Isn’t the Bible just another mythical religious book?
NO! THE EVIDENCE OVERWHELMINGLY REFUTES THIS CLAIM!
A serious anti-Bible campaign got off the ground in the 1800s. When Darwin postulated random evolution, many of his contemporaries, turned off by a hypocritical church, jumped onto the bandwagon, believing they had been given an ‘out’ from belief in a Creator. Predictably, it wasn’t long before the Bible was placed under the microscope – and found to be ‘inaccurate’, ‘mythical’ or ‘allegorical’.
Some critics deemed the Bible writers totally uninformed, foolishly imagining things that did not exist. And so many, acting with woefully incomplete information, rushed into judgment. At that time, there was virtually no modern archaeology to “test” their assertions. What the critics did not expect was that hundreds of later historical claims would be substantiated by archaeological discoveries giving support to the Bible’s astounding accuracy. And often in minute detail.
Now we have evidence that the people, places and events they wrote about were indeed real. And as a personal friend of mine, who was a very experienced and knowledgeable field archaeologist, leading and or participating over many years in hands-on expeditions, once said, "here is the bottom line, beyond reasonable doubt, the Bible is better informed than its critics." - Jonathan Gray -Archaeologist
The historical setting is true to fact and the events described did really happen. Nelson Glueck, one of the world’s most eminent Middle Eastern archaeologists, would tell you much the same: It may be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. (Nelson 151 Glueck, Rivers in the Desert: History of Negev. Philadelphia: Jewish Publications Society of America, p.31)
Confronted with the evidence, the “myth” charge has failed. It seems we need to update our opinions. I submit to you that the authority of the Bible as literal history is substantiated not by academics in their ivory towers, but by hands-on archaeologists who follow the book’s directions and find physical remains from mentioned events. Actionable proof in real life.
What about David Icke he seems to be an expert, or at least he appears to promote himself as such. He has made many claims against the veracity of the scriptures. Here's one for you to consider.
Did MOSES, SOLOMON and King DAVID exist? I would say categorically no. (David Icke, The Biggest Secret. Bridge of Love Publications USA, Wildwood, MO, USA, 2001, p. 82)
Well let’s have a look and see if we can test this claim with facts. It is true that until fairly recently, there was no evidence outside the Bible for the existence of King David. But in 1993, a team of archaeologists in Israel led by Professor Avraham Biram, were excavating Tel Dan. This was a beautiful mound at the foot of Mount Hermon in northern Galilee, beside one of the headwaters of the Jordan River.
Anyway, on July 21 that year, they came upon a triangular piece of basalt rock, measuring 23 x 36 centimeters. Inscribed in Aramaic, it was eventually identified as part of a victory pillar erected by the king of Syria and later smashed by an Israelite ruler. The inscription on the stone dates to the 9th century BC. This was about a century after David was believed to have ruled Israel.
The inscription includes the words ‘Beit David’ (which means ‘House’ or ‘Dynasty of David’) and also refers to ‘King of Israel’. So you see, the inscription refers not simply to a David, but to the House of David, the dynasty of the king. This reference to David does strongly indicate that a king called David established a dynasty in Israel during the period that the Bible states. But that’s not all. In the inscriptions on a stele known as the Moabite stone, another scholar found the name ‘House of David’. This is similarly from around 900 BC, a hundred years after the alleged time of King David.
So I ask you, how did King David’s name appear in historical records if he were no more than a later literary invention? A mere myth!
As time passes, more such evidence involving Bible names and places is being discovered. And, like it or not, the skeptics are constantly having to retreat. Very well, so King David is real history. But where’s the evidence for King Solomon? Because I notice that our friend Icke, in his book, says, ‘Solomon – it’s all invention.’ ” (Ibid., p. 87)
Pardon me if I now ask, who is really inventing tales? Because archaeologists have been stumbling upon evidence after evidence of King Solomon. Temple Hill tablet: Israeli geologists announced on January 12, 2003 that they had examined a stone tablet dating to 800 BC which detailed repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon. Tests confirmed this Temple Hill Tablet, as they named it, to be authentic. (See the report by Laurie Copans, The Associated Press, January 14, 2003)
Of course, some stone tablet ‘finds’ are later presumed to be forgeries. But not this one. We must be careful not to confuse the two. Phoenician treaty record: The Bible speaks of a treaty that Solomon made with Hiram, king of the Phoenician city of Tyre. (1 Kings 5: 1,12) The historian Josephus informs us that a thousand years later, independently kept copies of this Phoenician treaty with King Solomon could be read in the public archives of Tyre in Phoenicia. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book VIII, Chapter II, Section 7)
Furthermore, an independent Ethiopian epic, the Kebra Nagast, written about 850 BC, tells the story of an Ethiopian queen’s visit to King Solomon of Israel and of the enormous riches and gifts that he showered upon her. In addition to this there is a mountain in Srinagar, India, called Tahkti Suleiman (‘Solomon’s Mountain’). Very strange, don’t you think, that a mountain in India’s highlands should be named after a Hebrew king – except that antiquity declares that King Solomon went there and arranged for the construction of the temple on the summit.
And further a Red Sea inscription, in 1984 a commemorative pillar was found on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba… close to chariot remains on the seabed. It bore an inscription in archaic Hebrew: “MIZRAIM (Egypt); SOLOMON; EDOM; DEATH; PHARAOH; MOSES; and YAHWEH”. Was this not erected by Solomon to mark the Israelite crossing of the sea? Despite all this evidence refuting Ickes claims, I still respect the critic’s right to say that Solomon never existed. After all we should all encourage freedom of thought and expression, As the Bible attests.
Indeed, Archaeology has furnished abundant evidence of biblical people, places and events As noted earlier, because so many names – and events – were known only from the Bible, these were blasted by critics as pure myth. But now archaeology has turned the whole situation around.
The following is a sampling from the almost countless examples:
• Pharaoh Shishak’s Palestinian campaign in the fifth year of King Rehoboam: a fragment of his victory monument found at Megiddo, confirms the biblical account. (1 Kings 14:25,26)
• Many fragments of beautifully carved ivory plaques from Ahab’s palace, described in the Bible as an ivory palace. (1 Kings 29:39)
• Assyrian inscriptions of Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC, against Hezekiah again confirm the Bible record. (2 Kings 18:13 to 19:36)
• Assyrian inscriptions mentioning the biblical kings Joash, Azariah and Manasseh, Ahab, Jehu, Jehoash, Menahem, Pekah and Hoshea.
• Babylonian receipts confirming the exile and food rations of Judah’s king Jehoiachin. (2 Kings 24:8-15; Jeremiah 52:30-34)
• Excavations at Susa in Iran, show the layout of the Persian palace in such perfect agreement with the biblical description of it in the Book of Esther that scholars have been led to admit that only someone well acquainted with the palace, its environs, its divisions, and its court ceremonial could have written it.
• Almost every Assyrian, Babylonian, or Persian ruler mentioned in the Bible has been rediscovered in contemporary documents – Shalmaneser, Tilgath-pileser, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Cyrus, Darius the Great, Xerxes, Sargon, and many others.
• Even officials whose names are in the Bible, such as Nebuzar adan (2 Kings 25:8) or Nergal-sharezer (Jeremiah 39:3) are met with in the official documents of their time.
What about Babylon’s fiery furnace
The Bible reveals three young Hebrew men being thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (Daniel ch. 3) …and others “whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire” (Jeremiah 29:22)
Excavators in the ruins of Babylon City uncovered a peculiar cone-shaped structure that appeared to be a firing-kiln for the production of brick or pottery. But when the cuneiform figures were deciphered, linguists were astonished to find this inscription: This is the place of burning where men who blasphemed the gods of Chaldea died by fire.
That the incidents recorded in the Bible concerning punishment in a fiery furnace were in keeping with the times is also shown by an inscription of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal:
Saulmagina my rebellious brother, who made war with me, they threw into a burning fiery furnace, and destroyed his life. Nebuchadnezzar’s son-in-law, in one of his royal inscriptions, claims to have “burned to death adversaries and disobedient ones.” Evidence that the Bible record is real history.
Daniel in the lion’s den
The biblical book of Daniel also records that the Hebrew captive Daniel was tossed into a den of lions. (Daniel chapter 6) That such ‘lion’s den’ punishment was in keeping with the times is now proven by the discovery of that same inscription of Ashurbanipal that we just mentioned. It continues thus: The rest of the people who had rebelled they threw alive among bulls and lions, as Sennacherib my grandfather used to do.
Lo, again following his footsteps, those men I threw into the midst of them. On one occasion, as the famed excavator Marcel Dieulafoy was digging amid the ruins of Babylon, he fell into a pit that appeared like an ancient well. After being rescued by his companions, he proceeded with the work of identification. How astonished was he to find that the pit had been used as a cage for wild animals! And upon the curb was this inscription: The Place of Execution, where men who angered the king died torn by wild animals.
The book of Daniel identifies Nebuchadnezzar as the builder of mighty Babylon. (Daniel 4:30) An inscription by Nebuchadnezzar found among Babylon’s ruins and now in the Berlin Museum states: I have made Babylon, the holy city, the glory of the great gods, more prominent than ever before, and have promoted its rebuilding. In fact, numerous bricks have been found in the ruins of Babylon, stamped with Nebuchadnezzar’s name.
According to the Bible, the last king of the Chaldeans was Belshazzar. (Daniel 5:2,30,31) This name was unknown outside the Bible (or works based on it). So, for centuries, scholars hotly denied Belshazzar ever existed. All secular histories dealing with that period listed the last king as Nabonidus.
Therefore, the book of Daniel was said to be a forgery, written not when claimed, but by some later ignorant writer. It was not until the 20th century that contemporary records bearing the name Belshazzar surfaced for the first time in archaeological digs. In 1924, Sidney Smith discovered a tablet in the British Museum which showed that Belshazzar was the eldest son of Nabonidus and that in ‘the third year’ Nabonidus ‘entrusted the kingship’ to his eldest son (as coregent) and also placed the army of Babylon under his command. This was a severe blow to critics who claimed the biblical book of Daniel to be a product of the 2nd century BC, and not a 6th century eyewitness report. (Babylonian Historical Texts. London, 1924, p. 88; Latest trans. By Oppenheim in Ancient Near Eastern Texts, ed. By Pritchard. Princeton, 1950, p. 313)
According to Cuneiform sources, Nabonidus was absent from Babylon at the time of its capture. A prayer tablet of Nabonidus says: “As for Belshazzar, the first born son, proceeding from my loins, place in his heart fear of thy divinity; let him not turn to sinning; let him be satisfied with the fullness of life.” Evidently the old king was quite worried over his wayward son. That Belshazzar was merely a co-ruler in Babylon is also indicated by the fact that in the Bible (Daniel 5:29)
Daniel is referred to as third ruler in the kingdom. So two other rulers are implied. Who were the other two? Nabonidus and Belshazzar! Intricate detail puzzles skeptics Professor R.H. Pfeiffer was typical of those who did not accept the book of Daniel as genuinely written in the 6th century BC, but claimed it to be a 2nd century BC forgery. However, his skepticism raised a problem for which he could find no answer.
The mystery facing him was how on earth could accurate information about Belshazzar have been put into the book of Daniel at a time when this king had been so completely forgotten in the ancient world that not one of the Greek authors mentions him? Therefore he wrote: We shall presumably never know how our author learned… that Belshazzar, mentioned only in Babylonian records, in Daniel, and in Baruch 1:11, which is based on Daniel, was functioning as king when Cyrus took Babylon in 538. (R.H. Pfeiffer, Introduction to the Old Testament. New York: 1941, pp. 758,759)
If one accepts the book of Daniel as genuine – that it was written when it says it was – the problem disappears. On the other hand, if a scholar does not want to give up his critical attitude, he finds himself in a serious dilemma. He cannot understand how a man of the Maccabean age (2nd century BC) could be so accurately informed about the historical events that took place 300 years earlier, when no reliable source material of that period existed any more.
And so this is a serious dilemma for the skeptic but it is not a problem for the serious bible student.
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Are Dinosaur remains really Millions of years old ?
PROTEIN STILL IN RECENTLY DISCOVERED DINOSAURS
Do you know what this means? If Dinosaurs were alive just recently, it dismantles the evolutionary time scale and reinforces the Biblical creation account. What? no way!, impossible it cannot be true Yes, very much so, Dinosaur bones have yielded the protein osteocalcin. Since long chains such as proteins naturally fall apart, such a discovery supports a ‘recent’ age for these fossils. (New Scientist, October 31, 1992, p.18)
In 1961, a petroleum geologist discovered a large bone bed in northwestern Alaska. Among these were bones of duckbill dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs and large and small carnivorous dinosaurs. At the time, William Clemens and other scientists from the University of California and Berkeley and the University of Alaska were quarrying the bone bed.
It took 20 years for scientists to accept that these were dinosaur bones. An initial announcement was printed in 1985 in Geological Society of America abstract programs vol.17, p.548. Already in press at that time was an article describing the site and the condition of the bones: Kyle L. Davies, “Duckbill Dinosaurs [Hadrosauridae, Ornithischia] from the North Slope of Alaska”, Journal of Paleontology, vol.61, no.1, pp.198-200)
Now, here is the problem: these bones are still in fresh condition. They are not fossilised. Is this because they were preserved by cold? Not at all. It is standard geological interpretation that even after the dinosaurs died out, the entire planet was much warmer. These developments are certainly food for thought. It is undeniable that fresh dinosaur bones have been found. Items have appeared in the secular literature saying exactly that. It is also evident that preservation in the fresh state for even one million years is highly unlikely.
The obvious conclusion is that these bones were deposited in relatively recent times. This bone bed is stunning evidence that the time of the dinosaurs was not millions of years ago, but perhaps only thousands. It is time geologists recognised the implications of their own data.
UNFOSSILISED BLOOD CELLS
Real blood cells in dinosaur bones? With traces of the blood protein hemoglobin Preposterous!… that is, if you think these dinosaur remains are 65 million years old or more. Okay, let me share with you another discovery. In the United States in 1990, the bones of a beautifully preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton were unearthed. When these were brought to the Montana State University's laboratory, it was noticed that “some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.” ( M. Schweitzer and T. Staedter, 'The Real Jurassic Park', Earth , June 1997 pp. 55-57)
Mary Schweitzer and her co-workers took turns looking through a microscope at a thin section of this dinosaur bone, complete with blood vessel channels. She says: “The lab filled with murmurs of amazement, for I had focused on something inside the vessels that none of us had ever noticed before: tiny round objects, translucent red with a dark center.
Then a colleague took one look at them and shouted, 'You've got red blood cells. You've got red blood cells!'” Schweitzer says, “I got goose bumps. It was exactly like looking at a slice of modern bone.” She confronted her boss, famous paleontologist 'Dinosaur' Jack Horner.
“I can’t believe it,” she said. “The bones, after all, are 65 million years old. How could blood cells survive that long?” “How about you try to prove they are NOT red blood cells,” responded Horner. So she tried. And the verdict? “So far, we haven't been able to.” The evidence that hemoglobin (the protein which makes blood red and carries oxygen) has indeed survived in this dinosaur bone casts immense doubt upon the 'millions of years' idea.
Here is that evidence:
The tissue was colored reddish brown, the color of hemoglobin, as was liquid extracted from the dinosaur tissue. Hemoglobin contains heme units. Chemical signatures unique to heme were found in the specimens when certain wavelengths of laser light were applied. Because it contains iron, heme reacts to magnetic fields differently from other proteins - extracts from this specimen reacted in the same way as modern heme compounds.
To ensure that the samples had not been contaminated with certain bacteria which have heme (but never the protein hemoglobin), extracts of the dinosaur fossil were injected over several weeks into rats. If there was even a minute amount of hemoglobin present in the Tyrannosaurus Rex sample, the rats' immune system should build up detectable antibodies against this compound. This is exactly what happened in carefully controlled experiments.
Evidence of hemoglobin, and the still-recognizable shapes of red blood cells in unfossilized dinosaur bone, testifies strongly that this dinosaur did not live and die millions of years ago. The process of biochemical decay starts soon after death. These cells should long since have disintegrated unless they are just a few thousand years old. Evolution theory has very little power to convict let alone a leg to stand on. So, what really happened to the Dinosaur’s?
Noah's Flood fact or fiction?
SHIPS COVERED BY MOUNTAINS
Who has heard of such things? The buried remains of large, well-formed boats / ships, have been found in several places, actually – in either solid stone or at remarkable depths underground. To list a few, they have been found in Switzerland. - (Switzerland: B. Fregoso, De dictisfactisqi Memorabilibus Collectanea. Medoliani, 1509, np) Also in Russia. (P.J. Strahlenberg, A historical-description of the northern part of North and Eastern Europe and Asia. London, 1738, 462 pp; see p.405) And also, in Africa. (General Literature and Miscellaneous Communications: no 17 “Ship discovered in the Earth in Africa”, 1818, QJI Lit Sci Arts Lond, vol. v, p.150)
The Swiss discovery occurred in 1460 when miners were digging for metals in the canton of Berne. The ship was buried 100 feet deep inside the mountain. They also unearthed an anchor of iron. But what horrified these miners more than anything else was the bizarre sight among the ship’s timbers of the bones and skulls of forty men.
WARNINGS – AND SKEPTICISM
You know, as humans we are notoriously skeptical of warnings. It seems we have an ingrained reluctance to believe messengers of doom, as we like to call them. Can you imagine the uproarious laughter when that crazy eccentric Noah first told his fellows that he was preparing a survival vessel? And why? Because there was soon to be global destruction by water! The bible claims Noah was a preacher of righteousness in whom the Spirit of the Lord pleaded with man for over one hundred years.
What was the reply? Well, your guess is as good as mine but if the Bible as I have found, can be trusted, then the “there’s nothing new under the sun” admonition seems reasonable to me. And therefore, it could’ve been something like this “Oh, come off it!” say the scientific gurus mockingly. “Everyone knows there’s not enough water on earth for such an event.” And others who may have been competent mariners could have replied thus “there’s never been any flood in the past and anyway we have boats,” and you may have possibly heard others soothing their peers. “We can save ourselves.”
Ahh -THE UNEXPECTED STRIKES
And then it happened, the most terrible cataclysmic incident ever experienced. The sudden tilting of the planet’s axis, bringing terrific stresses upon the earth’s surface, enough to shatter and dislocate it beyond description. The whole globe shuddered and whatever the catalyst, it was of TITANIC POWER.
The same external force that tipped the earth over, generated high speed ultra-vibrations within the earth. It disrupted the designed balance within the earth, unleashing a literal thermonuclear meltdown. The huge amounts of water that were encased under the earth’s granite crust, began heating rapidly. This heat added to pressure, which added to the heat, and more pressure. And in a matter of minutes something had to give. The pressure build-up became enormous. And the earth’s granite crust exploded. The waters, under super-pressure, began to rip the earth apart at the seams.
Suddenly a CRACK APPEARS and soon continents form.
At first, there would have appeared a microscopic crack, which grew in both directions. At the speed of about 2½ miles a second, following the path of least resistance, the crack would have begun to move around the earth encircling the globe in about eight minutes. Under great pressure, other cracks were soon opening. As these great cracks joined, a volcanic flame throwing effect would have resulted and in these brief moments the earth was being ripped apart forming continents.
EARTHQUAKES
With the sudden rupture of the granite crust, the stresses and friction would have been enormous. The tilting of the earth’s axis generated a devastating earthquake. The original extent of this “great deep” is indicated by the depth of the disturbed layers of the earth today. The earth’s stratified layers are, on average, about half a mile (one kilometre) deep. Some oil fields which have filled these basins have a depth of over 3 miles, while the deepest sediment filling these holes has been measured at 10 miles (16 kilometres). These basins, before the Big Event, were filled with vast amounts of water.
CANOPY COLLAPSES
The earth is believed to have had an enveloping canopy, just as Venus and Jupiter do today. This canopy (transparent, in this case) shielded the earth from deadly cosmic radiation, as well as moderating a sub-tropical climate from pole to pole. Now, with the radioactive balance under the earth disturbed, violent energy was released. Vast amounts of water were suddenly heated to over 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
Under enormous pressure, the water exploded through the granite crust. It was expelled at such force that narrow jets shot 70 miles into the sky. The first hot jets of water would have shot against the canopy. They ripped open holes or windows in the canopy. As the book of Genesis
puts it, “the windows of heaven were opened.” The sides of those holes began to collapse. Soon the entire outer canopy began to disintegrate. The result: sudden, violent temperature changes. In certain areas, due to the lines of force at the earth’s magnetic poles, the canopy would disintegrate as blocks of ice. But universally it would descend as rain.
The collapsing canopy poured down in such volume and force, the result was disastrous. This condensing mass of extra water made it possible for torrential rain to fall continuously over the entire earth for six weeks non-stop. It was at this time that these waters entered our present oceans.
And since the daily rotation of the earth was now disturbed, the planet’s waters were set into excessive tidal action. Moved by inertia, tidal waves rushed up over the land. The water that would soon cover the earth was coming from three sources: the underground basins, the firmament canopy, and thousands of new volcanoes. And as the deluge swept over the land, some may have been in their boats at sea some would have headed out to sea to escape the carnage but they were all overwhelmed.
