancient text the Bible of Jerome has gone a along way in solving a
lot of mysteries of history. It revealed who hid the Ark of the
Covenant and most importantly where he hid it.
The
inheritance of God is Bible speak for the “Promised Land “, which
could be seen from the mountain that Moses climbed where he died,
most recent research believes that to be mount Sinai and not mount
Nebo.
The
exact mountain that was thought to be mount Sinai however it has been
lost to history. There were several accounts of the location of Moses
final mountain he ascended, however the Leviticus account from the
maccabee's seems the most logical.
mount
Sinai was the most sacred site for the ancient Israelite's before the
Temple of Solomon was built. It was here that God first spoke to
Moses from the burning bush. It was mount Sinai that Moses led the
Israelit's to after the escape from Egypt. It was here that God gave
the Israelite's the religious laws, made the ten commandments and
ordered the making of the Ark. Most importantly mount Sinai was
thought to have been inhabited by God.
In
the Old Testament mount Sinai is referred to as the Mountain of God,
because God was thought to have resided there. When Jeremiah removed
the Ark from Solomons Temple, it wasn't so much to protect the vessel
as it was to protect God. Jeremiah knew that the Ark was the house of
God and he couldn't allow God's house, where God resided to fall into
the hands of the Hebrew enemy. Exodus (19:9-11)
“and
the Lord said unto Moses, lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that
the people may here when I speak with thee...and be ready against the
third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of
all the people upon mount Sinai.”
GOD
WOULD MANIFEST HIMSELF WITHIN THICK CLOUD OF SMOKE! :
Exodus
(24:16-17) “and mount Sinai was altogether in a smoke, because
the Lord desended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as
the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...And the
Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount.”
By
the way the above is a perfect description of a rocket/ spaceship
landing/launch.
Each
time God appeared on mount Sinai, the cloud materialized and the
presence of God which manifested within it is described as the “glory
of the Lord” a divine fire!
“And
the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered
it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the
midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like
devouring fire on top of the mount in the eyess of the children of
Israel.
Before
the Israelites left mount Sinai to continue their journey through the
wilderness, God ordered them to make the Ark. The Ark was made to
contain God himself!
Exodus
(25:8-10) “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I might dwell
among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of
the tabernacle, and the pattern of all instruments thereof, even so
shall ye make it. And they shall make the Ark of shittin wood: two
cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half
the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.”
The
most important part of the Ark without question is the mercy seat,
which God would be able to manifest: Exodus (25:17-22) “And thou
shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold...And thou shalt put the mercy
seat above upon the Ark...And there I will meet with thee, and I will
commune with thee from above the mercy seat.”
The
presence of God was now within the Ark, for when they left Mount
Sinai they were accompanied by a thick cloud that hung over it. Mind
you from my point of view when ever we are talking about God, I am
thinking we are talking about extraterrestial's most likely from the
star system Sirus, based on the ancient Sumerian tablets.
Moses
brother Pharoh Ahkenaten I believe was of extraterrestrial orgin, he
believed he was, ancient pictorals and scripts, and sculptures,
demonstrate non human feature, also of his wife and children. If
Moses and Aaron were his brother's I believe they would also be
extraterrestrial hybreds along with the Levite priests, which is why
only this group was allowed to be priests and be even close to the
Ark, all others were smoten. (NM 10:33-34)
“They
departed from the mount of the Lord three days journey: and the Ark
of the Covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days
journey, to search out a resting place for them. And the cloud of the
lord was upon them as they went out by day, when they left out of
the camp.”
Each
time the Israelite's made camp the Ark was put in the tabernacle, or
a “tent of congregation” behind a special veil or curtain. Exodus
(40:1-3)
“And
the Lord Spake unto Moses, saying, on the first day of the first
month shalt thou set up thy tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation. And thou shalt put therein the Ark of the testimony,
and cover the Ark with the veil.”