At Naples, Italy, in the 16th century, after an earthquake split open a mountain, another large ship was found again, inside the mountain. And at Peru, in South America in around 1540, near Callao, Spanish miners were following a vein of gold and silver where deep underground, they were startled to come upon an ancient ship. (P. Cieza de Leon, La Cronica del Peru: Part One. Seville, 1553, pp. xxxii and 367)
Ovid likewise speaks of ancient ship anchors found on the tops of the highest mountains. I have seen some myself, at thousands of feet above sea level. It’s true!
Well, it is probably needless to say that if such a devastating event did occur in our past, then all our conceptions of the history of this earth will have to be revised. The fact is, there are cultural legends worldwide, concerning such an event, in which the stark terror of men and women still lives on… the screams as they stampede to higher ground… and a single, small group of survivors, who repopulate the planet.
This is the most widespread and deeply rooted tradition on earth. These global traditions make it crystal-clear that this Great Deluge was no mere Mesopotamian flood.
As many a scientific researcher has found, legends tend to be based on a core of fact. Many an archaeological find has been made from the clues found in such legends. But it is not only racial memory. Geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence for this event is embarrassingly abundant.
Could our present Uniformitarian scientific establishment be wrong? Could there really have been such a cosmic global disaster as the Great Flood? And was this re-shaping event far greater than we can ever conceive? And has Noah's Ark been found?
NO EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
Can't be! Surely BABEL is a Myth
According to evolution theory, human languages are developing from meaningless sounds to ever more perfect languages. But if the origin of man, including his ability to speak, occurred by evolution, then why are the most HIGHLY STRUCTURED, COMPLEX and SOPHISTICATED languages found among the most backward and culturally “primitive” tribes? Most of them are more complicated in grammar than the tongues spoken by civilised people. And secondly why is there no such thing as a primitive language?
In every culture on the planet, the language is complex. The idea of SIMPLE languages among primitive people does not coincide with fact and there is a massive gulf between human and animal sounds. The languages of even the most ‘primitive’ tribes are extremely complex – and are removed by a great gulf from the chattering’s of the most ‘advanced’ apes, as well as other animals.
All animal sounds are more or less on the same level of complexity. Human speech is absolutely distinct from animal communication. And the ability to articulate and communicate even abstract concepts is the basic aspect of human culture. No society is known at any point in history which did not have a fully developed language. We find no support at all for any kind of evolutionary development of language. There is NO EVIDENCE nor any EXPLANATION for such an assumed evolution of language. Certainly, there has been much change in language, but not in a simple-to-complex sequence.
ONE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
The fact is, that the whole world once spoke the same language and this knowledge survives in the racial memory of many people. For example a fragmentary Sumerian tablet copied by the Oxford cuneiformist Oliver Gurney speaks of a time when “the whole universe” spoke “in one tongue.” The epic tale Enmerker and the Lord of Araita, published by Professor S.N. Kramer, of the University of Pennsylvania, records that all mankind spoke one and the same language until Enki, the Sumerian god of wisdom, confounded their speech.
The idea that there was a time when all men spoke the same language is found also in ancient Egyptian and Indian writings. Even the Popul Vuh, a book of the Central American Maya records that “those who gazed at the rising of the sun [the ancestors who formerly lived eastward of the Americas]… had but one language… before going west.” Yes, one language… and a unified alphabet. Yes! evidence for an original single worldwide language is substantial.
In 2002, some very ancient petroglyphs were discovered in the remote canyons in the Comanche National Grassland, just south of La Junta, Colorado. There was something special about these particular petroglyphics. The ancient alphabetic symbols were virtually identical to those found in the Har Karkom region of the Negev desert of Israel, in South Australia, in Yemen, in Chile (South America), and in the British Isles! This same ancient alphabet has now been found on six continents. This has been referred to as “The First Tongue”.
According to the book of Genesis, all once spoke the same language. “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” (Gen.11:1) Genesis recounts a dramatic event that changed this. This is where our investigation will now take us.
The native Mexican chronicler, Ixtilxochitl, in his Relaciones, records an ancient Toltec tradition that the descendants of the Flood survivors built a “zacuali” (tower) of great height. After this, their tongues became confused and, not understanding one another, they went to different parts of the world. The 7 families who spoke the Toltec language set out for the New World. They wandered for 104 years over large extents of land and water.
Finally, they arrived at Huehue Tlapallan 520 years after the Flood. Other peoples, such as the Chaldeans, the Hindus and the Chiapa of the Americas, to name a few, were discovered with a tradition which not only agrees with the Genesis account of the way Babel was built, but with the confusion of tongues and the subsequent dispersal.
Even the isolated inhabitants of the Fijian Islands recorded a tradition of a building just like the Tower of Babel. There are also Australian Aboriginal tribal legends which appear to be corrupted memories of those events up to, and including, the time they separated from the other peoples. These legends include the “dispersion of the tongues” which occurred at Babel.
In his writings, the Greek historian Hestaeus speaks of “olden traditions” that the people who escaped the Deluge came to Senaar (compare this with the biblical “Shinar” in Genesis 11:2) but were driven away from there by a diversity of tongues. Yes, the event of the dispersion of tongues is firmly fixed in our global racial memory. The Genesis account turns out to be no myth. A thorough scientific and historical treatment of the whole languages story may be found in the book Babel at the SHOP page.
The Tower of Babel
The book of Genesis tells of the exodus of a group of people from the area first settled by the Flood survivor Noah and his descendants after the Flood.
“And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime [bitumen] had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven: and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” (Gen.11:2-4)
The presence of oil here, in the Middle Eastern region, about 4,000 years after the time of Babel, indicates that an ample supply of bitumen most likely could have been obtained by the builders of this infamous city and tower, just as Genesis says.
THE REBELLION
The tower, dedicated “unto heaven” (to the worship of the host of heaven, an astrological system) was the actual headquarters of a rebel movement which aimed to seize control of the world. According to the record, building the tower was a case of clear-cut DEFIANCE of the Creator.
In the first place, God had promised never to send another universal Flood; the tower builders said God had lied (and they decided that to protect themselves from another Flood they should build a great tower whose top would reach above the deepest flood waters). In the second place, the Flood had destroyed only the rebels. The Creator Himself had protected the faithful. The tower builders were saying that they would live exactly as they pleased, and would protect themselves. God was superfluous.
Once again, the Almighty intervened. He did this in a manner that caused them to comply with His command to “replenish the earth”. The leader of the rebels, Nimrod, who is recorded in scripture as being a mighty man at the time, persuaded the people that they could find security without God if they stayed together under his rule. There was an urgency about being connected. They conceived a plan for a united world government.
Oppressive and cruel laws were planned by Nimrod and his henchmen. Had they gone unchecked, they would have demoralised the world in its infancy. The symbol of their defiance – the tower of Babel – was already reaching high above the plain. Then it happened. Many factors were involved. But, in brief, there was an interruption to their plan.
THE LANGUAGE CONFOUNDED:
“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city… Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Gen.11:7-9)
They no longer could understand each other. There was a sudden multiplication of languages. One can imagine the scene. Maybe the ones next to certain others could understand one another, but those below them only heard gibberish when the next call came for materials. In any case, the scene must have been one of chaos. It is impossible to imagine what it must have been like. All we are told is that at some point after this “confusion” of languages, they ceased work on the city and were scattered “abroad upon the face of all the earth”.
People now wanted to get away from each other. The inevitable result was that those who understood each other moved off together. So began the DISPERSION from the Mesopotamian plain in all directions, north, south, east and west.
Imagine the scene, SUDDENLY many, many different languages were spoken. In the confusion, what would you do? Firstly, everyone would find those who speak their own language. Then decisions would be made about what to do next. It would be almost impossible to continue planting, harvesting, building, with those to whom you cannot communicate. Especially back then when there were no translators.
The next step would most likely be to find a separate place to live. You’d need room to raise your crops; fields for your flocks; and space to build a permanent settlement. Some language groups may set out and settle 25 miles from the original town; others would have to travel 100 miles or even more before they could find a suitable location.
As time passed, the land nearby would already be taken and new groups would have to travel further and further away to find a suitable location. Some might be more ambitious and travel much, much further – perhaps 1,000 miles away. But, as with all things, there would survive remnants of many, many of the original language groups in the general area. And today, nowhere else on earth can you find so many different tongues being spoken in such a small area:
Many ancient races and tribes still inhabit the Caucasus [the mountains above Noah’s Ark which form the northern barrier of the Araxes plain] and the Armenian plateau of eastern Anatolia. As many as fifty different languages and dialects are spoken in this vast and, in parts, inaccessible region.” (Legends of the World”, edited by Richard Cavendish, 1989, p.137) Strabo informs us (Book XI,5), that no less than seventy Dialects were spoken in the country, which even then was called the Mountain of Languages. (The New Learned History Encyclopaedia, 1922, col VIII, p.6,743) The further one travels from this area, the fewer languages we find being spoken in an area (except in cases of immigration, such as in the USA and Australia).
This evidence alone is sufficient to show where the languages began. Genesis chapter 10 gives us a photo-start breakdown of the 46 basic language groups which were formed into nations at the time of the Babel dispersion. This figure is not unrealistic in regard to the active language groups in the world today. From these originals, the languages of the earth have developed. Of course, there are now thousands of languages, but there is a definite grouping of them (Aboriginal, Sino-Tibetic, Dravidian, and so on.)
Careful study of these basic modern language groups shows that they are not in excess of the number allowed for in Genesis 10. While the biblical story of the confusion of tongues and the forced worldwide dispersion from Babel is commonly ridiculed by skeptics and considered a myth, there is certainly no better explanation for the origin of the different families of languages. In opposition to this is the bankrupt theory of evolution which is completely unable to adequately account for even the origin of one human language. So it really gets back to in the beginning God.
HIJACKED
Will you be rescued? The choice is yours!
Most are not aware that our world has been taken captive. Forces hostile to us have taken over our planet – our courts, our governments, science, education, the media, the entertainment industry, the medical industry, the legal and illegal drug trade, and they have infiltrated mainstream religion as well. And we have fallen victim to the same syndrome as a kidnap victim, passively identifying with our malevolent captor! Strange, but true! Our whole world has been held captive for thousands of years – and we have come to identify with our captors.
As a New Zealand government figure Murray McLean admitted to a close friend of mine, “We are not the ones in control. We are following the directions of internationalists outside the country.” And they, in turn, are controlled by others …unseen, whom we shall identify later. It is they who are plunging our world into its current financial crisis. They need to collapse every nation’s economy, so they can replace it with their One World Government. A new religio/political and commercial system. A Conspiracy Theorist statement? No, it is a statement of fact.
And if you are turned off by fake religious people? I understand. So am I. But this is not about religion or non-religion. It is not just about a religious viewpoint (atheistic, agnostic, New Age, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever). It is not about that. These ae all crafty distractions. It is really about a spiritual war being waged against us. It is happening in your own home town or district. This is a conflict of epic proportions. And of such importance that not a single person alive on this planet should ignore it. Behind the scenes, a cosmic drama is being played out, involving the whole universe. To keep earths population separated from the creator and on a path of self will in opposition to Him.
...my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:10-12
The earliest civilizations believed that a rebellion had occurred in the heavens and that banished rebels had hijacked this infant planet?
Would it surprise you to learn that nearly all writings of ancient peoples worldwide tell the same story of a fall from the original paradise state of peace, love and happiness?... a departure from harmony with the Creator? The “Fall” as it was termed, became fixed in our racial memory.
It is described as the origin of being alienated and at odds with each other. From Sumeria to the Americas, art and literature recorded this Fall. In China, Egypt and Babylonia, indeed among all peoples, this tragedy of Satan’s invasion is the oldest racial memory. The loss of immortality caused by man’s disobedience to divine law seems to have been keenly felt by more than one ancient writer. (For example, the Mesopotamian Temptation Seal – now in British Museum.
Also Adapa Myth and the Gilgamesh Epic. A translation of the Adapa Myth made by E.A. Speiser is found in J.B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near East Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. Princeton, N.J., 1969, pp. 101-103.
A translation of the Gilgamesh Epic made by Speiser is found in Ancient Near East Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp. 72-79. See especially, pp. 88,90,96.
Alfred Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, 4th ed. Leipzig 1930, p.99.
W. H. Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, vol. 1. London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1948, p.380)
Many prayers and hymns of the ancients impressively reveal how these people clearly understood the principles of our creators’ moral standards for mankind as contained in the Ten Commandments and they knew quite well what was right and wrong. And being fully conscious of their rebellious condition they longed for forgiveness.
In ancient Babylon, man was believed to live under a curse, a spell, from which only a divine act of cleansing could free him. Egyptian writings reveal a similar understanding: that the people were aware of a condition of wrong doing and that they had a longing for eternal life and even felt a need for some kind of rescue. A Babylonian tablet calls it “The Revolt in Heaven”. Mexican tradition likewise recounts the war in heaven, the fall of Zontemonque and the other rebellious spirits, the Creation, and the subsequent entrapment of mankind by the rebel.
Yes, it was universally understood by the ancient civilizations that there was a conflict raging between two major personalities and their followers. Today it continues. America, the European community, Arabs, Israelis, Russia, or China are really just minor players. But all of us are caught up in it. We are involved in a drama that is being watched with breathless interest by all the universe.
Today, although most don’t know it, the world’s largest, wealthiest and most powerful religio/political/commercial organization in partnership with others of a satanic bend is on the side of the hijackers. Founded primarily on politics, it does not promote the Christianity taught by Jesus, but answers to a Satanic agenda. Its primary aim of world rulership is now almost within reach. This Political / Religious power’s “Christian-looking” front has the world mesmerized. Its public relations have been so successful that when most people think of “Christianity” or even “religion”, this organization comes to mind and it is promoted globally as having answers for the seemingly endless problems confronting mankind.
Rome’s Jesuits have successfully infiltrated or control all key world organizations. The Supreme Jesuit General is in command of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Scottish Rite Shriner Freemasonry, the Knights of Columbus, B’nai B’rith [Jewish Masonry], the Nation of Islam, the Mafia, Opus Dei, and the Ku Klux Klan, along with a host of lesser Brotherhoods.” (Saturday Evening Post, January 17, 1959)
Whether it be the CIA, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of America, the FBI, KGB, FEMA, Freemasonry, Mossad, German BND, the British SIS, or M16, the top is invested with Jesuits (Jonathan Gray, Welcome, Then Betrayal, 2008, pp.155-157,170-179,207-216),
And so are the New World Order players, the New Age movement, the Trilateral Commission, the C.F.R., the Illuminati, UFOism, the world’s governments, the judiciary, military, universities, the pharmaceutical industry, sports and entertainment industries. Rome is pulling all the strings. She has the best intelligence service on the planet.
The top leaders in the various Jesuit infiltrated religions, as well as leaders of nations, are high Masons – who take orders secretly from the highest Mason who wears the ephod – the pope. They are the “esoterics”. By the time they get that far in their training, they know that they are really following Satan or as they would prefer to call him Lucifer.
The well-meaning members who have joined at the lower levels (whom the “esoterics” mockingly call “catechumen” = human cattle) do their chosen “good works”, unaware that their respective organizations are set up to follow Lucifer. The heads of Rome, the heads of Masonry, and the heads of the Church of Satan are basically of the same religion worshipping the same god, Lucifer.
In acknowledgement of this, the top men all give the same two-horned-fingers satanic hand signal. Ordinary honest people in “the one true faith” as Catholicism is labeled are lulled into acceptance by hearing “Jesus” words, seeing “holy” pictures, and kissing images of saints. When they wake up and discover what this is really all about, there will be a perfect storm!
All roads to ruin lead through Lucifer and his invisible government. Mankind is indeed in the malignant grip of a satanic cult. Too sick to diagnose its ILLNESS, it is afflicted by a debilitating spiritual disease. The aim of Satan is the complete rebellion of the human race toward the creator and ultimately if possible, man’s total destruction. However despite this diabolical and crafty goal the Almighty has provided a way of escape into a perfect world with no sin and death. This has been available to mankind since our fall and will continue through to the final conflict and was wonderfully revealed around 3000 years ago.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalm 2:1-12
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
ACTs 4:10-12
A Global Flood -Impossible
NOT ENOUGH WATER TO DO IT
It’s been claimed there’s not enough water on earth for a worldwide Flood, I've even heard the argument that if all the clouds over the earth emptied themselves simultaneously, the earth would not be covered by even one foot of water?”
Well, Yes I concede that's a problem and how could I possibly wriggle out of that.? Are you ready? here goes!
Let’s start with the ice stored on top of Greenland and Antarctica, if only those two masses were released, the sea would rise by 150 feet. Sure, that may cover thousands of towns and cities but not the mountains.
Presently, about 71 percent of our globe is covered by water and 29 percent is dry land. The area of the Pacific Ocean alone is nearly 10 million square miles greater than all the continents and islands added together. Did you know that the average depth of the ocean is 13,000 feet and the average height of the land is only 2,300 feet? So the ocean is, on average, 5½ times deeper than the land is high. That means there is about 18 times more water below sea level than there is dry land above it. If all the land now above the sea were poured into the ocean, it would fill only one eighteenth of the oceans.
Again, if all the land were smoothed out (no mountains, no ocean basins), the water would completely cover it to a depth of 1½ miles – 7,800 feet of water over the entire surface of the earth. It’s an established fact that most of the earth’s mountains are of recent formation in historical times, that is. There is good reason to believe that the pre-Flood mountains were not as high as today. It is also agreed that sea beds can rise and continents sink. This being so there is no difficulty whatever in finding enough water, even for a universal flood.” (See an article by Lt. Col. Davies, in Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute. London, 1930, p.95)
3 SOURCES OF THE FLOOD WATERS
1. Underground basins
Huge amounts of water were locked under the earth’s crust. These were “broken up” as the Deluge began.According to tests, “there is an additional, virtually inexhaustible supply of ‘primary’ water that is independent of rainfall. Like the geologists’ juvenile water, it comes from the depths of the earth. Carried along underground channels, natural pressure forces it upwards towards the surface of the ground, often in places impossible to predict by geological methods. Dowsers perceive this water as flowing through a vast network of vein-like faults in rock, occasionally rising even to the tops of hills in natural pipes, and then spreading out in a dome like the spokes of an umbrella. In conventional geology books, there is nothing to support this. Nevertheless, inexplicable sources of water have occasionally been noted.” (Francis Hitching, World Atlas of Mysteries. London: Pan Books, Ltd., 1978, p.95)
To their surprise, scientists drilling the world’s deepest well near Kola in northern Russia found deep underground large
open channels filled with hot, mineral-rich water.
(World Book of Science. Year 1987, art. “The World’s Deepest Well”, pp.206-207)
2. Thousands of volcanoes
When the earth’s crust was suddenly shattered, perhaps as many as 30,000 volcanoes erupted in unison, each giving off
millions of gallons of water a day. Volcanoes expel water vapour as well as cinders.
3. Water canopy
An antediluvian water canopy enveloping the earth (but that’s another subject) was precipitated at the time of the Deluge. It contained enough water to cascade as torrential rain over the whole earth for six weeks non-stop. It was at this time that these waters entered our present oceans. This thermal water blanket exists no longer. The great masses of waters which destroyed the world are still lying in the depths of the expanded ocean.
MOST OF THE EARTH IS STILL FLOODED
Come to think of it, the Flood waters never totally went away. Before the Great Flood, the proportion of land area to water area was larger, perhaps very much larger, than now. At some time in the past, much of the present sea bottom was dry land. Late during the Flood, the crust of the earth was pushed up, raising land and pushing wider the ocean bed to receive the run-off water. This water covers large areas that, before the Great Flood, were land.
So it may be said that the waters of the Flood still lie over large portions of the earth. Who doesn’t love the sea, watching the waves race in, one after another, toward the shore, hearing them crash, seeing them splash over the rocks! Now, whenever I am on a boat I gaze out over the restless blue… and ponder. At least 30 percent of this huge mass of water was added as a result of the Great Deluge. Down there, under the boat, is land where people once walked and breathed. I am looking at the waters of Noah that never went away. Can you imagine those men and women of the pre-Flood era? Undoubtedly there were many who protested, “There’s not enough water on earth to produce a worldwide Flood.” And they had more reason to say that than do we.
Radiometric dating can it be trusted?
WHY AREN'T WE TOLD THE TRUTH
Radiometric dating can it be trusted? Some swear by others claim its useless in dating the past! Many may be surprised and exclaim what do you mean? useless! Well perhaps we should supply some examples. Human remains found deep in a delta deposit near New Orleans, Louisiana, were dated at 57,000 years but when wood from the gunwale of a Kentucky flatboat was found deeper, the 57,000 years shrank to 200 or less.
Also, C-14 dating of Egyptian pharaohs’ tombs have registered mummies 500 years ‘older’ than their sarcophagi! And grains older than the containers in which they were found. A field archaeologist must not take anything for granted. This was something I had to check out. During many years of living in Australia, I made several visits to the island state of Tasmania. I know of a farmer near the town of Burnie who was removing some fence posts on his property. These had been set in the ground less than 100 years earlier. He discovered that the in-ground portion of each post had actually opalised.
The farmer mischievously sent samples of the petrified wood to two Australian institutions, asking them to date the wood. The institutions were La Trobe University in Melbourne and the National University in Canberra. The two labs dated the two specimens at two vastly different ages, one insisting that the wood was 100,000 years old. When the farmer protested that this was not so, he was assured that this had to be the age of the wood.
These kind of things began to get me worried. What was going on here? Can you see? Something is wrong , drastically wrong. This kind of evidence should be enough to discredit the
system.
WHO IS BEHIND THIS DECEPTION?
I won’t bore you with how dating systems are worked out. But I can tell you these. Most ages obtained by one method DISAGREE with the ages obtained by other methods. For example, most radiometric “ages” don’t match fossil “ages” but what about carbon dating? You ask. Carbon dating is used to determine how long ago something died. A series of measurements of samples of known age, extending back about 3,800 years, has shown fairly good agreement. But
something dramatic occurred on earth about 4,300 years ago to upset this. And beyond that time, dating figures run wild.
COVER-UP
This may shock you, but a cover-up is in full swing. The carbon-14 technique, during its development, uncovered some startling, publicly undisclosed, evidence of an earth far younger than you and I have been told. There is a group of men will a philosophical mindset that needs to bolster the evolution theory at all costs. And this includes deceiving you and me, covering up evidence, and even dumping a boat load of evidence in the Carribean Sea! They are playing you and me for suckers. And many of us have been swallowing it. Just get this, will you? The same piece of basalt rock from Nigeria gave ages (by different methods) from 2 to 750 million years. (Nature Physical Science, vol.232, pp.60-61)
In eight separate tests, scientists dated samples of rock – and arrived at ages of 160 million to 3 billion years. These specimens, from Kaupelehu, Hualalai Volcano, Hawaii, were later found to have formed in a lava flow only 168 years earlier, in 1801. (Science, vol.162, p.265. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.73, p.4601. American Journal of Science, vol.262, p.154)
Rock samples from twelve volcanoes in Russia and ten samples from other parts of the world (all known to be less than 200 years old), gave ages by the uranium-thorium-to lead method varying from millions to billions of years. Suppose you were admitted to hospital. And after tests were made, the doctors each gave you a different, contradictory diagnosis, would you trust them to operate on you? You’ve got to be kidding.
These dating tests need to be questioned. If rocks of KNOWN ages yield such unrealistic dates, why should we accept so gullibly the ages yielded by rocks of UNKNOWN age? What bothers me is this. We have otherwise cautious scientists gulping down these dating’s about as avidly as the most gullible amateurs. Something is wrong here drastically wrong with our dating systems. If a construction engineer came up with contradictory calculations like that, he would be dismissed from the construction job.
Henry Faul, writing in Nuclear Geology, says: “MOST of the ages obtained by the lead: thorium method DISAGREE with the ages of the same minerals computed by other lead methods.” (Henry Faul, Nuclear Geology, p. 295) TRUST us, they say. Our DATING is fine. The naivety of that claim is so breathtaking, And if you introduce a catastrophe (such as a global Deluge), then the present state of the earth’s crust has not resulted from long eons of uniformity, but largely by natural processes acting on a mega scale during the Deluge.
The truth is, every dating method we operate today is invalid as a scientific test for the past. So when you’re told a certain date has been proved, you are hearing someone who either doesn’t understand the scientific test, or who (hopefully not) is deliberately lying to you.
Is Islam mentioned in the Bible?
YOU MAY BE SHOCKED
When I first announced that some old prophecies possibly foretold what Islam will do, there were a few skeptics. But before I go any further let’s consider what a man in the mid-19th century suggested based on his understanding of scripture. At the time, the Muslim Ottoman empire was still a leading world power. And European nations were afraid because Islam had been striking fear into the heart of Europe for 400 years.
Then in 1838 a scholar named Josiah Litch, announced publicly that the mighty Ottoman Empire "will lose supremacy on August 11, 1840." Many thought what an OUTRAGEOUS comment and an absurd speculation on PROPHECY. Would you stick your neck out like this man did? He wasn’t suggesting this to a few friends the whole world knew he had predicted it and most people found it very hard to accept what Litch was saying.
Not only did Litch announce that this unlikely event would take place "two years from now, in 1840," but more than that, he pushed his prophecy further: "It is going to happen in the month August that year. And not just in August, but on the 11th day of August... in that very year, month, and day, and at no other time!"
Can you imagine the loud laughter of the skeptics? The cries went up, "Oh, come off it! Don't be ridiculous! That Muslim empire has been around for hundreds of years. They're so powerful, striking terror into Europe. And you're saying we won't have to deal with them in two years? Get real!"
As the time approached, thousands watched with intense interest. Non-believers waited to see the prophecy fail. August 11 dawned. Can you imagine the conversation that Josiah Litch and his family were having that morning at breakfast. "Today is the day," says Josiah. "Today the Ottoman empire will lose its supremacy." Or perhaps his heart experienced a moment of doubt, did I really hear from God, are the scriptures really making this claim.
Steadying himself and reassuring himself perhaps he thought, I am absolutely certain it is going to happen, I have been over it so many times and checked and re-checked the prophecy so many times. It is clear and certain.
As the day progressed, on the other side of the world, delegates of five nations come together for an historic meeting. The four great powers of Europe, - Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria - met with the Sultan of the Turkish Empire.
A war had broken out between Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt and the Sultan's subjects in Syria. This threatened the integrity of the Ottoman Empire. Feeling vulnerable, not sure he could successfully handle the situation, the Sultan sensed his throne was in danger. There was a fear also that the security of Europe might come under threat.
So the Sultan of Turkey asked the four European powers - Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria - to intervene. And so it was that on August 11, 1840, the Turkish leader voluntarily signs a paper that takes away the independence and power of the Turkish Sultan forever. Turkish supremacy is passed to these four European powers, who have come together in a "coalition of the
willing".
So now the Muslim Ottoman empire, which for almost four centuries had tormented the nations of Europe, on this very day loses its supremacy. On the very year, month and day that Josiah Litch has predicted, the newspapers announce:
"The Ottoman empire loses its power"
THE PROPHECY VERSUS THE SKEPTICS
And Suddenly, thousands of skeptics, scoffers and unbelievers are silenced.
How did Josiah Litch pinpoint the event right to the day, two years before it happened?
Litch simply found the precise timing recorded in an ancient prophecy - and you yourself can find it in a book that has now become the world's No. 1 best seller. What book is that?
If you didn't know, it is a book that contains as many as one thousand (1,000) other prophecies of future events... That is right: one thousand prophecies. Now, as a hands-on skeptical archaeologist, I am compelled to admit that this ancient document has a flawless record of being proved true - archaeologically, scientifically, and prophetically. Whenever it is put to the test, it turns out that it's the skeptics who are proven wrong.
But here's the interesting bit what Josiah Litch discovered is possibly only the second part of a three-part prophecy and that the rest of it has begun to come true in uncanny detail even as you read this? This amazing prophecy conceivably reveals secrets of coming world events that you will surely want to know about. Because they could affect you personally.
It appears that certain events have begun in Europe, the USA and Australia right now that are set to change the world.
Beginning in around 2014 Muslims began arriving in Europe, as refugees, the only problem was that largely they were not women and children or even families but hordes of military aged men. Much of Europe has since been adversely affected by this already and there has been a backlash against it. And for a time, several million refugees remained isolated in Turkey as Turkish President Erdogan held the rest of Europe hostage by demanding billions of dollars in aid.
Failure to pay what amounts to nothing short of protection money, said Erdogan, will force him to release these hordes of people on the whole of Europe.
Following months of appeasement of Turkey's dictator Recep Erdogan, Europe has found itself surprised that as it yields to every incremental demand, Turkey simply asks for more and more.
One such example was chronicled by the media in this headline:
"Turkey demands EU hands over €3bn for refugees" It went on to report that "a row has erupted between Turkey and the EU over billions of pounds in aid for Syrian refugees, casting fresh doubt on a fragile deal to halt the flow of people towards Europe."
Erdogan's argument was that he wanted the money to be transferred over to him directly to dispense with as he pleases, while Europe insisted that UN agencies oversee that the money be spent as designated for refugee needs, instead of funding another wing for Erdogan's palace.
Of course, the only reason why Erdogan was so confident he had leverage is because Turkey was then hosting over 3 million Syrian "refugees" that he was holding back from flooding into Europe once more, potentially resulting in the most acute episode of Europe's so-called refugee crisis.
However, this potential onslaught of Europe-bound refugees was also Erdogan's biggest trump card: should Europe deny anything that Turkey wanted, he could simply open the gates leading to spiraling political chaos of the type already seen in Austria and Germany where anti-immigrant parties stormed higher in the political polls.
Further, came a warning by Burhan Kuzu, a high-ranking deputy for Turkey’s ruling AKP party and former adviser to President Erdogan, who demanded that Europe be opened visa-free for Turkish citizens. He said: "If the wrong decision is taken, we will unleash the refugees!" Among the real refugees seeking political and religious asylum, are literally millions of fighting age men with extremist views who are preparing to launch attacks on European countries. The attacks across Europe recent years are proof positive of this.
The fact that terrorist organizations have been found with caches of war grade weapons and are actively trying to compromise nuclear power plants in the region suggests that, should they effectively coordinate attacks utilizing weapons of mass destruction, be they chemical, biologicial, radiological or nuclear, the prediction of turning Europe into a total wasteland could certainly come to pass. Leading many concerned citizens to not only acquire self-defense firearms, but personal protective equipment for CBRN attacks.
We also know that a similar threat exists on the Southern border of the United States, where terrorists have already been captured attempting to cross into the U.S. Further highlighting the threat, the United States government issued a report outlining four ways that a nuclear or radiological device could be used to attack Americans on U.S. soil. That report was followed by a new policy in Texas where game wardens operating close to the southern border are being issued radiological and nuclear detection equipment along smuggling routes.
Not long ago, the president of Stratfor, political strategist and forecaster George Friedman, highlighted Turkey as one of the countries which would receive a great deal of world attention in the near future. Turkey as of 2015 had the second largest army Europe and was the fourth strongest military power in the world.
On August 24, 2016, ex-Muslim-radical Walid Shoebat announced:
"Today Major Prophecy Was Fulfilled. The Date August 24th Is Prophetically Significant for Muslims Worldwide Sparking Islam's Caliphate Empire And Is Why Turkey Today Sent A Massive Land Invasion To Syria. "What the Western media is NOT telling you is that today, August 24th, is the birthday when the Ottomans sparked their takeover of the Middle East at the Battle of Dabiq and it is today that began the land invasion of Turkey's largest intervention in Syria on that same day, Wednesday, August 24th, 2016, exactly 500 years to the day from when the Ottomans began their historic control over the Middle East and no one says anything about this.
"Today is 'Operation Euphrates Shield.'
"Coincidence? No. While the West was asleep, the tweets were going all over in Arabic asking why Erdogan chose this date. In the Middle East, this is clearly seen as the neo-Ottoman invasion since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
"Behold the Turkish tanks covering the hills entering from Turkey into Syria while Erdogan speaks to the massive Turkish crowds telling them that he is accomplishing what he has promised, that Syria, Iraq, the Balkans and the Caucasus is now within reach, a speech that no one translated into English.
"Declaring this invasion, Erdogan spoke at his palace to massive crowds, saying: "'...When we speak of Syria or the Balkans or the Caucasus, these were part of our [Ottoman] geography from 100 years ago. "I believe we will overcome all the obstacles in front of us, which will be the will of Allah... Turkey has massive power and will use it..." (http://shoebat. com/2016/08/24/ today-major-prophecy-was-fulfilled-the-date-august-24th)
The April 16, 2017 referendum gave Erdogan the green light to get started with his planned Caliphate. The Caliphate's seat of government will first be established in Istanbul (Constantinople), but it plans to swiftly move to Jerusalem as they overrun Israel and declare global jihad. This is the stated plan of the Brotherhood.
Will this part of their goal be achieved? And what really lies ahead for us? For the whole story in detail including the involvement of the other contributing parties get a copy of the the Vatican, Islam and Jerusalem.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. John 1:11
BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD ... John 1:12
Would it surprise you to learn that nearly all writings of ancient peoples worldwide tell the same story of a fall from the original paradise state, a departure from unity with the Creator? Art and literature have recorded this “Fall” as it became known and it has been present within human culture from time in memorial throughout the world.
Egypt, Babylonia, Sumeria, China, India and even the Americas and the Pacific. Indeed, among all peoples, this tragedy is present in the oldest racial memory. The loss of immortality caused by man’s disobedience to divine law was keenly felt by more than one ancient writer. (For example, the Mesopotamian Temptation Seal – now in British Museum. Also, Adapa Myth and the Gilgamesh Epic. A translation of the Adapa Myth made by E.A. Speiser is found in J.B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near East Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. Princeton, N.J., 1969, pp. 101-103.
A translation of the Gilgamesh Epic made by Speiser is found in Ancient Near East Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp. 72-79. See especially, pp. 88,90,96. Alfred Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, 4th ed. Leipzig 1930, p.99. W. H. Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, vol. 1. London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1948, p.380)
Many prayers and hymns of the ancients impressively reveal how these people clearly understood the principles of the Ten Commandments and knew quite well what was right and wrong. (Jonathan Gray, Ark of the Covenant, page 56).
Throughout the world prophecy of a coming Deliverer, or Messiah, -a “restorer”- one who will reconcile man to God, spans some 4,000 years. Over the centuries, more information is received concerning this coming person. The simple outline of the first prophecy becomes progressively more detailed as a Supreme Mind inspires different prophets in succession. The accurate recording of these prophecies is rendered in the Bible.
Each new messenger is like a painter who uses the brush to put in details — until at last the word painting is finished and the full picture of the coming Messiah stands out perfect and complete. His whole life story - including the precise time he would appear, was written down hundreds of years in advance.
In the Old Testament of the bible some 300 prophecies are recorded of this restorer of which we shall now examine several.
He is the “seed” of the woman (Genesis 3:15), and “to us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” (Isaiah 9:6) “This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord [Yahweh] our righteousness.” (Jeremiah 23:5-6) “And he will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6) “Whose goings forth have been from the days of eternity.” (Micah 5:2)
Yes, over time a progressive thread of prophecy unfolds
Beginning with Noah, in addressing his three sons who became the progenitors of the three racial branches of mankind, he references “the Lord, the God of Shem” who was ancestor of the Semites, Gen 9:6. Following on from this revelation the book of Genesis reveals in a series of far reaching prophecies how Abraham and his seed will play a significant role, which includes the formation of nations blessed by the acceptance of the Messiah.
This promise passes through a certain linage -Isaac and Jacob. (Genesis 28:13,14) Continuing on the prophecies narrow it still further, to one f Jacob’s twelve sons, the coming ONE- the Christ- will be born of the tribe of Judah. (Genesis 49:8-11). And of all the families in Judah, he will appear through the family-line of Jesse. (Isaiah 11:1,10). Jesse had at least eight sons and prophecy eliminates all of them except one — David.
The Messiah will be a descendant of King David. (Jeremiah 23:5,6; 2 Samuel chapter 7) He will be born in Bethlehem — and a particular Bethlehem at that. You see, there were two towns called Bethlehem. There was Bethlehem of Zebulon, 70 miles to the north in Galilee; but this was not where the Messiah would be born. The prophesied place was “Bethlehem Ephratah... in Judah”. (Micah 5:2) Thus eliminating all the cities in the world, except one. And what about His appearing “the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple.” (Malachi 3:1)
This prophecy has a time element to it as well as it relates to the Second Temple as the First Temple was already destroyed. It indicates that Messiah will appear BEFORE the Second Jewish Temple is destroyed and the Jews finally exiled. This, along with three similar prophecies (Genesis 49:10; Haggai 2:9; Daniel 9:25-27), required that the Messiah come while the Second Jewish Temple was still standing. The time factor was clearly spelt out.
This is of great significance when we understand that the Second Jewish Temple was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70.
After the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 586 BC, a Second Temple was constructed in Jerusalem by Zerubbabel and many sorrowed over the fact that it was inferior to Solomon’s Temple. But the prophetic compensation to those who sorrowed over that inferiority, was that the glory of the latter house should exceed the glory of the former house (Haggai 2:9), since the Messiah would come to that Second Temple (Malachi 3:1). So He had to come BEFORE the destruction of that temple — or the prophecy would fail.
Another of the timing prophecies states: “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off “cut off out of the land of the living” – Isaiah 53:8, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.” (Daniel 9:26) This is a remarkable statement! You will notice that a time sequence was specified. First, Messiah is cut off (dies). After that, the city (Jerusalem) and sanctuary (temple) is destroyed. Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed by Titus and his army in AD 70.
Another timing element is before tribe of Judah loses its judicial power “The scepter -tribal staff, shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh -the Messiah comes.” (Genesis 49:10). There was no ambiguity about this. Jewish rabbis understood that “Shiloh” - “His gift”, “the one to whom it belongs,” “wished for”, was the coming Messiah.
The Targums, or Chaldee Paraphrasis of Jerusalem, renders this prophecy “until the time when King Messiah shall come.” (E. C Ettmann, Messianic Evidences, Melbourne, Australia: Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, p.18). Onkelos (60 BC): “until Messiah comes, whose is the kingdom.” The Talmud: “Shiloh is reckoned among the names of Messiah.” The Targum Pseudo Jonathan on Gen-49: states: “How noble is the King, Messiah, who is going to rise from the house of Judah.”
You will notice that two signs were to occur soon after the arrival of the Messiah:
1. Removal of the scepter or identity of the Hebrew tribe of Judah.
2. Suppression of the judicial power (“lawgiver”).
It is important to note that right through history (even during the captivity in Babylon in the 6th century BC), the tribe of Judah never lost its “tribal staff” or “national identity”. They always possessed their own lawgivers or judges, even while in captivity. (Ezra 1:5,8) It was not until AD 11 that the Roman procurators took away the power of the Jewish Sanhedrin (ruling council), to exercise the jus gladii (the sovereign right of life and death) themselves.
This deprived the nation of Judah of its ability to pronounce capital sentences. (Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews. New York: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1900, Book 17, Chap. 13, 1-5) The Jewish Talmud itself admits that this occurred. (Talmud, Jerusalem, Sanhedrin, fol. 24, recto.)
Rabbi Rachmon says: When the members of the Sanhedrin found themselves deprived of their right over life and death, a general consternation took possession of them; they covered their heads with ashes, and their bodies with sackcloth, exclaiming: ‘Woe unto us, for the scepter has departed from Judah, and the Messiah has not come! -M. M. LeMann, Jesus Before the Sanhedrin. Trans. By Julius Magath. Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886, pp. 28-30)
And to top it off, there were other Old Testament prophecies that identified not just the year, but the precise month, day and hour in history when that event would occur.
Here follows Daniel’s Seventy weeks prophecy. Seventy weeks are determined…[for the coming of the Messiah, the Promised One]. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the decree to restore and build Jerusalem UNTO MESSIAH THE PRINCE shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
And after the sixty-two-week period shall Messiah be killed, not for himself [but for others]: after that the people of a coming prince shall destroy Jerusalem and the temple; and at the end of the war, its desolation shall come like a flood.
For one week, the Messiah shall confirm with many God’s promise of rescue for man: and half way through the week he shall bring the sacrificial system to an end, and because of its abuse he shall destroy its temple, until the end of time, when the judgment which is decided shall be inflicted upon the desolating power. (Daniel 9:24-27)
Biblical scholars teach that “70 weeks” = 490 years, including numerous Jewish scholars, that are clear on the fact that this prophecy is speaking of “weeks of years” in which every day of the prophetic week means a year. This is in harmony with the bible’s own explanation of prophetic time. The Hebrew for “seventy weeks” literally means “70 sevens”. This is recognised by scholars to mean 70 sets of 7 years, a total of 490 years - each day representing a year.
The year-for-a-day principle appears in the Bible as a divinely established identity in prophetic symbolism: “I have appointed thee each day for a year.” (Ezekiel 4:4-6; Numbers 14:34)
On “seventy weeks” (70 x 7 years), Jewish commentator J.J. Slotki states: “The cryptic phraseology may have been suggested by the seven-year cycle of Lev. xxv. The expression ‘week of years’ occurs in the Mishnah (Sanh. v.i).” (J.J. Slotki, Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, p.77a).
One could compare the expression “weeks of years” with “seven sabbaths of years..., seven times seven years;... forty and nine years” in the book of Leviticus. (Leviticus 25:8)
Other Jewish scholars concur on “he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week” (Daniel 9:27), Midrash Rabbah reads: “‘Week’ represents a period of seven years.” (Lamentations, Soncino ed., p.65, note 3) and on this same reference (v.27), the Talmud says: “‘One week’ in Dan. ix means a week of years.” (Yoma 54at Soncino ed., p.254, note 6)
Regarding the “seventy weeks are determined” (v.24), the Talmud states it to be “490, i.e. seventy weeks of years”. (Nazir 32b, Soncino ed., p.118, note 6). Isaac Lesser refers to “Ancient Jewish writers”, Rashi and other commentators as recognizing “year-weeks”. (Isaac Leeser, The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, 1853, on Daniel 9:24,25; p.1243, notes 47,48)
Following is the outline of the prophecy that was to be fulfilled during the period of “seventy weeks”. Daniel 9:24 says Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
This prophecy unveiled the future history of Judah and Israel including the precise time of Messiah’s appearance. When examining this we notice a clear structure in which each verse deals firstly with Messiah, then with Jerusalem.
Dan 9:25 , At the end of 7 + 62 weeks Messiah will appear and Jerusalem will be rebuilt, but under. conditions of distress.
Dan 9:26, After the 7 + 62 weeks Messiah will die violently ( His substitutional death for mankind, Isaiah 53) and a desolator prince (Titus) will destroy Jerusalem again.