The
veil separated the Holy place of the Ark from the rest of the
tabernacle: Exodus(26:33) “and thou shalt hang up the veil under
the tatches, that thou mayest tither within the veil of the Ark of
the testimony: and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy
place and the most holy.
On
mount Sinai when God communed with Moses he appeared on the mount
top, now he appears in the form of a cloud at the Ark, from behind
the veil in the tabernacle. His presence could also be fatal as
Moses brother Aaron was warned: (lv16:2)
“ And
the Lord spoke unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come
not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy
seat, which is upon the Ark; that he die not: for I will appear in
the cloud upon the mercy seat. Exodus (40:34)
“Then
a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the
Lord filled the tabernacle.”
These
Bibical passages show that the pressence of the Lord is with the Ark
where ever it goes when previously it was thought to exist only on
mount Sinai. Like the Egyptian bark that carried the Egyptian god
Amun, the Ark of the Covenant was considered a means to carry God.
When
the Solomons Temple was built for the Holy of Holies to house god
something quite interesting happened as explained by King Solomon: “
The Lord said he would dwell in thick darkness. I have surley built
thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for
ever.”
The
importance of these passages is to demonstrate that the Israelite's
considered the Temple to be the actual abode of God, and if the
enemies of the Lord were to breach the city of Jerusalem and reduce
the Lords house to rubble, then the Lord must be removed to his
former residence, mount Sinai for his and the Israelite's protection.
The
Bible states that mount Sinai is somewhere in the Sinai wilderness,
but doesn't state where. In Exodus
(19:1-2):
“In
the third month when the children of Israel were gone forth out of
the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of
Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the
desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel
camped before the mount.”
The
Sinai wilderness is a very large area 250 miles by 220 miles 55,000
square miles by the Christen era the location of the Mountain of God
had been lost to history: it was rough stony inhospitable, and with
few areas of water and vegetation.
Mount
Sinai and mount Horeb or just Horeb are one in the same. The Edom
valley is known to the arabs as “Valley of Moses” also known as
“Wadi Musa”. It is said that this is the place that Moses created
a spring by striking a rock with his staff. The locals erected a
Mosqe over the site where even today there is a spring fed
rectangular pool.
“at
the foot of the mountain there is a spring, which is said to never
run dry. The people thereabouts say Moses, profet of god, peace upon
him, did bring it forth with hid staff.” (Arab chronicler Numairi)
If
this was the spring from Exodus, then perhaps the mountain rising
behind it was also the Mountain of God, mount/sinai-Horeb. The locals
long considered the mountain to be a sacred place and they called it
“Mountain of the Alter”. Their was an ancient alter over three
thousand years old on the summit of the mountain. This mountain is
so rugged that it is only accessible by hoarseback. The only
entrance to the valley of Edom was from the south for the valley is
surrounded by mountains just like a canyon. To enter the valley with
out going over the mountains is through a narrow gourge about nine
feet wide. It leads eastward through a mile of solid rock.
This
gourge is called the “cold canyon” because sunlight is blocked by
the sheer walls of the gourge hundreds of feet tall. After a mile
through the gullies winding route you finally come into the sunlight
with a magnificent view of a 150 foot structure, the alter, at the
summit of the mountain.
Two
towering collums, supporting a pediment of unbeleivable dimensions,
statue nitches and urn all carved into the mountains sheer cliff.
You can see this structure in Indiana Jones movie the Last Crusade,
where they find the Holy grail guarded by the ancient Knight Templar,
at the end they ride off through the gully I just described.
This
is thought to be a two thousand year old tomb. It had many large
chambers and cut rooms within the structure now known as the
treasury. This site became known as the treasury because in the 12th
century knights templars had discovered a vast treasure of jewls,
gold,and artifacts made out of pure gold.
More
on this in a future post. However this appears to be the site of the
Mountain of God where Moses comuned with God and received the ten
Commandments, and quite possibly the location of the lost Ark of the
Covenant, which very well may be in the hands of the knights
Templars!