Dan 9:27, During the 70th week Messiah will keep covenant with many people and in the midst (middle) of that week He will cause sacrifices to cease. By His sacrifice Messiah would make the temple desolate and desolations are determined on the desolate ( those who rejected Messiah) until the consummation – the full restoration of the fall.
The Mesiah would accomplish this and when Jesus appeared He stated in mark 1:15 … The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. But how would one determine the start of the prophetic count to realize that Jesus was telling everyone I am here as per what the scriptures says.
Well we need to revisit Daniel 9:25 and then determine our start circumstances. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the [decree; commandment] to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. (Daniel 9:25) It begins from the decree to restore and build Jerusalem.
So, when did this take place? The Bible itself tells us: it was in the seventh year of the reign of the Persian king Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:1,7,8), when he issued his first “decree” (vv. 11-26) to rebuild the ruined city of Jerusalem.
Leading up to this decree were two others - those of Cyrus and Darius - which related only to the building of the ruined temple. In 536 BC, Cyrus allowed the Jewish exiles in Babylon to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. (2 Chronicles 36:22-23).
In 520 BC, Darius reaffirmed and expedited Cyrus’ decree concerning the temple. And in February, 515 BC, the temple was dedicated. (Ezra.6:13-18. Bright, A History of Israel p.372)
It took the three decrees - of Cyrus, Darius and of Artaxerxes I - to implement the “commandment” of God, as Ezra terms it. Ezra 6:14.
And it was this third decree, “in the seventh year of Artaxerxes” in 457 BC, that gave Jerusalem its legal rebirth, restoring full autonomy in legal judgments, including the death penalty. Ezra 7:7,24-26. This made possible the restoration of Jerusalem to capital city status - necessitating its rebuilding as a visible administrative center. Corresponding with the prophecy to “restore and rebuild Jerusalem” as referenced in Daniel 9:25, that should be used as the most accurate date from which to begin the 490-year count to the Messiah.
In summary, Daniel defined the prophecy. Ezra recorded the commencement date and then for 400 years there was silence. While Judah and others waited, the countdown began. There is no date in Bible history of which one can be more certain and certainly no doubt that this prophecy existed. It was translated into a Greek version by seventy Jewish scholars in Alexandria between 283 and 180 BC, and circulated throughout the Greek-speaking world.
Now the wording of the prophecy that “from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, UNTO MESSIAH THE PRINCE, SHALL BE 7 WEEKS + 62 WEEKS”, amounting to 69 weeks or 483 years, provides us with a specific time for the more important event — the appearance of the Messiah. And so when we calculate 483 years from the “commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem”, we get the very year when Messiah would appear.
Therefor when we add 483 years to 437 BC we arrive at 27 AD. And true to the prophecy Luke records how Jesus enters the temple and proclaims -The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Luk 4:18-21
But what year? well Luke supplies that as well, Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Luke 3:1-4
Luke supplies historical facts, confirming the date by referencing Tiberius Ceasars reign. There is abundant evidence on the Caesars of Rome and so we can identify the fifteenth year of Tiberius’ reign as 27 AD. To be precise Tiberius’ fifteenth year began in September or October, 27 AD
Concerning the veracity of Luke we shall consult F. F. Bruce, of the University of Manchester, who offers this tribute to his historical accuracy.
A man whose accuracy can be demonstrated in matters where we are able to test it is likely to be accurate even where the means for testing him are not available. Accuracy is a habit of mind, and we know from happy (or unhappy) experience that some people are habitually accurate just as others can be depended upon to be inaccurate. Luke’s record entitles him to be regarded as a writer of habitual accuracy. (F.F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents. Are They Reliable? London: Inter Varsity Press, 1974, p. 90. Emphasis supplied)
In addition, Clark Pinnock, Professor of Interpretations at McMasters University, Toronto, concurs, with this comment. There exists no document from the ancient world witnessed by so excellent a set of textual and historical testimonies, and offering so superb an array of historical data on which the intelligent decision may be made. An honest (person) cannot dismiss a source of this kind. (McDowell, Josh The Resurrection Factor. San Bernadino Ca: Here’s Life Publishers, Inc., 1981, p. .9)
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A Judgement from God
THE SUMMARY OF A DAMAGED PLANET
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Gen 7:1
When their survival vessel ran aground on the mountains of Turkey, the occupants would have recoiled in horror from the desolation that met their gaze. The world of almost perfect beauty which they had known was no more. Stones, ledges and jagged rocks covered the ground. There was virtually no vegetation. Hills had disappeared without trace; plains had given way to broken mountain ranges. Gashed and torn, the surface was desolate. All the luxuriant forests were gone. Green meadows and flowering trees were washed away or buried. Here and there clumps of growth had begun to re-establish, but the rich antediluvian world was largely plowed under, out of sight. The soil that remained was leached and relatively infertile. It would take centuries to rebuild enough soil to carpet large areas. Later exploration would confirm new, harsh climatic zones.
POST-FLOOD EROSION
Before plant cover would become re-established, erosion of unbelievable magnitude would occur on the planet. As the waters of the global Flood rushed off the continental areas to fill the newly expanded sea basins, violent land movements resulted in massive buckling, folding and tilting of the soft, newly-laid Flood strata. The enormous run-off of water rapidly eroded great gorges in the soft, exposed sediment. With the new temperature differentials, violent winds beyond anything known today were whipped up. The soft land suffered incredible erosion during those weeks of continuing, wind-driven waves, while the Flood was abating. Some new mountains with their soft strata, were reduced to mere hogbacks within weeks.
THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATION
Ararat, in eastern Turkey, was the stepping-stone between the former world and the new, post-Flood world. Here world civilisation was replanted. Here are found the earliest archaeological sites. And these show advanced technological knowledge.
RAPID MIGRATION
There is evidence that both human and animal migrations to the ends of the earth were undertaken rapidly. Two early dispersions of people across the world have been identified and recorded:
(a) from the Ararat region of Turkey: The dispersed population spoke one global language. Included among them were those who re-mapped the post-Flood world and who re calculated the calendar.
(b) from the Babel region of Turkey: These spoke many different languages and carried with them the tradition of a tower where their language had become suddenly divided. They migrated with much original knowledge, which enabled the new civilisations of Egypt, Sumeria and Indus Valley to spring up suddenly “out of nowhere”.
HIGH CIVILISATIONS AND PRIMITIVES
Among these family groups which dispersed over the earth, some developed into prosperous nations. Others, edged out more and more to the fringes, became more primitive through loss of availability of technology. Broken communication lanes were later restored through the world trading explorations of the Phoenicians -( More on them to be discovered in our book on Israel) and others. While many societies lost all trace and memory of their beginnings, and thus resorted to a mythical history, there were others who kept accurate and independent records of their descent from Noah and his three sons.
RAPID RACIAL VARIATIONS
Genetic evidence shows that all races, with their different features, could have descended in a very brief time from one family. There has been no evolution of genes that did not previously exist. All that has occurred is the recombination and degeneration of pre-existing genetic information. And the differences did not take countless ages to produce. This is likewise true of animal species variation.
THE ICE AGE
In the aftermath of the Deluge, continuing volcanic activity, warm oceans and massive evaporation resulted in thickening clouds of dust, which blocked out the sun’s heat. Atmospheric temperature dropped. Copious and rapid condensation of the vapours, instead of falling as rain, descended as snow. Large quantities of stranded water filled all continental areas. Volcanic activity evaporated enormous quantities of water into steam clouds. It also provided dust, which blocked solar heat and lowered temperatures. The warm oceans and cold air caused heavy precipitation of snow and ice. Ice rapidly piled up on the land. This brought on the “Ice Age”. The evidence points to just one Ice Age, which lasted for several centuries.
GEOLOGICAL READJUSTMENTS
Many hundreds of years would be required for the planet to settle down to relatively stable conditions following the Deluge. The new layers of rock and mountain, as well as rearranged land and sea, produced tensions. These needed to find release and adjustment. The result was continuing earthquakes and volcanic lava flows. There were some massive local catastrophes. One short, violent burst of tectonic activity occurred soon after the Ice Age had begun. It was this violent upheaval that finally wrenched the continents apart and triggered sudden, violent mountain raising. The splitting of the continental mass also isolated various groups who had already migrated into the extremities. In the post-Flood adjustments, changes in ocean levels, volcanism, earthquake activity, weather, the earth’s wobble, and the human life span, were at first exponentially great. All of these eventually settled down to a more stable condition.
INLAND WATERS DRY OUT
At the termination of the Deluge, large inland bodies of water lay trapped as inland areas. In time, vegetation took hold and people moved in. Cities sprang up in these well watered areas. But as these huge “Flood puddles” evaporated and the climate dried out, many of these regions became creeping deserts. This trend continues today. Civilisations also once thrived in areas that later reverted to jungle. For 4,000 years, the world’s sea level has been inching up. This has been caused by (a) an influx of water into the sea from the melting of the post-Flood ice; and (b) the gradual evaporation or outflow of water from post-Flood basins to the sea.
DATING THE GREAT FLOOD
There are ten “clocks” all of which indicate to us that something very big happened to this planet just over 4,000 years ago – and from which an adjustment process has been going on ever since. These are, Recovery of the earth’s axis, Glacier growth and retreat , the age of inland lakes, River delta formation, the age of waterfalls , Coral reef growth, the age of oldest trees , the age of oldest desert , Written human records and Population increase.
BIBLICAL PROPHECIES
Ancient prophecies warn that, as the Great Flood was a divine judgment on a world gone mad, so a second and final cleansing of Planet Earth is imminent, this time by fire. There will emerge a renewed planet in many respects similar to the original paradise world that mankind spoiled. But this one will last forever - And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Rev 21:3
Noah's Ark Found! How absurd, what nonsense!
SO THE SKEPTICS CLAIM BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ABUNDANT EVIDENCE
How it all began
The Noah's Ark site became prominent in the late 1950s when high altitude photography revealed a boat shaped object in the mountains of Ararat. Although dismissed by some, on the 11th September 1959, while studying around 10000 aerial photographs, Captain Ilhan Durupinar from the Turkish army, noticed the boat shaped object. Believing that the shape of the object could not have been formed by nature, and after calculating the length and the width, he concluded that the boat shape was possibly the remains of Noah's ark.
The following year an expedition was sent into the Ararat Mountains , and the boat shaped object which had been identified in the aerial photograph was located. The report of their findings was later published in Life Magazine on the 5th September 1960. Having read the Life Magazine article in 1960, Ronald E. Wyatt, an anesthetist from Tennessee, believed that the site required further investigation. In 1977, Ron Wyatt began what become several trips to the site conducting various experiments to determine what it was. The results were spectacular, using ground penetrating radar, metal detectors and core drilling a massive man made structure was revealed at this remote site over 6000 ft high in the mountains of Ararat.
Ron had discovered several anomalies proving it was not a naturel feature. And laboratory testing confirmed this. A wood type specimen resembling deck timber contained organic carbon, indicating that the object was not made of rock, but was once composed of living material consistent with petrified wood and was by further investigation determined to be laminated wood. A metal object shaped like a large rivet was surrounded by what appeared to be an equally large metal washer. It was an Alloy found to be composed of a complex alloy of metals, including Aluminum and Titanium metals not indigenous to the area. Neither Aluminum nor Titanium are found in their pure states in nature, and both these metals can only be produced by a complicated refining processes. Also, such Alloys have not been able to be produced until recent times. In addition, fossilized animal dung and antlers were extracted from inside the boat shaped object. And massive drogue stones ( stabilizers) were found all over the region.
Needless to say the Turkish government became interested in these findings and following inspections by Archaeologist and other scientists a commission was convened to consider the evidence. The official conclusion was that the site did contain the remains of Noah's Ark. Further investigation into the whole region revealed a cache of evidence that linked post flood settlements to the site. The Turkish Government established an visitors center beside the site and declared it a national park inviting Ron to the dedication.
Further investigations.
In late 2014, the Turkish government granted permission to John Larsen from New Zealand, to scan the buried remains of this boat shaped object, using the latest deep penetration Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) ground imaging technique. The entire work of scanning the Ark took nearly three weeks.
Ten longitudinal scans were accomplished, where each scan covered the entire length of the ship. Then three additional cross section scans were performed which included the ground around the ship. All of the data was then compiled into a 3d file and combined with the topographic survey results which John Larsen processed using the latest EarthImager 3d software.
Resistivity imaging is a technique that was developed during the 1920's, for deep oil and mineral exploration. The data obtained from a resistivity scan contains hundreds of individual measurements of the resistance of the subsurface ground material at different positions and depths, without the need for excavation. Different materials have different electrical properties. Any variations in the composition of the material beneath the ground, can be identified by the resistivity of each of the materials and the change in resistivity at the boundaries between two different materials. The results are then displayed using a specific colour for each level of resistivity on the images that are produced. These tests produced an image of the Ark showing the variation in resistivity throughout the ship and the ground around it.
The first image penetrated 34.8 metres below the ground, which is well beyond the 8 metre range of the radar scans. This image verified that the boat shaped outline of the hull that is seen above the ground, also continued beneath the ground and had the shape of a gigantic ship. When the hull shape is viewed in three dimensions, the resistivity images show that the front section which lies beneath the ground, resembles the form of a ship which has the shape of a deep hull design.
THE THREE INTERNAL DECKS
The Bible tells us that God commanded Noah to build three stories within the Ark.
“WITH LOWER, SECOND, AND THIRD STORIES SHALT THOU MAKE IT.” (GEN 6:16).
And sure enough the resistivity scans revealed three distinct flat surfaces that have the appearance of internal deck floors. These deck floors have a different level of resistivity compared to the infilling material that lies between the decks. This indicates that the material that composes each of the deck floors is different to the material that occupies the space between each deck. The resistivity scans show that the deck floors extend across the entire width of the ship, and are orientated parallel to each other.
The uppermost deck surface is seen as a layer of material with a thickness of approximately 3.2 metres, which equals exactly 6 cubits in the ancient measurement system. The middle layer measures 4.7 metres in thickness, (9 cubits), while the third and lowest flat surface can be seen positioned at the bottom of the inside surface of the hull shape.
At the rear end of the middle deck, a wall can be seen positioned at 90 degrees to the deck floor. A 3d view of the front of the Ark with the outer hull material made transparent, shows part of the upper deck floor with the middle deck space beneath it.
THE BIBLICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ARK -THE LENGTH OF THIS SHIP IS 300 CUBITS
The ancient cubit measurement which Noah would have used in constructing the Ark, measured 20.6 inches (0.522 metres). This was the standard unit of measurement for both the civilizations of Egypt and Chaldea, which were established by the descendants of Noah after the flood.
God commanded Noah to construct the Ark with specific dimensions which are recorded in Genesis 6:15.
“AND THIS IS THE FASHION WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE IT OF: THE LENGTH OF THE ARK SHALL BE THREE HUNDRED CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF IT FIFTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT OF IT THIRTY CUBITS.” (GEN 6.15).
The Biblical description of the size of the Ark does not say whether these measurements are to be understood as either the internal or external dimensions. However the internal cargo capacity was the most essential measurement from a construction perspective, which Noah required. The internal length of this ship when measured with a tape measure, and then with a Leica laser surveying instrument was found to be exactly 300 cubits.
THE WIDTH OF THIS SHIP IS 50 CUBITS
The structure was at some time impaled on a large rock and this rock has penetrated the right side of the ship, the hull has become distorted and the right side has bulged outwards. This makes the present shape of the ship appear to be wider than it really is. The resistivity scan image across the widest section of the ship, shows the damaged and broken rib structure on the right side. The subsurface resistivity images of the central area of the ship identify that the right side of the hull has broken away from the main section of the ship and moved outwards forming the bulge.
The intact section of the hull which includes the left side and centre of the vessel, can be seen here to be considerably more resistive than the separated section of the right side. This would be expected in a timber ship that has become damaged, as it would almost certainly have cracked the hulls structure around the impact zone, making it more permeable to water and increasing its conductivity.
A reconstructed view of the resistivity image, shows the broken section of the hull on the right side, moved back into its original position, and joined onto the main section of the hull. The internal width of the ship in this reconstructed image can be seen to be in the order of 50 cubits, (26.1 metres)
THE HEIGHT OF THIS SHIP IS 30 CUBITS
If the length (300 cubits), and width (50 cubits), are the internal dimensions of the Ark, then the measurement of its height should be found to be equal the vertical internal measurements of the heights of each of the three decks combined.
The heights of each of the 3 deck spaces from the floor to the ceiling are:
UPPER DECK = 3.2 METRES (6 CUBITS).
MIDDLE DECK = 4.7 METRES (9 CUBITS).
BOTTOM DECK = 7.8 METRES (15 CUBITS).
THE TOTAL HEIGHT = 3.2+4.7+7.8 =15.7 METRES = 30 CUBITS
Each of the dimensions of the length, width and the three individual deck space heights, as well as the thickness of each of the deck floors, equate to an exact whole number of cubits, with no fractions of a cubit. This is further evidence that this ship is man-made and constructed at a time when the cubit measurement was used.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIMBER SHIP OF THIS SIZE EVER BUILT DURING THE EARTH'S HISTORY, EXCEPT THE ARK THAT GOD COMMANDED NOAH TO MAKE.
THE CENTRAL STAIRWAY
A large area of high resistivity exists near the centre of the ship, which is approximately 40 metres in length. When Ron Wyatt scanned this area with the Ground Penetrating Radar, he found what he believed was a central corridor in this location which he calculated was 128 feet long (39 metres). The radar images showed that this area did not have any wall structure, which is confirmed by these resistivity images.
The bottom edge which forms the floor of this area of high resistivity, slopes downwards on a 35 degree angle relative to the decks of the ship. The shape of this area is consistent with a central stairway which connects the upper, middle and bottom decks. The high level of resistivity indicates that this area could be an open cavity inside the ship. Halfway down this stairway shaped area, at the same level as the floor of the middle deck, the angle of this stairway area flattens out to the same angle as the middle deck floor. This forms what appears to be a horizontal landing. The angle of the stairway shaped area’s floor then resumes, and descends down towards the floor of the bottom deck. There are no other structures or walls within the stairway shaped area, and its orientation is aligned perfectly with the lengthwise direction of the ship.
THE INTERNAL CAVITIES
In addition to the stairway shaped cavity, the resistivity images identity that other smaller room sized areas of high resistivity exist within the ship, which could be smaller open cavities. The red areas on the image below, show these areas of high resistivity, with the large central stairway area in the centre.
THE RIB STRUCTURE OF THE ARK.
At the rear (stern) of the ship, there is material that has the shape of a massive rib, which is attached to the central keelson. On the composite resistivity image below, which is superimposed onto a photograph of the Ark, the rib shaped material and keelson are both displayed as a blue colour. A contour map of the resistivity image, shows that the contour lines pack tightly around the boundary of the rib shape. This indicates that a very sudden change in material properties exists at this boundary between the rib shape material, and the material that is attached to the outside edge of the rib.
When a 3d view of the resistivity image of the rib shaped material, is combined with a photograph of the ship that is taken from the same angle, the position of the rib at the back of the ship can be seen, as well as another rib further towards the middle of the ship. The massive size of the rib shaped material which surrounds the inner hull structure, and the central keelson, are both proportional with the overall size of the ship. Where the rib shaped structure remains in its original position within the areas of the hull that are still intact, the rib shaped material is seen to be symmetrical on both sides of the vessel.
The inner and outer surfaces of the rib shaped material have a semi-circular profile. The resistivity of this material increases towards the inside edge of the rib, which is consistent with a material such as timber that has a varying degree of either moisture, or petrification within it. Petrification is the process of mineral replacement of the original material, with the minerals from the surrounding mud that it is embedded in. The surface of the material which is exposed to the petrifying process will naturally begin to petrify first. However the parts of the timber that are more protected, remain in their original form for longer.
The different levels of mineral replacement throughout the material is just one possibility for the variation that is seen in the electrical resistivity of the material, which does not seem to be affected by depth.
THE MATERIAL OF THE HULL SHAPE IS DIFFERENT TO THE ROCK
The resistivity images show that the hull of this ship is sitting on top of an object which has a different electrical resistivity than the material of the hull. This indicates that this object is made of a different type of material than the hull shape. This object has the appearance of a rock upon which this ship has become impaled.
THE SURFACE ROCK IS NOT PART OF THE HULL SHAPE
The loose surface rock that is seen lying on top of this ship, has a sharp and very distinct boundary all around it. The surface rock is very dry and cracked, which makes it exhibit a very high level of resistivity. The distinct boundary around the surface rock can be seen on the contour resistivity image below, where the contour lines of the resistivity pack tightly around the area where the loose surface rock is located. This sudden change in resistivity also shows that the hull shape of the Ark is made of a material that is very different from the exposed rock. The surface rock has the appearance of being a foreign body of material that has fallen on top of the hull shape at the point of impact where the hull is damaged.
SUMMARY
The results of the resistivity scans found that this object has the shape of an immense ship buried beneath the ground. The material composing the hull of this ship has a completely different resistivity value compared to what appears to be the rock beneath it. Within this object are three flat layers which have the appearance of decks, and the internal dimensions of the length, width and height of this ship were found to be identical to the dimensions found in the Bible, which describe Noah’s Ark.
The three dimensional shape of this object and the presence of petrified timber and metal rivets within the hull, are not features that can be explained by natural rock erosion. Each of these pieces of evidence prove that this object is a man-made structure of ancient origin.
In the history of the earth there is only one ship which has ever been constructed with all of these features:
NOAH’S ARK
Indeed the evidence is overwhelming.
A Super civilization that vanished so completely
MOST PHYSICAL REMAINS WERE WIPED OUT
Numerous ancient cities now lie below ground level; many are covered by desert sands or swallowed by dense jungle; while others still may lie intact under the mile-deep ice of Antarctica. On the other hand, exposed remains can disappear so fast. Take, for example, the 4,000-year-old ruins of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia. As recently as the sixteenth century there still stood immense walls with massive rivets of silver in the stonework as well as lifelike statues of men and women in a thousand animated poses. Even until last century, travellers could admire and sketch imposing colonnades. Of these there is no trace today. The Spaniards and more recently the Bolivian government plundered them for building materials. Again, many scale replicas of ancient apparatuses probably perished when the Spanish conquistadors melted down all the gold artifacts they could find in Central and South America. The scale of destruction over the centuries will never be known. Despite this we are left with remains - although scanty at times, are still sufficient to conclude that they are from a world that could possibly be partly pre flood and partly post flood.
MOST ANCIENT RECORDS HAVE ALSO BEEN DESTROYED
The destruction of printed records has been much greater than was originally thought. The great library of Alexandria once contained one million volumes in which the entire science, philosophy and mysteries of the ancient world were recorded (including a complete catalogue of authors in 120 volumes, with a brief biography of each author). In a single act of vandalism, Julius Caesar destroyed 700,000 priceless scrolls. In the seventh century, the Arabs completed the wipeout. Do you know how they did it? They used the books as a fuel supply to heat the city’s 400 public baths for six months.
Totally destroyed also were the papyri of the library of Ptah in Memphis. Carthage, with a library of 500,000 volumes, was razed in a seventeen-day fire by the Romans in 146 B.C. The library of Pergamos in Asia Minor (with 200,000 volumes) likewise perished. When the famous collection of Pisistratus in Athens was wiped out (in the sixth century). surprisingly Homer’s writings escaped. In the eighth century, Leo Isaurus burned 300,000 books in Constantinople. In China, Emperor Tam Shi Hwang-ti issued an edict (213 B.C.) to destroy innumerable books. Thousands of Druidic scrolls in Autun, France, on philosophy, medicine, astronomy and other sciences, were obliterated by Julius Caesar. Not one survived.
Much classical literature was systematically destroyed by the papal Inquisition. Spanish conquerors searched out and destroyed the entire Mayan literature (except for four documents now in European museums). It was related that Mayan scholars screamed in agony as they saw their life’s purpose go up in flames. Some committed suicide. The Council of Lima (1583) decreed the burning of the knotted cords (“quipas”) on which the Incas had recorded their history and that of their predecessors. What a story of carnage, in which the greatest depositories of knowledge from the ancient world are lost forever! (Yet somehow the Indian books escaped.)
Did you know that even of the Greek and Roman literature, less than 1 percent has come down to us? Is it any wonder we are ignorant of our early heritage? I agree with Andrew Tomas that “we have to depend on disconnected fragments, casual passages and meagre accounts. Our distant past is a vacuum filled at random with tablets, parchments, statues, paintings and various artifacts. The history of science would appear totally different were the book collection of Alexandria intact today.”
EVEN WHERE ARTEFACTS ARE NOT LOST, MUCH REMAINS A MYSTERY
Undeciphered still are writings at Easter Island, tablets at Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan, and Mayan scripts. Some finds will remain unsolved forever. There are no inscriptions awaiting us at Tiahuanaco or Machu Picchu. Then there are many museum relics, whose significance may have eluded us. A methodical reexamination of pieces labelled “art objects,” “cult objects” and “unidentified objects” would yield much new data. So would a systematic exploration of museum vaults. It is a well-known fact that museums are in the habit of “burying” objects that do not coincide with current theories, or that are not beautiful to look at.
The vaults of the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Prehistory of Saint Germain-en-Laye are full of crates of incomprehensible objects that nobody is studying. Could it be that many objects we have discovered had a purpose that we do not yet understand? The ancients may have achieved results similar to ours by quite different processes. (For instance, look at what happened to German technology. It diverged tremendously from that of other countries in just twelve years, from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was progressively isolated from the rest of the world.)
Then again, is it possible that some of the antedeluvian artifacts we have found cannot yet be identified, simply because they are ahead of our technology? A point to remember. As any technology advances, its methods and equipment do not become more complex; they become simplified. (Take, for example, printed circuits, silicon chips.) Such equipment may not be recognizable to a civilization of inferior knowledge. The point is we may be looking at objects—quite exciting objects— without recognizing them. Who would have expected that items in Baghdad Museum, long labelled as “ritual objects,” would prove to be components of batteries? Do you see what I mean?
OTHER RELICS STILL AWAIT DISCOVERY
Here is a tantalizing thought. Some authentic and incredibly ancient documents are known to be safely locked away. We may never see them. These forbidden treasures are known to be concealed in four places:
1. Catacombs beneath the Potala in Llasa, Tibet
2. Vaults in the Vatican Library, to which even the pope does not have access
3. Morocco, where Moslem leaders are fiercely opposed to making them public
4. A secret place known to a few initiated rabbis (believed to be in Spain) But this is not all.
There must be numerous lost cities undiscovered. Hold it I hear you say. That’s overdoing things, isn’t it? An occasional ruin, maybe, but numerous lost cities? There aren’t any unknown areas in this day and age!
On the contrary, there are many totally unexplored areas left about. Quite a lot of things occur in out-of-the-way corners of the world—and some not so out-of-the-way—that most persons never hear of. Still not explored from the ground are immense expanses of the interior of Central and South America, New Guinea, Asia and Australia.
Although Europeans have lived and worked in India for some centuries, building bridges, railways and modern cities, the jungles have scarcely been investigated. There are remote villages that have never seen a white man. In the trackless Central Australian desert, a structure from an unknown civilization was discovered when vehicles from a nearby atomic test site drove into it purely by accident.
Much still awaits us in desert, jungle and ocean. The largest unexplored jungle area in the world is the Amazon Basin. This region is so little known that a river tributary 200 miles long was only recently discovered—and then only by satellite. The Amazon system comprises 50,000 miles of navigable “trunk rivers” and an estimated 16,000 tributaries. The jungle on each side of the rivers is almost totally impenetrable, at least for a European. I know of settlers who have lived on riverbank clearings for forty years and never ventured more than a mile back into the jungle. The Amazon contains some of the most solid jungles and hostile environments to be found anywhere.
Surprisingly, this now mysterious region was once the center of a very intense and highly active population. Large cities flourished here, with high volume commercial traffic to the Andes. Despite satellite technology, we face almost insurmountable problems in locating any remains. A pilot over the Amazon may spy towers, villages or ruins, pinpoint them and report them. A few days later, someone setting out to verify the data will find they have already vanished—swallowed again by the jungle since that forest fire or whim of weather that exposed them. Karl Brugger mentions that the “Transamazonica spur of the road between Manaus and Barcellos on the lower Rio Negro, built in 1971, was overgrown by tropical vegetation within a year.
The technicians even had difficulties locating the approximate direction of the road. It is not surprising therefore that there are no more signs of ‘white cities.’” Again, there are vast stretches where the fog never lifts, and in others it doesn’t clear until late afternoon. There is an area in Eastern Ecuador from which natives have been carrying out thousands of artifacts belonging to what they describe as giant pyramids and immense deserted cities. But don’t get carried away. This is a forbidden region; local Indians still massacre inquisitive outsiders.
Intruders in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil can expect a similar welcome. Yes, believe it! Documented accounts are numerous. Once an entire patrol of 1,400 vanished in the jungle without trace. This trackless, unexplored “green hell” swallows visitors. The ruins clasp their secret. Think of it. Five thousand years ago (when our forefathers were supposed to be existing in caves or crude settlements) a highly advanced culture reached over the whole globe—from Siberia to Antarctica, from Greenland to Africa.
This super world vanished so completely we thought it never existed. It is not unlikely a whole empire could disappear like this. The more advanced the culture, the more easily it could vanish without a trace. If it were so advanced, then its powers of destruction must also have been enormous. The wonder is that despite wholesale obliteration of evidence, many thousands of pieces do survive—written records, oral traditions and physical remains.
In the event of a post flood total catastrophe, the survivors would be driven to the countryside, to live primitively. They might, for a time, be able to salvage and use certain elements of their civilized technology. Eventually the last machine would break down, with nobody remembering how to repair it. The transistors, toasters and x-ray machines, though revered, would be useless. To the grandchildren and their descendants they would become legends. The “magic mirror” that could see events far away; the metal bird that could fly above the clouds; the room that could move up and down inside big houses—these would become “magical” myths of a people whose survival instinct would direct them back into the rapidly encroaching forests. Archaeologists 4,000 years later could claim that twentieth century man was not yet familiar with iron. (If they found cassettes with tapes, these would be a meaningless puzzle to them.) What do you think of that? Texts speaking of gigantic cities with houses several hundred feet high would be classed as myths. If you are beginning to see the picture and would to discover much more evidence of this lost super world get a copy of the following.
Solomon's Wisdom and Riches
FACT OR FICTION -startling evidence that should silence doubt
Voyages to the New World at around the time of King Solomon of Israel now seem more likely than not. Some twelve years’ research for the book Dead Men’s Secrets finally convinced me that these colonists of a forgotten age were indeed part of a great network of ancient civilizations that once maintained a flourishing trade between Europe, Asia, and the Americas, some 3,000 years ago.
I was surprised to discover that Harvard professor Dr. Barry Fell, from his own research as one of the world’s foremost epigraphers, had reached the same conclusion. He considered the ancient visitors to North America were probably not explorers, but rather merchants, trading with well-established fur trappers and very likely also mining precious metals on those sites where ancient workings have been discovered.
Fell states:
Because of the depth of ignorance into which Europe fell during the Dark Ages, at times we are apt to forget how advanced were the ideas of the ancients, and how much they knew about the earth and about astronomy and navigation. (Barry Fell, America BC: Ancient Settlers in the New World. London: Wildwood House Ltd, 1978, p. 88) Fell is also convinced that "America shares a history with the Old World, and ancient Americans must have been well acquainted with much of that history as it took place."
Between 1850 and 1910, travellers in the Amazon region and other parts of Brazil were reporting the finding of old inscriptions on rock faces. Former rubber tapper Bernardo da Silva Ramos, in a now rare book in Portuguese, has published 1,500 reproductions from such rock carvings. They are all covered over with the letters of the Phoenician alphabet. Phoenicia, is the Greek term applied to the Eastern Mediterranean, Biblically this was home to the Alliance between King David and Hiram of Tyre. Often it is erroneously applied to only Tyre and Sidon. This friendship and Alliance extended into Soloman’s reign and is well documented in scripture. Commonly artifacts that are discovered that relate to this alliance are called Phoenician. We shall use this term also.
One by one competent scholars who hold responsible positions in universities and museums are now coming forward with confirmations of the decipherments. We know that Hiram I, king of Tyre, shared a friendship with Israel’s King David, and with his son Solomon. There was also a religious sympathy. These early Phoenicians (Biblically Tyre and Sidon) contrary to the now current notions of popular writers — were monotheists. As a result of a commercial treaty, Hiram assisted in the erection of Solomon’s Temple and Israel granted Tyre the two ports of Eilat and Ezion-geber on the Gulf of Aqaba. There is mounting evidence showing that these ships contained both Phoenicians –( Tyrians and Sidonians) and Israelites. As well as other crew members from the ancient world.
So where was this legendary Ophir? Before pursuing that further, I shall share with you some information which is both unexpected and startling. From Ethiopia to India to Mexico to South America, we find pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that one by one fit together to form a picture consistent with the Bible account of the greatness of King Solomon of Israel. In these widely scattered regions we discover local people independently speaking of the greatness of this man Solomon (Samon) and of a great temple.
1. India: In Srinagar, India, is a mountain called Tahkti Suleiman (“Solomon’s Mountain”). Think about that for a moment. Is it not strange that a mountain in far away India should be named Solomon’s Mountain – after a Hebrew king? Except that an ancient Moslem tradition declares that King Solomon came there and arranged for the construction of the temple on the summit. It also speaks of the high technology that Solomon used. Indeed, Solomon’s fame reached to India.
2. Ethiopia: The Bible recounts the visit to King Solomon by the queen of Sheba. And did you know that an ancient Ethiopian epic has been discovered, the Kebra Nagast (from about 850 BC), which tells that very same story from the other side? But it goes further. It records that King Solomon lavished on a visiting Ethiopian queen enormous riches and gifts. Here is evidence that Solomon’s fame reached to Ethiopia. May I ask you this question: Why would we find two different reports, or claims if you wish –FROM TWO DIFFERENT CONTINENTS - one from Africa, the other from Asia, concerning Solomon of Israel and flying machines? Doesn’t that make you wonder? But there is more…
3. Mexico: Votan, historian of the Maya, living around the time of King Solomon, recorded his visit to a magnificent temple being built. If one believes the biblical record, the splendour of Solomon’s Temple would defy comprehension. Nowhere on the face of this planet did a structure of such size and beauty command the awe of man.
The Bible states that visitors from many lands would travel great distances just to set eyes on this Temple, never to be disappointed. And now, from the other side of the world, we have the independent record of Votan, the first historian of the Maya, who lived around 1000 63 BC. Votan had come originally from the Phoenician city of Chivim, on the eastern Mediterranean coast.
He records that he later made four or more visits to his former home on the eastern Mediterranean coast. On one of these trips, he visited a great city wherein a magnificent Temple was in the course of construction, thought by a number of researchers to have been Jerusalem. Was it Solomon’s Temple that visitors from as far away as the Americas came to see? According to the Bible record, "all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom.” (2 Chronicles 9:23) It appears that Solomon’s fame did reach to Mexico.
4 Brazil:
And now we pick up the Ophir story again. In the barely explored eastern Andes region of north-west Brazil’s Amazon jungle live the Ugha Mongulala tribe. These people, now primitive, have within their possession records written by their ancestors that mention an ancient city called Ofir (Ophir) which once stood at the mouth of the Amazon River. The Bible says that Solomon’s ships went to Ophir to obtain gold. This primitive Amazon tribe (with no knowledge of the Bible) says that ships from the east, from Samon’s -that’s not a misspelling - empire, came to their city of Ofir to trade for gold.
Their tradition states that: Lhasa, the prince of Akakor... commanded the construction of Ofir, a powerful harbour city at the mouth of the Great River [the Amazon]. Where ships from Samon’s (Solomon’s) empire docked with their valuable cargoes. In exchange for gold and silver… (Karl Brugger, The Chronicle of Akakor. New York: Delacorte Press, 1977, p.58)
It appears that like Tarshish, the name Ophir became displaced, and as the trade of the Phoenicians moved further eastward and westward, it moved with the trade, until in course of time it came to be applied to a more distant region controlled by the Phoenicians. Corroborating this, the Phoenician Ophir or Ofir means, in their language, the Western Country. (Fontaine, How the World was Peopled. Cited 64 by Bancroft, Works of Bancroft, Vol. V, p.65)
And what land lay to the west? The Americas, no less. Yes, Solomon’s fame reached to South America. My very first expedition was into the Amazon. I was greatly astonished to learn about this Ugha Mongulala tribe preserving written records of an ancient city of their ancestors called Ofir (Ophir) which was related to the gold trade. To my knowledge this was the ONLY independent mention of a specific locality called Ophir, of the Solomon period, outside of the Bible.
5. Peru:
Then I learned of the explorations of Gene Savoy. In the 1960s this intrepid explorer achieved international fame with a series of daring expeditions into the dense Peruvian jungles of the eastern Andes and Amazon region. Numerous ancient and mysterious stone cities and settlements were discovered where none were thought to exist, including the now well known Vilcabamba, one of the most dramatic and important archaeological finds of the 20th century. In the winter of 1966, Savoy found in Amazonas, Peru, a series of figures inscribed on the wall of an ancient tomb. High up in the Andes, in the region of the legendary Chachapoyas, the largest and most imposing of the glyphs resembled a figure that Savoy knew to be of Middle Eastern origin. He translated the glyph as saying “Ophir”. After Savoy had discovered that enigmatic glyph in the Andes, another inscription appeared, but this time in Israel, at Tel Qasile, an ancient site near Tel Aviv that dates from King Solomon's time.
The inscription, on a potsherd unearthed by archaeologists, bears this message in Phoenician Hebrew, Gold of Ophir, the possession of Beth-Horon, thirty shekels. The inscription once marked a pot of gold stored in the hold of an ancient Phoenician merchant ship. At its centre was the same symbol Savoy had found cut into the cliff face of the mountain in South America.
The inscription on the potsherd in Israel verifies two important facts:
(1) Voyages to Ophir actually took place.
(2) Phoenician ships acquired gold there during the time of Solomon.
It is believed that this symbol marked all the ships that travelled to Ophir in Solomon's navy. For years, Savoy’s expedition team had called the South American glyph a "ship figure" because it resembled the shape of an ancient vessel at sea. Now it is simply referred to as the "Ophir symbol.”
Then, in 1985, a startling announcement was made to the world: the discovery in Amazonas of a vast ancient metropolis that may prove to be not only the largest pre-Columbian city in South America, but also one of the largest and most unique ancient cities yet discovered in the history of archaeology. This intricate network of well over 24,000 round, ovaline and walled cut-stone structures covers an estimated 100 square miles in the Department of Amazonas west of the Utcabamba River and east of the Maranon.
Savoy named the city, centred on and around the Vilaya River drainage, Gran Vilaya, and from 1985 through 1994 led six expeditions into the region. Near the end of the 1989 Gran Vilaya expedition, the explorers came upon a set of inscribed tablets on the outskirts of the city, hidden away high in a cliffside cave. Among the many inscriptions contained on these large dolmen-type tablets was a symbol similar to the previously discovered “Ophir symbol” as well as the one discovered in Israel.
So, here we have conclusive evidence, from a Cultural Anthropological and an Archeological perspective that supports the Biblical claims concerning Solomon.
Jesus Christ an elaborate scam! or the real deal?
DAN BROWNS BOOK "DA VINCI CODE" CLAIMS HE'S A SCAM
Author Dan Browns widely promoted and hugely successful book the Da Vinci Code, completely overturned the Christian notion that the Lord Jesus Christ was in fact who the scriptures reveal Him to be. However, It seems to me that this is all about Dan Brown versus Jesus Christ, rather than a thoroughly and truthfully researched version of history. Browns highly refutable claims are of course promoted as plausible but when the surface of history is scratched just a little it wont take long to package them as the deception for which they are.
The Da Vinci Code 12 main points are as follows:
1) The Bible is a product of man not of God and History has never had a definitive version’ of the Bible.
2.) Jesus Christ has a surviving bloodline [the Sang Real] and was a just a mortal prophet.
3) An ancient, secret organization called the Priory of Sion has protected this secret and the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene for centuries.
4) This organization is connected to the Knights Templar.
5) The Priory of Sion seeks to re-establish the royal line of Jesus on the thrones of France, other European countries and Israel. “
6) The establishment of Jesus as ‘the son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea, Jesus’ divinity was the result of a vote, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity.
7) Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike. The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up, and burned and the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda – to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.
8) Leonardo da Vinci deliberately embedded clues in his paintings to expose the truth about Jesus.
9) Moreover, powerful men in the early Christian church were so afraid of losing their power to women, that they invented lies to devalue the female.
10) The Holy Grail story is not just a lost cup belonging to Jesus. It ‘is symbolic of a person, a woman who carried with her a secret so powerful that, if revealed, it threatened to devastate the very foundation of Christianity! This woman was Mary Magdalene. Not only was Jesus Christ married, but he was a father, yes and Mary Magdalene was the Holy Vessel. Her womb was the chalice that bore the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ.
11) And to cover up this dangerous fact, to hide the Holy Grail, the Church demonized Mary Magdalene into being a prostitute.
12) Brown says the Bible is sexist in stating that Eve ate the fruit and thus brought sin into the world. Brown claims these are established historical facts.
So ultimately it boils down to this, Christianity is a big hoax! Well, ever up for a challenge, the book, Da Vinci code hoax, will shatter that misconception and reveal the real facts about these matters, in turn refuting all of these fallacious claims.
Jesus is merely a Christ among Many Christs
POSITIVELY REFUTED BY SCRIPTURE AND THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY
Jesus’ name encoded in the Old Testament
In 1994, scholars at the Hebrew University and Jerusalem College of Technology announced they had discovered a hidden code in the Bible that appeared to reveal the details of events that took place thousands of years after the Bible was written amazingly encoded below the surface but within the body of text.
The code was discovered by Dr Eliyahu Rips, a world expert mathematician in quantum physics. It was later confirmed by famous mathematicians at Yale, Harvard and Hebrew University’s and verified by a senior code-breaker at the United States Department of Defence. Commonly referred to as a “skipping” code, this sub-surface code was discovered in the original language version of the Old Testament, that is, the Hebrew.
Hidden under the plain surface text, was found information in the form of equidistant letter sequences. Meaning, letters spaced at regular, equal distances throughout the text, spelled words containing another message.
The code is so intricate, complex, and clever that it is certainly well beyond human intelligence to create. The amount of information encoded into a limited text has been proven to be outside the capacity of any individual or group to create, whatever computing resources are available. We are dealing with highly sophisticated word arrangements, that are invisible without a computer. It’s the equivalent of a book constructed with several different layers of coded information hidden under the text, each layer independent of the other and each complete in itself.
For example:
In Isaiah chapter 53 there is a prophecy of the promised Messiah. The text of Isaiah 53:10 says: Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. That is the plain surface message. But encoded at 20-letter intervals through the text of this passage is the message, Jesus is my name.
The chances of that expression, being encoded beneath the surface of that particular verse, by accident, is one in a billion
Here’s another
The very first phrase of the Bible “In the beginning” is a staggering example. This verse claims that God created this earth and all life on it but beneath the surface is the coded phrase, Jesus is able. According to Jewish scholar, Yacov Rambsel, writer of the book, His Name is Jesus: Revealed in the Old Testament. Tulsa, USA: Frontier Research Publications, 1996, there are dozens and dozens of examples of Jesus and Messiah. Rambsel says Jesus is encoded in virtually every Messianic prophecy in the Old Testament.
A further example,
Continuing in Isaiah, in chapters 52 and 53 the names of 43 people and phrases were discovered all connected with the Person and death of Jesus. Encoded at various intervals, there was the following, Jesus, Nazareth, Messiah, Shiloh, Galilee, Peter Simon, John, Matthew, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, James, Simon, Matthias, Thaddaeus, Joseph, Mary (encoded 3 times – there were 3 Mary’s at the crucifixion of Jesus). His cross, Moriah, Let him be crucified, Atonement-lamb, Passover, Bread, Wine, Seed, Water, Obed, Jesse, Herod, Caesar, Pilate, Annas, Caiaphas, Levites, From Zion… Lamp of the Lord, His signature, The evil Roman Empire.
Here, in this prophetic passage there is a deliberate encoded message recorded 700 years before the events and the people named where born.
Another amazing encoded arrangement is the fascinating discovery of interlocking 7s (sevens) within the Old Testament, first discovered by Russian scientist Ivan Panin. like wheels within wheels, woven together in every conceivable way, just below the surface. It is simply astonishing, no other document on Earth contains such a code. And none has been able to replicate it.
This sequence of 7s linked with the name Jesus occurs at least 12 times in the first five books of the Bible. Jesus has been discovered, encoded at precisely 7000-letter intervals. Concerning the Passover, we find three significant words encoded, The Lamb, Messiah and Jesus. As an example, starting with the last letter of a designated fifth word, and reading the last letter of each subsequent word, we find ha’rachel (the Lamb) spelt out and at 5-letter intervals, the word Messiah appears and Jesus is spelt at 777 letter intervals.
Further In the prophecy of Daniel 9:26 which says in the plain text surface message, “Messiah shall be cut off,” we find this same name encoded beneath the surface. It says quite plainly Jesus Christ, written 600 years before the event.
In addition, in Hebrew and Greek, each letter of the alphabet also doubles as a number and by adding up the numeric value of each letter in a Hebrew word, you get a numeric value for that word. Now the name Jesus is composed of four Hebrew consonants, YOD, SHIN, WAW, AYIN. (Y-Sh-W-A) -Jesus. The total numeric value of the four letters of Jesus is 386. And twelve times in the first 5 books of the bible, that name Jesus is spelt out at 386-letter intervals. The brightest minds today cannot duplicate this. Rather, this suggests that whoever designed the Bible, did so with a disciplined attention to its precise letter-by-letter sequence. Indeed, Jesus has placed his signature throughout the pages of his written Word, just as a barely visible watermark on a bank note.
Despite these amazing confirmations of the bibles testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ , much has been done by His adversary to counter not only the claims of the Christ of scripture but to discredit His very existence and origin.
Is Jesus a case of mistaken identity? Did Jesus Christ never really exist? Was Jesus just a fairy tale copied from pagan “christs”? Why are the stories and teachings of Jesus Christ, Krishna and Buddha so remarkably similar? Were there at least 16 avatars/saviors/messiahs before Jesus Christ. For example, Krishna, Mithra, Osiris, Thoth, Prometheus, Buddha, Quetzalcoatl? And why do their mythologies have uncanny parallels, such as a virgin birth, a December 25 birthday, saviors of royal descent, a violent death, a resurrection, ascensions, and so on?
Is Christianity merely recycled paganism? Is the Bible so unreliable, you cannot trust what it tells you? Has it been tampered with? Are churches covering up the truth? These are some of the arguments, claims and questions that assert themselves today against the knowledge and understanding of the Jesus Christ of Scripture.
This is most definitely a concerted effort deliberately designed to not only muddy the waters so to speak but to completely dismiss the notion that the Lord Jesus Christ is in fact the savior Almighty God promised right back in Eden. This battle has been going on from then and in its post flood form since Babel.
I believe we deserve an explanation to these confronting issues and can assure you that there is enough evidence to not only refute these claims but also prove the truth of scripture so that a stolen identity can be revealed.
The prophecy / promise made in Gen 3:15, was known by our earliest ancestors and mankind collective memory supplies abundant testimony of a coming Deliverer/ Savior/Christ? Discover how at around 2200 BC at Babel, an arrogant imposter claimed to have fulfilled that prophecy? And that this imposter’s followers were scattered to the ends of the earth, carrying with them this fake “christ” legend?
Also, we uncover how this spawned the world’s various pagan religions with their “christs”? and how another person later appeared, claiming to fulfill the details of the original prophecy? And how the Bible documents this clash from Babel right through to the final acts documented in the bible that conclude time of earth.
How can you know the authentic from the counterfeit?
Evolution theory confronted
BY THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
At first I could not believe it; there was but one pattern—the ‘sudden’ appearance of civilizations worldwide. Five coincidences, or one pattern; call it what you like, the evidence is irrefutable.
1. Egypt.
In the 3rd millenniumn B.C. Egypt sprang into existence suddenly, fully developed—that is, without transition from a primitive state, with a fantastic ready-made high society. In the remotest period of which there are records, Egypt shows a level of civilization which is inexplicable. It sounds crazy I know, but it’s a fact!
2. Sumeria.
The appearance around the same time as Egypt of Sumerian civilization was likewise
sudden, unexpected and out of nowhere.
3. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
They were the key centers of the Indus Valley civilization. These also appear to have suddenly sprung up with no clear-cut traces of having evolved from primitive beginnings. Your
third coincidence.
4. Maya of Central America
The Maya go back to approximately the same time. And at the outset of Mayan culture, their script was already perfect. Four very odd coincidences. But there’s one more.
5. The megalith builders of northwest Europe appeared at precisely the same time. The achievements they demonstrated were identical, that is, the ‘simultaneous discovery of Pythagorean triangles, a precise calendar, a true compass-bearing for north, knowledge of the movement of celestial bodies (possibly including knowledge that the world was round) and a minutely accurate system of measurement.
Well, what do you think? How was all this possible? So many instant civilizations.
I took a map, encircled these suddenly appearing, ready- made cultures and stared at them.
A COMMON ORIGIN
Was there any connection between them?
I began to sift every available isolated piece of information. Over the next few months the search would lead through scores of countries. Something told me there was a connection, though I knew not where. As for a possible link between the "instant" civilizations, eight clues emerged.
1. Symbols and hieroglyphics, identical worldwide, bore the marks of a common heritage. Everywhere the swastika, snake and sun combinations, as well as numerous specialized and intricate glyphs were repeated with no chance of coincidence.
2. Likewise, similar systems of writing were in use— again all over the globe, even on isolated islands. This was striking.
3. And languages had similarities. The older these were, the more they resembled each other.
Practically all languages have connections through both vocabulary and construction. In almost every language are many words containing similar root words or combinations beyond what mere chance would allow. (Take, for instance, the names of the constellations. I found these were substantially the same whether in Mexico, Africa or Polynesia.)
4. The calendars of Egypt and faraway Peru both had eighteen months of twenty days, with a five-day holiday at year’s end.
5. I also took into account the great similarities in buildings, not only in construction but in astronomical alignment. Sphinxes in Egypt and Yucatan; pyramids on every continent and on remote islands; monoliths and stone circles also worldwide and often quarried elsewhere in the world. I was struck by similarity even as to original purpose. The Tower of Babel was built (according to Josephus, first-century Jewish historian) to provide shelter should another Deluge destroy the earth. And regarding the Toltec pyramids, the Mexican chronicler, Ixtlilxochitl, states: "After men had multiplied, they erected a very high ‘zacuali,’ which is today a tower of great height, in order to take refuge in it should the second world be destroyed." Now I ask you, without a common source, why should the purpose be identical in Babylon and Mexico?
6. Customs again were similar, as in burial, mummification, circumcision, or in binding babies’ heads to produce an elongated skull. (The Maya, Incas, Celts, Egyptians and Basques did this.)
7. Forms of religious observance bore more striking similarities.
8. Finally, I added to the list worldwide traditions of early history. Traditions of a Garden of Delight, a Golden Age, a global Flood, one original language, a tower where sudden language confusion resulted in a dispersal—clearly these bore the marks of a common source.
Of one thing I was certain. The origins of cultures that were so different and so widely dispersed could not wholly be explained by borrowing and imitation. The Russian poet Valeri Brussov seemed to express it well: "At the bases of the oldest cultures of mankind we must look for a single influence… We must look back beyond antiquity for an X, for a still unknown cultural world that set the engine we know in motion.
“The Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks and Romans were all our teachers, but who were our teachers’ teachers?”
My attention was riveted. Here were several fully developed cultures, apparently related, suddenly appearing out of nowhere. Well, how does one deal with such a discovery? I must confess, my curiosity was exploding. One more search was imperative. This time I had to track down the common source of any footprints leading to these cultures.
SOURCE OF THE FOOTPRINTS
Fortunately, after four to five thousand years, there were prints still visible enough to read Language was the first clue. It was soon apparent that root words in almost every language had their origins in the Middle East. Written signs added to the evidence. A single system of signs used over an extensive area of the earth by the Stone-writers originated likewise in the Middle East.
Anthropology provided another helpful clue. I discovered that the best reconstructions by anthropologists located man’s point of origin close to the center of the Europe- Asia-Africa land mass. Archaeological finds clinched it. Agriculture had spread all over the world from, where else, but the Middle East highlands. In every instance plants, shrubs and fruit bearing trees basic to survival and advancement came out of the Middle East first. Botanical genetic studies confirm the archaeological finds and leave no doubt.
There it was. Our beginnings were in the Middle East highlands. You ask, why did agriculture begin in the difficult arc of mountains and highlands? Doesn’t it make you wonder? Why was it not begun on the fertile, easily cultivated plains and valleys? That is a natural enough question. During my search I had found other scholars expressing surprise at this most odd discovery.
The evidence suggests a worldwide Deluge as recorded in the bible, that is commonly referred to as Noah’s Flood yes this does shed some light on things. Survivors of such a Deluge (an event most scholars have overlooked) would still be in the mountains. The lowlands were not yet dry enough following the global Flood. And did you know, biblical sources not only point to the mountains of Ararat (modern day Armenia) as the landing place of the Flood survivors, but state that they landed in the mountains.
Artifacts uncovered suggest that settled communities extended from the Americas in the west to Thailand in the east by 2000 B.C. And overlaying that is a proven pattern of high cultures from Spain to Pakistan. Modern day Armenia is the dispersion point laying almost precisely in the middle of global map.
I would later discover that other researchers had reached a similar conclusion. As says Howells: "If we look, first of all, for that part of the world which was the hothouse of the races, we can make only one choice. All the visible footsteps lead away from Asia. "
Five significant discoveries made
1. Each of the first civilizations appeared suddenly, already fully developed.
2. A connection existed between them.
3. Their footprints led back to the Middle East mountains.
Only one thing could explain their high level of civilization. Those nations got their heritage basically from the world that was wiped out in the Deluge. They continued where the generation of the biblical Noah left off! The Flood survivors must have carried sufficient knowledge of the antediluvian era to give a rapid start to the new cultures that sprang up ‘out of nowhere’ soon after.
A few hundred years is all the time needed. The oldest civilizations appear just long enough after the Deluge for a population density to support a culture. Of course we could hardly claim to be first to conclude such . Sir Leonard Woolley notched up a similar observation years before:
"It was confidently expected that the widely held view of a gradual development would be proved, but the whole evidence has been to the contrary; indeed, it has grown to such proportions where we contact the most ancient civilizations that we find the peak was reached soon after the flood."
The sudden appearance of civilization is itself a memorial to history’s one great catastrophe. More importantly, the Flood is a historical event of tremendous testimonial importance to modern man. Our world conditions are similar – high technology, population explosion, corruption and violence. Is there a warning for us here?
GLOBAL ORDER FROM THE RUINS
It goes without saying that the small group of bewildered survivors from the Deluge could hardly reproduce all the aspects of the pre-Flood technology. Nevertheless, they would have bequeathed to their migrating descendants the information of which they had personal or recorded knowledge. We know that the very earliest grains show genetic evidence of sophisticated manipulation; that is, they were already uniform and highly specialized immediately after the Flood.
In an attempt to reconstruct the antedeluvian technology, the semblance of an integrated global civilization emerged in various parts of the world. Its achievements were astonishing; in some spheres, penetrating knowledge which our science has scarcely begun to nudge.
The proponents of Evolution theory have been confronted with astonishing facts on a global scale that challenge its very precepts. Unanswerable, these achievements are frequently ignored for the simple reason that they cannot be explained, except from a biblical perspective.
Carbon dating must be reliable! Mustn't it?
SUPRISED -KNOW HOW IT WORKS AND THAT IT CANT BE TRUSTED
Recently I visited the Australian museum of Natural History and Anthropology and among many things was treated to a display that employed the impressive features of modern technology. A brilliant AI display that revealed in 10 minutes what is supposed to have happened in Queensland so many millions of years ago. It is commonly accepted today that the dating systems that are used to promote an extremely long age for the geological column and life on earth are givens and should not be challenged. And if challenged many will look in aghast and shock as to how someone could audaciously suggest otherwise. These assumptions are far more insidious than a speculative and impressive AI presentation, as they impact so much of our collective psychology and cultural norms. Plus they have become in many ways the foundation for other assumptions that deal with the origins of man and his migrations. And are now challenging and in some ways supplanting long established histories that were known to be true and accepted as such for millennia So today we will do just that, by bringing into question the facts that pertain to the methodology and some of the processes that relate to Carbon dating.
Lets start with cosmic radiation from outer space that continually bombards the earth. These rays interacting with the nitrogen in the atmosphere cause all living things, animal or vegetable, to absorb radioactive carbon 14 (C14). This continues until the death of each living thing. Then the radioactive carbon begins to break down, and this occurs at an accurately known rate. To discover how long it is since that living thing died, the residual radiocarbon in the specimen is measured. If half of the original C14 remains, then the age of the subject is very close to 5,568 years. The procedure was tested by using samples with ages already established by other means. And it always checked out. It was natural to assume, then, that it would be equally reliable on samples for which there was no way of determining age.
NO C-14 IN COAL When samples of coal (from ancient trees) were tested, there was found to be no residual C14. So, assuming that there was the usual amount of radiocarbon in the trees before they died, it was then assumed that the trees must have been dead for a very long time for the C14 to have completely disintegrated. So the 16 scientists dated the coal at many hundreds of thousands of years old. So far so good.
NECESSARY ASSUMPTIONS
But the validity of this method of dating depends upon four assumptions:
1. That the amount of cosmic radiation in the atmosphere has remained constant at all times in all places;
2. That the sample tested has not been contaminated by recent microbes or bacteria;
3. That the sample is pure – preserved from leaching, radiation, and so on.
4. That the rate of decay is constant. ASSUMPTIONS? That’s right. Those ASSUMPTIONS have to be made when carbon dating was first announced by Dr. Libby in 1949, it was thought to be the last word. When C-14 dating is compared to firm historical dates, it is generally accurate to within 150 years + or -, although some comparisons show a 250-year difference.
UNRELIABLE BEYOND 4,000 TO 5,000 YEARS
Even Libby, the developer of C-14 dating, later admitted his great disappointment in finding that it was not reliable beyond about 4,000-5,000 years, or about 2000-3000 BC. In any case, since about 2000 BC is the oldest firm historical date available, before that year there is no independent means of checking its accuracy. Very few are admitting it publicly, but the early confidence is no longer justified. You see, it has been discovered that cosmic radiations vary widely, due to many factors, natural and industrial. Most results – that’s right, most results - are rendered invalid by absorption, leaching, cosmic radiation, and a proven varied rate of decay.
(See The Great Dating Blunder, Chapters 1 and 2.)
Suppose you enter a sealed room which contains nothing but a burning candle. You are asked to determine how long the candle has been burning. You soon realise how impossible this is. You could measure the relative amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the room; or you could try to figure out how long the melted wax took to accumulate but you cannot know whether someone had opened and re-shut the window.
Was it ever put out and re-lit? Could some interruption have caused it to burn faster? You see, there is room for enormous error. Dating cannot deal with unique events. They’re gone. You cannot re-run them. You cannot repeat a test on them. A cosmic global disaster, say shortly before 2000 BC, cannot be repeated in the lab. But it would play immeasurable havoc upon readings prior to about 2,000 BC. A series of measurements of samples of known age (from historical records, for example), extending back about 3,800 years, has shown fairly good agreement. However, they become inaccurate on materials which lived before that. And even in that period, considerable correction is at times required.
ASSUMPTIONS QUESTIONABLE
The carbon 14 method has been widely accepted in a way that the results do not seem to justify. It has now been discovered that cosmic radiations vary widely, due to many factors:
1. The magnetic field around the earth (which is now known to be deteriorating rapidly)
2. The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere
3. Solar and stellar activity (Nobody knows, for example, what effect sunspot activity has had over the centuries.)
4. Volcanic addition of non-radioactive carbon dioxide into the air 5. Industrial addition of carbon dioxide into the air
6. Electrical activity.
All of these factors are subject to change and all give indications of different conditions in the past. James R. Arnold of the Institute of Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, gives a typical scientific assessment: So far there is no proof independent of the method, that the cosmic ray intensity has remained constant, and however reasonable it may be, we must rank this as a pure assumption. (James R. Arnold, Nuclear Geology, 1954, p. 350)
The so-called “constants” originally accepted can be no longer regarded as “constants”.
The consequence is that dating systems are now most suspect. One problem centres around the constancy of ozone in the upper atmosphere. Other scholars are declaring that great changes, even in radiation, have taken place in relatively recent times. French scientists Drs. E. and O. Thellier investigated Roman bricks of 200 AD. From the degree of magnetization of amounts of iron in the dried clay compared with such materials today, they estimated that the earth’s magnetic field may have weakened by as much as 65 per cent in the past 2,000 years. (Scientific American, vol. 196, No. 2, February, 1957, p.64)
The weakening of this force field cushion around the earth indicates an increase in both cosmic ray intensity in our atmosphere and in radiocarbon in recent times. So declare Dr. Elsasser of the University of Utah and Drs. Ney and Winckler of the University of Minnesota. If such a phenomenon is general around the earth, it would mean that all radiocarbon datings, especially of more ancient materials, are suspect. With less radiocarbon in ancient times, organic materials (which 20 would thus show less radioactivity residue) would now give a false appearance of being much older than they really are. Clifford Wilson notes: It appears that dramatic changes occurred in the earth’s atmosphere a few thousand years ago. Beyond that time – roughly one half-life of Carbon-14 – radiometric dating is not reliable. (Clifford Wilson, The Chariots Still Crash. Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revel and Co., 1976, p.p. 70) Gilbert N. Plass, writing in
American Scientist, concurs that “all radiocarbon dates for events before the recession of the glaciers are in question.” (Gilbert N. Plass, “Carbon Dioxide and the Climate”, American Scientist, vol. 44, July, 1956, p. 314)
THE CARBON-14 COVER UP - Surely not?
We now come to the most astounding unpublicised fact concerning the Carbon-14 system. This technique has, during its development, uncovered some startling, though publicly undisclosed, evidence of an earth with an atmosphere less than 10,000 years old. Here it is. Through the action of solar rays, radioactive carbon is being formed in the atmosphere at a constant rate. This Carbon-14 ultimately enters all living tissues; and much more is absorbed into the ocean. From the time of its formation, it begins a slow decay. Theoretically, the amount decaying per day SHOULD BE EQUAL TO the amount being produced by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. THE SUCCESS OF CARBON-14 DATING DEPENDS ON THIS EQUILIBRIUM.
So here is the crucial question:
How long would it take for the Carbon-14 on earth to build up from almost zero to equilibrium? And why are certain facts that undermine the theory held back?
This effects the entire history of our planet and has captivated the minds of millions. It has serious moral implications and has proven to have disastrous affects from an anthropological and cultural perspective. Erroneous dating systems have given impetus to un scientific theories such as evolution that since its infancy created a rationale for racism. If anyone doubts this they should be reminded of WW2 and even the ideas that circulated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that gave rise to Eugenics. Much more could be said but I will conclude here and invite you to pursue further reading on this matter.
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Why are innocent people suffering?
THIS IS A QUESTION THAT DEMANDS AN ANSWER
The Lord Jesus Christ celebrated seven festivals every year that many Christians today can not name, yet He is at the core of all of them. He is the reason for each of them and they have great meaning. These are not an obligatory Christian practice but were merely a teaching tool among many others that God gave Israel under the Old Covenant. They were signs and symbols , school masters to bring us to Christ, as the Apostle Paul taught. But what did all of the religious practices including the sacrificial system that accompanied these festivals prove or suggest.
The scripture says that the Lords way is in the sanctuary and the festivals or yearly calendar feasts where linked to the sanctuary, it was all part of a bigger system that was fulfilled in Christ, so that His Law (HIs moral Character) could be written in our heart under the New Covenant. The New Covenant is designed to change a persons nature - to form Christ in a person , their hope of glory.
This now brings us back to our heading that asks the question "why do the innocent suffer"? for which I might add why do some lust for power and desire to control and dominate others. The answer is because of the state of the earth they are born into. The bible calls this sin. And this was also the reason for the sanctuary service and the various religious practices under the Old Testament. They were designed to teach that we are in a fallen (sinful) world that is at enmity with God and that because of this there is tremendous suffering but its not Gods will for this condition to prevail for ever and therefor He allows us to choose to be reconciled to Him and receive a new heart thus having the mind of Christ formed in us. Enabling us to enter a narrow path that leads to life. And ultimately to return to a paradise with no more suffering. Where there will be no more death, no more sorrow, and no more weeping. All things made new as the scripture says.
Truly, from a biblical perspective suffering the way we suffer in this world is not natural, but today we have become so used to death that we take it for granted that death is a natural, normal, essential part of our existence. But scripture reveals that it was not always so. The fact is, death is an enemy, an intrusion, that need not be. Dr Linus C. Pauling, world renowned chemist and winner of two Nobel prizes provides an insight into the reality:
Death he says is unnatural, Theoretically, man is quite immortal. His body tissues replace themselves. He is a self repairing machine. And yet he gets old and dies, and the reasons for this are still a mystery. Yes, life should have continued joyously, on and on. But sin creates another dynamic. There can not be perfection absent from God. And sin separated man from God. So now, separated from the Life-Giver, the natural consequence would be death and this involves suffering.
Scripture reveals that this intrusion into Gods creation was initiated by Gods adversary Satan who used deceit to convince our first parents to become their own Gods rather than maintain fellowship with the the Almighty. Satan, through his subtilties had won the first round and Mankind was now in his grasp, alienated from his Creator. However , the Almighty was not content to leave the battle and give up on His creation. Due to our Creator’s great love He would intervene in 2 ways.
1) Life on Earth would be subjected to death and a shortened lifespan.
2) God would implement a program that would offer salvation from the sinful condition. This would be worked out over time and culminate in a restitution of what was lost. The ultimate escape from the suffering associated with sin and death.
Some may ask how could a good God institute such a penalty and subject His creation to the curse of death. An obvious answer would be to limit pain and despite the fact that people are still suffering, its is not as bad as it could potentially be. Yes, He knew what He was doing. With so much evil from men and women with brief life spans ruining the world, If we were to live forever in a sinful condition this world might well have been destroyed by us long ago and the suffering on a larger scale.
It was an act of mercy for the Creator to implement mortality. If He had not done so, there would be no possibility of any release from their suffering. Death, then, became an act of mercy on the part of Almighty God. It placed a limitation on suffering . And the pain resulting from mankind’s choice to sever himself from God. And even now if we are honest we would have to agree with scripture that there is none righteous no not one, we have all gone our own way and none of us is blameless. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Despite the fact that we all like to justify our selves from time to time.
Yes, each of us has gone his own way. I can remember protesting, “But I’m a good person I haven't don this or haven't done that etc. And yes some of that may be true but I would be lying if I said i had never wished someone harm or had thoughts of revenge? and what about lying and impatience, jealousy or covetousness. Oh the list goes on from this self justifying good person. These are all spiritual laws that define character and demonstrate my sinful nature. It is good to recognize we have a sin problem. Then we can seek help. Suppose a person with cancer never recognizes his or her condition, or seeks help? Let’s face it. If I say I have no sin I am deceiving myself.
Yes, by violating Gods laws we have severed ourselves from our only source of all life; cutting ourselves off means death and suffering in a world of suffering. What a predicament we are in and we cannot extricate ourselves from this. We are trapped. We sure need help. But its not just sin working in us as individuals to create an unholy self centred world of suffering and death. We need to be aware of what the bibles says of our adversary and his schemes and machinations if we are to truly get a better understanding of this vast subject.
The bible reveals that there are the evil rulers of the unseen world, mighty satanic beings of darkness and deception who rule this world. (Ephesians 6:12) and these in conjunction with mans fallen nature perpetuate the suffering and death. These spiritual enemies of God and man are diabolical and powerful. They are malicious and in open rebellion against the Almighty. And they’ve brought their rebellion to this planet. They have a program too and its at odds with Gods and they will do all they can to disable the Almighty's strategy to rescue mankind from his dire position.
Unseen and operating behind the scenes they are beyond the light spectrum, so that we are not able to see them. Nevertheless, they are, by "condensation," on occasions capable of visibility. They do this for a variety of reasons to maintain their deception in one form or another the goal being to keep you and me separate from the Lord Jesus Christ and the salvation plan He offers. They have been busy since the fall of man in a move and counter move war against God and man on Earth since the beginning. This battle is fought out in a variety of fields using a variety of tools / weapons. All deliberate and calculated to take our minds away from the Almighty and His generous offer that will restore us. Yes, the Bible reveals that this war has been a long running affair covering the complete history of Earth. Satan and his hosts ultimate goal is control and subjection directly or indirectly, The Lords is freedom from sin and death, suffering and all sins woes in a new heaven and new earth a home of righteousness as the scriptures define it.
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The Truth behind Star Signs
THE ZODIAC MYSTERY
One of the tantalising mysteries of archaeology has been the zodiac. Would you believe that all over the world – despite language differences – isolated ancient cultures had IDENTICAL meanings for the names of the constellations and stars. For example, the same group of stars was called Virgo by the Romans, Bethulah by the Hebrews, Parthenos by the Greeks, and Kanya by the Indians. And every one of these names means Virgin. Investigators have come to the conclusion that all nations had an original zodiac with a common source.
WHAT IS THE ZODIAC?
Zodiac? you ask. Isn’t that an astrological term? Not really. Perhaps before proceeding further we should define our terms. Astrology is the linking of positions and aspects of celestial bodies to the belief that they influence earthly and human affairs. Astronomy, on the other hand, is purely and simply the scientific study of the celestial bodies and phenomena. The zodiac belongs not to astrology, but to astronomy.
You see, very early in human history, the stars were named and arranged into groups (constellations) and drawn on sky charts as pictures of animals, people and other objects. These constellations extend in a belt about 16 degrees wide, encircling the earth. If the stars could be seen in daytime, the sun, moon and planets would appear to move through this belt over the course of one year, in a path called the ecliptic.
It is this belt, with 12 months for its steps or stages, that we call the zodiac (not from the Greek life as is commonly supposed, but from a more ancient Hebrew word meaning a way by steps). Each stage of the yearly cycle contains its own group of stars designated by a picture, or sign. These are the 12 signs of the zodiac.
Each sign is accompanied by 3 more adjacent signs, called decans (pieces). This makes a numbered and well-ordered set of 48 signs (12 groups of 4). (Actually there are 88 constellations in all, but only 48 lie within the band across the sky known as the zodiac.)
"EXPERTS” UNABLE TO EXPLAIN
The world has looked in vain for the origin of these inventions. Current attempts to explain the zodiac's existence are clearly lame and absurd, with no supporting fact. It has been taught in introductory astronomy classes that these star groupings resulted from the fantasies of primitive imaginations. Ask any expert, “Where did the constellations come from?” “To identify the locations of surrounding nations,” some will reply. No,” retort others. “They come from observations of the seasons and man's seasonal occupations.”
For example, in December the sun was seen ascending toward the north, so men gave that month the sign of a Goat, because goats like to climb rocks! Hmm…er, well. September's equal days and nights led to the drawing of the
sign of the Scales, it is said (though one wonders why March had no such sign, and unfortunately - but don't dare mention it - these “equal” Balances have one side up and the other down!). October, abundant in fruit, meant that many people got sick, hence a Scorpion! (These wizards seem unworried by the fact that the scorpion has no particular season.)
Such delightful twaddle has actually appeared [don't laugh] in our books of science. It is true that some of the signs have at times been used as seasonal markers. However, being of less than infinite intelligence, I find myself asking a few dumb questions. For starters, how is it there is not one country anywhere that the interpretations for all the signs fit?
Then again, why, if the signs were developed to reflect local planting conditions (which would differ in each global region),or to celebrate local legends, then why are the signs – from Mexico to Africa to Polynesia - the same the world over? Something else. Modern explanation is limited to only 12 of the constellations. What of the remaining 36 equally conspicuous figures?
One could go on, but you get the point. Is it not disturbing? Here is a great and masterly system of ancient hieroglyphics, very ancient and in use today, which modern man cannot historically or scientifically explain. It baffles them. So they guess. And the flippancy with which they dispose of some of the problems, while ignoring others, shows that they have not fully taken in the case. I do feel sorry for the theorists, but that will just not do.
There is enough evidence now to show that not until Greece, Rome and later, did such mistaken notions arise. The more ancient peoples never so explained these signs. Several ancient nations, such as the Chaldeans, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Indians, and the Chinese, although seated at some great distance from each other, possessed astronomical formulae common to them all.
These were handed down to them by tradition from some general source: for they used them, as our workmen use certain mechanical or geometrical rules, without any knowledge of the principles on which they were originally constructed. Research now suggests that the constellation figures were designed as a pictorial scientific coordinate system. In other words, a set of imaginary lines for measuring positions.
But the pictures formed by them told a story.
A COMMON ORIGIN
Is it possible that the system had one common origin? Why do I ask that? Because we find that this same star story was scattered across the whole ancient world.
ANCIENT STAR MAPS RECORDED A PROPHECY
A prophecy? Yes, it was a prophecy – and shown on star charts in 48 pictures as well as in the meanings of star names. So, what was this prophecy? That’s clear when you examine the ancient names. It was about an expected coming Deliverer. So many of us have just assumed that the star signs were to tell peoples’ fortunes through the stars? Oh, come on! It’s evident they had nothing to do with astrology. They were known long before astrology was ever thought of. It turns out that the ancient civilizations believed that a serpent (representing the Devil) had taken control of the earth.
They believed that a virgin’s baby would fight the serpent, defeat him and bring life, peace and happiness back to mankind. The hieroglyphic pictures on the star maps plainly showed this. It is a prophecy that parents around the world passed down to their children. In fact, carefully researching these star maps myself, I was able to catalogue no less than 116 absolute parallelisms between these star messages and prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures which told of the same coming Deliverer.
Both sources told the same, identical story – from beginning to end… the prophecy of a Messiah who would come to rescue men and woman of planet Earth.
OLDER THAN EVENTUAL “CHRIST” LEGENDS
How old are these star signs? From internal evidences, it has been calculated that both the solar and lunar zodiacs had their origin when the summer solstice was in the first degree of Virgo, about 4000 BC. As you may already know, each year the stars rise and set some 50.2 seconds later. In 2,156 years they fall back 30 degrees.
It has been calculated that when the earliest zodiac sphere was drawn, the position of the stars in relation to earth was almost 90 degrees different from now. So this brings us close to 4000 BC. That’s 6,000 years ago. To tie the evidence together, it now appears that a promised Messiah was portrayed on star maps that go back thousands of years older than the various “christ” legends of India, Mexico, Greece and Rome.
This prophecy was known to mankind LONG BEFORE the time of the Sumerians, the Indians or the Egyptians. In fact, whether you believe them or not, the ancients themselves claimed it had been handed down from the first parents of the human race.
A changed order of things.
STONEHENGE AND THE GREAT PYRAMED
Before we examine the purpose for Stonehenge and the great Pyramid, we need to first review the pre-flood World. Geology testifies to a once mild and uniform climate over the entire globe. There is reason to believe that this paradise world existed within the memory of humanity. From scripture and scientific projection, it can be determined that most of the earth’s surface was then land and there were no high mountains forming physical or climatic barriers.
Ocean beds were relatively shallow and there was an abundance of vegetation, pole to pole. Plant and animal types were of greater variety than today. They were also more widely and evenly distributed – and of greater size and quality – than their modern descendants as the fossil record reveals.
A vapour envelope surrounding the planet not only precluded winds, storms and rain, but also filtered out life shortening cosmic rays. Several factors favoured a much longer human life span. Indeed, while ancient records recall such longevity, modern science admits to its possibility. Population growth over some two millennia may have produced a population comparable to our own, sufficiently large to cover the earth. And coupled with the incredible mental faculties of man at that time, tremendous scientific advances were made, advances that we can’t even begin to imagine. Hence the abundance of unexplainable objects and structures throughout the world.
Yet mankind was sliding into spiritual bankruptcy. The Bible records that corruption was widespread. Violence was exploding out of control. Subsequently, humanity may well have become extinct, had not a supernatural power intervened. The bible reveals that God did intervene by way of a massive global flood and we are living in the aftermath of that cataclysmic event. This very event which predictably would be scoffed at, has left us with many mysteries of the past such as the following.
For example, DID YOU KNOW?... that the ancients all had A 360-DAY YEAR AT FIRST. Yes, the ancient calendars had a 360-day year and that’s why the earth was divided into 360 degrees. Whether it be the ancient Chinese or the Babylonian, or the Roman and the Mayan. Even the Indian and the Egyptian, all had a calendar that was 360 days long. But later, every nation changed its calendar.
This rearrangement of the calendars in antiquity has long been a puzzle to scholars. Why did ALL those ancient nations change their calendars from years of 360 days to 365 ¼ days?
Some have suggested and propagated the idea that humans because of evolution were primitive at first and then became more technological as they evolved. However, science has discovered that those ancient peoples were already excellent astronomers and mathematicians, that's right, even when they created the 360 day calendar.
The Maya as an example, have left us some of their calculations. They computed the synodal period of the moon as 29.5209 days, as accurately as we can calculate today with our sophisticated equipment. Their degree of accuracy would surely not have been less for the year.
And what about Great Pyramid of Egypt I know some folk like to think that it is much older then Biblical records suggest. Some supposing that it is 12000 years old but realistically, there is good reason to believe that it was built within a few hundred years after the Flood. The Great Pyramid accurately stands in the centre of the land surface of the earth as it NOW exists and must have existed at the time the pyramid was built.
It could be called a huge planet marker, a giant survey post. It marks both the longitude and latitude at which there is more land and less sea than at any other meridian on earth. Evidently the builders were well acquainted with the exact amount of land on the surface of the earth as it existed AFTER the Flood (not before), as well as its geographical distribution. This suggests that results of the post-Flood global survey were already in.
It would also explain why the NEW LENGTH OF THE YEAR was also incorporated into the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The external features, dimensions and units of this
pyramid together give precisely and accurately every essential value of the earth’s PRESENT motions and orbit – not the PREVIOUS one that existed before 2345 BC.
For example, intentionally or by accident, the circuit distance around its base, measured direct from corner to corner, is 36,524.22 primitive inches. This is exactly 100 times 365.2422 - the value in days of our solar year. Even though the calendar was still 360 days long. This is so astonishing, we must take off our hats to those early post-Flood scientists. They were ahead of us in many ways. There was no rough count; it was precise to the ten thousandth of a decimal point.
A tablet discovered at Tanus in the Nile Delta in 1866 reveals that in the ninth year of Ptolemy Euergetes (c. 237 BC), the priests at Canopus decreed that it was “necessary to harmonise the calendar according to the present arrangement of the world.” The reason the ancients gave for the re-calculated calendars was not that they were in error, nor that they had improved on more primitive techniques. It was that there was a “changed order of things.” And with each passing century, the calendar misalignment had become more pronounced.
The nations that sprang up after the Flood with a ready-made culture, inherited their knowledge basically from the world that was wiped out at the Deluge. They continued where Noah left off. They inherited, along with everything else, the antedeluvian (pre-Flood) calendar of 360 days. Was there, at the time of the Deluge, a change not only in the planet’s axis, but a change in its orbit, which in turn caused the lengthened year?
It does bring to mind that curious biblical reference to the Creator, who was believed to “move the earth out of her place.” (Isaiah 13:13)
It would certainly clear up a lot of mystery about Stonehenge, also.
The precision of Stonehenge is astonishing. Consider the heel stone. This heavy boulder had to be set in a hole in the ground exactly in the right position. If placed too high, it would need to be taken out and the hole deepened. If too low, it would once more have to be shifted. Even if it had been dropped into precisely the right position, its 35 ton weight might well have made it settle lower. Nobody could know for sure how much it would eventually settle.
Such accuracy applied to every stone that was positioned. Some of the fallen stones were re-erected in 1958. Extremely powerful cranes were used. Yet, even with this modern equipment, it proved impossible to align or set them up as accurately as had the ancient builders!
Gerald Hawkins, on the basis of computer syntheses of a great many measurements at Stonehenge, suggests that Stonehenge was, in fact, a computer for measuring all the relationships between earth, the sun and the moon. (Gerald Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded. Souvenir Press, 1966)
The heel stone and the trilithons and the shadows cast by the pillars all played an intricate role. Experts have long puzzled over the 56 Aubrey holes. Hawkins suggests they could have functioned as a computer, this way: If one stone was moved around the circle by one hole each year, then all the extremes of the seasonal moon and eclipses of the sun and moon at the solstices and equinoxes, could have been foreseen.
If six stones, spaced 9,9,10,9,9,10 Aubrey holes apart, were used, each of them moved one hole counter-clockwise each year, amazing powers of prediction could result. With 6 stones (3 white, 3 black), the Aubrey hole computer could have predicted - precisely – every important moon event for hundreds of years. The terrestrial axis is currently inclined at 23½ degrees.
The early Greek philosophers viewed this tilt as an “irregular condition,” and not something that had been fixed since the beginning. Anaxagoras wrote: “In the beginning the stars moved in the sky as in a revolving dome, so that the celestial pole which is always visible was vertically overhead; but subsequently the pole took its inclined position.”
The Northern Hemisphere sun moves from a maximum position of +23 1/2 degrees northward in summer to a a -23½ degree extreme southern declination in winter.
The moon does a reverse move - north in winter, south in summer. The moon also has a more complicated relative motion than the sun; it has TWO northern and TWO southern maxima. In an 18.61 year cycle, it varies so that its far north and south declinations move from 29 degrees
to 19° to 29° again. This difference is due to the combined effects of the earth's tilt and precession of orbit.
The Stonehenge complex was precisely aligned to EVERY ONE of these movements. With the 18.61 year cycle, the only way to attain accuracy with whole numbers is by the sequence 19-19-18, which, added together, make 56 – the number of Aubrey holes!
Amazing but true. Stonehenge is a brilliantly designed and constructed astronomical device, WHICH COULD CALCULATE EVERY POSITION of the sun and moon.
And why all this?
The Great Flood, we should consider, had a great deal to do with the construction of this and other precise stone structures. It appears that Stonehenge was built to determine the new orbital position and thus the new length of the year, as well as the new axial position of the earth, following the catastrophe.
If indeed the earth had been jolted abruptly from its original orbit, such a jolt would also have severely affected the moon. If the moon was on the side away from the sun when it happened, a change of our orbit away from the sun would have brought the moon closer to earth. The original shorter-year calendar (360 days) suggests that the earth was slightly closer to the sun.
The original ancient lunar month was 36 days, which implies that the moon orbited the earth at a greater distance. The jolting of earth would have reversed this - the earth now being further from the sun would make a longer year; and the moon in orbit nearer to earth, a shorter month.
The truth is that REVISED ANCIENT CALENDARS REFLECT THIS CHANGE.
Stonehenge and its counterparts were built, I do believe, to re-evaluate the length of the year and the lunar month. Similar stone computers covered the whole of Britain and western France. They formed, possibly, a huge complex, with Stonehenge as the central unit, against which the findings of all the others were correlated. Such arrangements made of stones over vast distances have been found and these create exact equilateral triangles, which can be used for triangulation of reference points.
And after their purpose had been accomplished there was no further need for them, and they were left. That answers another question that has puzzled scholars. Why, after the final phase of Stonehenge was completed, was the site abandoned for many centuries - until the Druids began to use it as a gathering place? The answer makes perfect sense. It was built to perform certain specific functions. Its purpose was accomplished. It was needed no more.
A GRADUAL PROCESS
The re-evaluation of the length of the year and the lunar month would ultimately lead to a revision of the ancient calendars. This was not accomplished overnight though.
You see, after the Great Flood, when the surface of the earth was severely altered, the earth’s orbit was also affected. This naturally modified the length of the year. Surveying parties would have been required all over the planet, to re-map the world and to re-calculate earth’s relationship to the sun, moon and other objects in the sky. Thus, Stonehenge and other sites served a common purpose and new calendars would be an eventual result.
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom... fire... Gen 19:24
CITIES GLOBALLY DISSAPEAR
I invite you to consider the enormous changes that have come upon our world during human history. Were you aware that where there is now the dense jungle of the South American Amazon, there was, some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago a vast stretch of inland water? This article will reveal some amazing facts about our world and its past. Be prepared to be shocked.
THE AMAZON SEA
When man first settled South America, the whole Amazon basin was a shallow inland sea. Into the great inland Amazon Sea, many rivers flowed which are now the arms and feeders of the great Amazon River. And also at that time there was no mountain range between the Amazon and the Pacific Ocean. The Amazon Sea connected naturally with the Atlantic Ocean in the east and with the Pacific in the west, by canals. These canals remained intact until the Andes mountains were raised suddenly. But that is something for another time.
The shore lines of this inland sea are distinctly visible today:
1.The northern shores: Along the foothills of the Venezuelan highlands are beautiful white quartz beaches.
2.The western shores: Along the eastern foothills of the Andes, these shorelines can also be seen.
Amid the Amazon basin there are vast tracks of sand “islands” not too far from the rivers’ edges. These sandy strips in the midst of savannah or even forest seem to be ancient beaches where the sea surf once broke; yet they cannot be so very ancient because continental vegetation has not yet deposited more than the thinnest green veneer on most of them.
Some Brazilian scientists claim they have evidence that the Amazon Sea was still there about the year 1200 B.C. In the nineteenth century, James Churchward was travelling through Tibet. At one of the western monasteries he found some large tablets, which on examination proved to contain maps of various parts of the earth. These were very ancient. Among these maps was one of South America.
This South American map shows the Amazon Sea. It also shows a city at the exact spot where the ruins of Tiahuanaco (in Bolivia, south of Lake Titicaca) are today. And it shows a canal nearby. If you go to that ruined city today, you can find nearby the remains of ancient stone-lined canals, which are broken up and out of alignment, up and down, like the swells of the sea.
That whole area has risen thousands of feet. And there are clues that it happened suddenly. The now arid regions of the coastal strip of Peru and Chile must once have been very different. Deserts could not have supported the extensive cities with great urban populations whose ruins have been uncovered there.
I’ve flown over the great Peruvian Desert. It is the driest in the world. Even in our time, Chile’s Coquimbo region was used for cattle grazing. It is now so depleted that only hardy cacti and goats seem able to survive.
TANTALIZING QUESTIONS
Here follows 30 amazing facts for your consideration. Did you know that there are islands, now deep beneath the sea, with remains of cities, palaces and temples on them? Did you hear about the pilot who, on a trans-ocean flight, discovered a drowned mountainside city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? Were you aware of the ruins up to four stories high, that you can explore only if you go diving? Did you know that a submarine accidently bumped into a flight of man-made steps cut into a cliffside 1,400 feet below the surface?
Where you aware of the 700 miles of tunnels in the Sahara desert? Have you heard of the bizarre lost city in the clouds? And what are white quartz surf beaches doing high up, hundreds of miles from the sea? Did you know that a city of gleaming white pyramids, towering palaces and broken fountains, has been discovered poking up through a tract of virtually unknown jungle in northern Brazil?
Did you know that from Mexico to Chile, thousands of ruins of towns and cities, buried under dense jungle or desert sands have never been explored? Have you heard the incredible true story of how thousands of city folk, sophisticated in commerce, became savages in the jungle! Who carved hundreds of rooms high into the wall of the Grand Canyon, 2,000 feet above the present river bed? And what mysterious “giants” built a city in Death Valley? What hovering heat source destroyed it? Did you know there are traces of ancient cities spread out from Florida, through the Mississippi and over into Arizona and New Mexico? That one of them, in Texas, had walls up to 49 feet high?
What do you know about the British city, then half the size of London, that vanished? Have you heard of the bells of churches that peal as the sea currents surge through the bell towers? Has anyone told you about the paved roads that go far out under the sea?
And what about a city the world forgot - encircled by cliffs, guarded by tall, lean, hawk-faced sentries, and accessible only through a split in the rock wall? The city where victims’ hearts were torn out, still beating, as sacrifice to the sun? Why did this bustling city die? And how was it re-discovered?
In a desert of southern Israel is the eeriest ghost town on earth and what happened to this once-bustling city? According to the book of Genesis five cities – Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zoboiim and Zoar sat on a fertile, watered plain near the present Dead Sea. In ancient times, the region was lush and green.
A rain of fire and sulphur, in which the land was smoking like a furnace", utterly destroyed the
cities and turned the countryside into desert. From ancient writings we learn that it was their great wealth which led the citizens to idleness and a disregard for those less fortunate than they. They were full of pride and haughtiness, thinking they were better than others.
WHY SO WEALTHY?
What was the source of their wealth? The mention of the “slime pits" (tar, asphalt, or bitumen pits) in the book of Genesis may provide the answer, since it was a most valuable commodity in those days, being used extensively all over the ancient world.
Even today, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, “In its various forms bitumen is one of the most widely distributed of substances.” In the ancient Ebla tablets from Syria, one tablet listing some purchases and the price for each item in silver, shows that the highest price was paid for bitumen. And the people of Sodom and Gomorrah had only to walk out into their "front yard" and gather it. They had no reason to engage in hard work. They had a "gold mine" there just for the taking.
The bitumen of Sodom and Gomorrah was easily accessed, because it was on the surface. Extraction required no oil wells. Have human attitudes changed? Today, oil is still regarded as a strategic resource justifying war. After all, a large proportion of our consumer products are derived from oil.
The deepest spot on earth dips down between Israel and Jordan, some 1,300 feet (400 metres) below sea level, to what is known as the Dead Sea.
In this lake no fish can live. The waters are 28 per cent salt, six times saltier than the ocean. Any careless fish that ventures from the River Jordan down into this evil lake chokes to death and is pickled. In this water you cannot sink. When you jump in, you feel as if you are being thrown out again. The scorching sun dries your skin almost at once. The thin crust of salt which the water has deposited on your body makes you look quite white.
You must rinse this off quickly, or risk severe burning. Virtually nothing grows here. The shore is utterly desolate... and in summer it bakes like an oven. It is hard to believe that this whole area was once like a beautiful garden, exceptionally fertile.
THE CITIES LOST
The New Testament writer Jude said that the ruins were visible in his day. Also in the first century, the historian Josephus wrote: “The traces (or shadows) of the five cities are still to be seen… (Wars of the Jews, Bk IV, ch. 8, Sec. 4)
It appears that in Josephus’ time the location of these dead cities was known and pointed to. But after the destruction of Judea and the dispersion of the Jews this knowledge was forgotten. For centuries travellers passed through this desolate waste, oblivious to the fact that the shapeless ruins close by were those of a city, so thorough had been the destruction.
In our day popular speculations have placed the ruins of these lost cities on the floor of the Dead Sea. In 1960, an American explorer, with the friendly cooperation of the Jordanian monarchy, attempted to make a search of the north, middle and south end of the Dead Sea bottom. He located, photographed and displayed a few poorly identifiable objects that he claimed to have found at depths and locations that are incompatible with the actual depths in the named locations.
The only certainties that emerged were that trees once grew on the land now covered by water. And there was no evidence of any remains of cities. But these efforts and published data have led many to incorrectly believe that the cities rest beneath the Dead Sea.
NOT UNDER THE SEA
However, the cities cannot lie under the sea and here’s why. In his statement, part of which is quoted above, Josephus says that:
1. The ruins were VISIBLE IN HIS DAY – ON THE “BORDERS” OF THE DEAD SEA, not hidden under it!
2. Bitumen was floating to the surface of the sea. This can only mean that the bitumen pits (of the old Vale of Siddim) were SUBMERGED – BUT NOT THE RUINS OF THE CITIES.
3. His description of the remains perfectly describes what can be seen today in these five ashen sites. They are visible on land. They are all whitish in colour; the shadows and shapes display all the visual characteristics of ancient cities and walls.
From surveying, mapping and dating the ancient shore lines in the salt caves of Mount Sedem [Mount Sodom], Hebrew University speleologist Amos Franklin concluded that the SEA LEVEL about 2,000 years ago was HIGHER than at present.
(A. Frumkin, “Holocene Environmental Change Determined from Salt Caves of Mount Sedem, Israel”. The Holocene, 1, 1991, pp. 191 200)
The significance of that find is simply this: If the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah were visible in the first century (when the sea level was HIGHER), then the same remains CANNOT be underwater today, when the sea level is lower.
UNDER THE DROWNED SOUTHERN PLAIN?
Could the ruins be under the water of the drowned plain to the south of the Dead Sea? The Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea, but there is no outflow from the sea. Thus, after the destruction of the cities, the level of the sea rose and eventually covered the plain to the south.
So scholars suggested hopefully that the cities lay beneath these shallow waters.
More recently, however, Jordan River waters have been siphoned off for irrigation purposes. This lowered the lake level and largely exposed the southern plain. But there was no sign of any
ruined cities there.
OR ARE THE RUINS TO THE EAST?
Could the remains of Numeira and Bab edh Dhra on the east side of the Dead Sea be the sites of
Sodom and Gomorrah? There are several reasons – if you believe the biblical account - that these sites do not qualify. One reason is simply this: they are not "in the plain" but instead on the plateau, some 500 feet above the plain. When William Albright and Melvin Kyle discovered the site of Bab ed Dra in 1924, they understood immediately that this site was not
a candidate for Sodom, Gomorrah or any of the cities of the plain.
(Albright, The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible, 1932, p. 136)
The largest site, Bab ed-Dra is just 10 acres, while Numeira is only 2! Not very large for
important cities. The evidence shows that these sites may have been cemeteries of the cities of the plain. A first century document tells us that the cities were ASHES. But the sites on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea are NOT ashen.
Careful examination of the remains of these show them to be typical of those destroyed in war. Archaeologists have found wood and other flammable materials in VARYING STAGES OF DECAY.
THE LOST CITIES FOUND
The identification was made in 1989. There is a mountain called Mount Sodom. This long, narrow mountain is a salt dome - made entirely of salt. Behind it is the squarish shape of an ancient city. Since the mountain is called SODOM, could this adjacent city have been SODOM?
In this region are five sites which share one thing in common. In all the world, only these five
sites share this feature. Within their perimeters everything has been totally burned to ASH. The second largest, as well as the best preserved of the sites, lies between Masada and the Dead Sea. Since Gomorrah was listed second in the biblical account, we conclude that these ashen remains qualify to be the remnants of Gomorrah. This must be the eeriest ghost town on earth. One experiences an oven by day, and at night the stark silence of death.
IT HAUNTS YOU
This whole region reeks of some ancient curse. I still remember vividly my first visit to this
haunting place. It was two hours before sunset. The lengthening shadows accentuated the ashen shapes rising above the desert. One could make out outlines of walls. From the start, I was struck by the contrast between the brown of the stony desert and the white of a city that had been turned to ashes. These were separate and most distinct from each other.
THE EERINESS
After a preliminary exploration, I located a spot on the ashes to lie down and sleep. That night, one might as well have been in a tomb – it was so deathly silent. Time after time I would drop off to sleep, only to almost instantly reawaken. The silence wakens you. Each time I would stare at the sky overhead and note that the stars hardly seemed to have moved.
Eventually the moon peered up above the horizon and crept slowly higher over the Dead Sea.
It was now casting eerie shadows on the remains around me ...structures composed totally of ash. It was weird, all alone under a full moon in this city of the dead. I could hardly wait for
sunrise! The sun popped up from behind the Jordanian hills, blazing hot. In no time I was perspiring.
Soon the plain was a furnace. In this desert the temperature could soar to 49 degrees Celsius in
the shade. This time of the year, the maximum time one could explore was about 30 minutes. Before dehydration began to take effect. This Dead Sea Valley is an immense oven, in which many have died of thirst in a matter of hours.
I would soon find myself searching for the rare spot of shade - a place to sit down... and drink... drink… drink… And it might be all of another half hour before one was ready to brave the direct sun again.
STRUCTURES
There was distinct form here. Remains of buildings, one of them five stories high. All ash now. This place had suffered tremendous destruction. Periodically there were openings in the walls,
entrances to the city, where you see actual “streets”. These wide avenues had structures on both sides, and were flanked by side streets. The large piles of ash made walking difficult down these streets.
Sodom and Gomorrah were Canaanite cities, according to the Bible. And the cities of the Canaanites were constructed with double walls, with buildings atop them. Just like these remains. And were these shapes once windows? One became aware that nothing one's eyes saw was stone... or earth… or sand. Not anymore. I was looking here at ash - ash from a tremendous fire. And there it was - the city wall - a double wall, with buttresses coming out from it at right angles. These had been built to strengthen the wall.
There were traces of sphinxes. And close by the clear remains of a ziggurat, or stepped pyramid. One of the interesting features of these sites is the layering present in ALL of the ashen material. Hundreds and thousands of layers are present, none very thick.
In very high temperature fires, and/or in very hot flames containing alkali metals or alkaline-earth materials (for example, sodium and calcium) the positive and negative ions attract and repel, resulting in this layering effect.
Samples taken for testing DID prove to be ASH!
THE CLINCHING EVIDENCE
On my fifth visit to the site, in answer to prayer RAIN HAD JUST FALLEN, would you believe – yes, rain in the desert! And there, exposed to the eye for the first time, was the clinching evidence - embedded in the ash were balls of burnt sulphur - probably millions of them!
Here was actual evidence that fire and brimstone (sulphur) once rained upon this area, just as the biblical book of Genesis says! As I bent to pick up a block of ash, I noticed small yellow balls embedded in it. Each ball was (or had been) surrounded by a black crystalline shell, and around that was a reddish-black ring in the ash.
Prying one of these out, I recognised it as sulphur. Smelling it, I KNEW it was sulphur. Here was the physical evidence. All through the ashen remains were round balls of sulphur encapsulated in burnt (crystalline) sulphur. As I scanned the site, at first not knowing what to look for, I saw these sulphur balls literally everywhere.
Before, I hadn't been able to see them because the loose ash had covered everything. But now the rain had washed away the loose ash and caused a section to fall way, revealing these sulphur balls embedded through the ashen material.
HAD ONCE BEEN ON FIRE
The reddish-black crystalline material surrounding the sulphur balls showed that they had once been on fire. Here was something that long, long ago had come out of the sky, burning. The ash had then smothered the ball and the fire had gone out. I struck a match. And now, 4,000 years later, here we were re-igniting and finishing off the fire. It seems that as these burning balls of brimstone fell from the sky, they set everything ablaze. And they burned right through everything. And as they burned, after a while, molten material surrounding the sulphur cut it off from the oxygen, preserving it in the interior of the ashes.
What we call a "burn ring" surrounds each capsule suggesting that the ash itself was vitrified. It appears that as the ashen material erodes and these sulphur balls become exposed to the surface, they fall out of their capsules. Thus they can be found lying all over the ground.
The biblical report claims that "the Lord rained brimstone and fire" on the cities. And we might ask, how does rain fall? In drops, of course! And this burning brimstone DID fall in drops, which landed in the pattern that rain would fall. This burned sulphur covers the remains of the
five cities discovered. The clinching evidence, I believe, is the pressed powder balls of brimstone inside burn capsules, and surrounded by burn rings embedded in ash – a phenomenon which, as far as can be determined, is found NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.
Which Bible? And Does it really matter?
YES IT DOES AND HERES WHY
Dean Burgon expressed it eloquently:
The Bible is none other than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the Throne! Every Book of it – every Chapter of it, – every Verse of it, – every Word of it, – every Syllable of it, – every Letter of it, – is the direct utterance of the Most High! Well spake the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of' the many blessed men who wrote it – The Bible is none other than the Word of God; not some part of it, more, some part of it, less; but all alike, the utterance of Him Who sitteth upon the Throne; – ABSOLUTE – FAULTLESS – UNERRING – SUPREME!
How you treat the Bible will, of course, depend upon how you regard it. If the Bible is merely a human book, you will treat it like any other book. You will think that the text can be altered to fit human theories of its origin. But if you believe that the Bible was divinely inspired and providentially preserved, you will have a different attitude to the text of the Bible.
We’d better face it, however: Since 1881, there has arisen doubt concerning 10 percent of the New Testament text in over 5,000 different places. And, in effect, since then there have been in existence two different New Testaments. Two? That’s right… the Authorised (King James) Version, and the Revised Version (and its successors).
HOW CAN WE KNOW THE GENUINE?
With so many different versions, how can we know which Bible version is the genuine article? (or doesn’t it matter?) First, may I say, there is a HUGE difference between the two Bibles.
The broad evidence of history will tell us which early text is correct. It then becomes easy to know which Bible we can trust. Firstly, please bear in mind that through history there have been two streams of Bible manuscripts.
1. ANTIOCHIAN
This manuscript family comes straight from the Apostles and the early Christians of Antioch. To date, this line has 5,641 manuscripts in support of it. Also, it has the broad evidence of history to support it. (a) (b) (c) It includes some of our oldest manuscripts. It includes the majority of manuscripts. These texts are in agreement with the copies held by the millions of persecuted believers who died to uphold their faith. (d) These manuscripts continued to be passed down by faithful Christians from generation to generation, in most of the Christian world. (e) (f) These manuscripts influenced one of the greatest events in Christian history - the Protestant Reformation. They are represented today by the Reina-Valera (Spanish), Diodati (Italian), and all the other Protestant Bibles published between the 1530s and 1600s. In English they are the Tyndale, Coverdale, Matthew's, Great Bible, Bishops Bible, Geneva and King James.
2. ALEXANDRIAN:
This stream comes from questionable sources. (a) It is represented by a mere handful of semi-complete “Bibles” from Alexandria, Egypt - a grand total of only 45. (b) It is rare that these manuscripts ever agree with each other. (c) These Alexandrian manuscripts fell into disuse, and many were relegated to a desert trash can. (d) After 1,000 years they were revived – and their history 12 points straight to the Roman Catholic institution. (e) These manuscripts became the Bible of the persecutors. (f) This Bible is represented by the modern versions, such as the NIV, NASV, ASV, RV, TEV, GNB, Living, NCV, RSV, NRSV, and the various Roman Catholic Bibles. A fierce battle rages between these two streams, the Alexandrian and the Antiochian… For a more thorough examination that will shed light on this very important subject get a copy of SORCERERS’ SECRET.
Joseph of Arimathea -beyond Jerusalem!
AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE OR PROVIDENCE- YOU DECIDE
Until recently, we never knew it existed but it has a clearly trackable history. As a reminder everything that follows is true history supported by solid archaeological exhibits. You can't get closer to an event than what’s recorded in this Article.
On April 27, 31 AD, in Jerusalem, the eyewitness author of the document found himself forced into a key role following the execution of Jesus Christ. Also fitting strangely into this bizarre chain of events is a well-known archaeological treasure, the Ark of the Covenant.
For 1,500 years, the Ark (and ceremonies associated with it) enshrined a prophecy concerning a coming world Messiah and what he was predicted to accomplish. First, why don’t I lay out for you the fast facts, then after that explain events in more detail? Here is the sequence of events, all of which we have been able to carefully verify... Guaranteed...
AMAZING EVENT SEQUENCE
1) 1446 BC:
In the saudi Arabian desert there is constructed priceless golden chest, which will ultimately bedeck Solomon's Temple in Israel . It is called Ark of the Covenant. Why? Because it enshrines the written Ten Commandments (the Covenant), the universal standard for human behaviour.
Sacred records affirm the reason why the Ark was made. Explained thus:
- Every person on earth has violated the Universal Law, and lives only by the Creator’s mercy.
-So, in a ceremony once a year the blood of a sacrificed animal is sprinkled on the Ark’s lid (called the Mercy Seat).
-This symbolic act functions as a "passion play" forecast of a promised future event. The essence of the prophecy is this: That the Creator has appointed a particular time in history when he will express his love by becoming man to suffer the penalty for every one’s wrongs. Hence the Mercy Seat, foretelling his act of mercy.
- As such, he will be known as the Messiah, the sacrificial "Lamb". By this once-for-all act of mercy, the sovereignty of the Law will remain unshaken, and every person who chooses to accept the Messiah’s death on his behalf will be pardoned and restored into harmony with the Creator.
2) 586 BC:
During the siege of Jerusalem by Babylonian invaders, the seer Jeremiah and Temple priests transfer the Ark of the Covenant to an underground cave near Skull Hill, about 270 feet outside the city walls. It will remain there for more than 2,500 years.
3. On April 27, 31 AD, Roman soldiers drill a hole into a rock ledge fronting Skull Hill about 270 feet outside Jerusalem for the placement of a wooden cross on which to execute Jesus Christ – unaware that immediately below is the cave containing the Ark of the Covenant.
4. During the crucifixion, a Roman spear pierces the side of Jesus. His blood sprinkles down through a vertical crack in the rock onto the Mercy Seat of the Ark in the cave below.
5. Jewish Council member, Joseph of Arimathea, a great uncle of Jesus, (according to Jewish Talmud records), sabotages the authorities' plan to toss Jesus' body into a criminal pit. Instead, he donates his own new tomb adjacent to Skull Hill for an honourable burial. As a result, he becomes a "marked man".
6. Several days later Jerusalem is astir with the news that hundreds of citizens have seen Jesus walking, talking, eating - alive again! The authorities rush to stifle the reports.
ANCIENT DOCUMENT: FROM ISRAEL TO SPOT X
7. The close family of Jesus write their own detailed memoirs of these events.
8. Early AD 35: Joseph and eleven close companions are arrested and exiled to perish at sea. Their precious documents go with them.
9. AD 37: They survive, and finally reach south west Britain, settling in Glastonbury. Here, with their records, they live in peace for about 6 centuries.
10. In 664, after Rome's Saxon mercenaries invade and conquer most of Britain, the Roman Catholic Synod of Whitby orders the guardians of the Glasstonbury records to surrender those “pagan non-Latin” documents for burning, and, giving up some, they continue to carefully guard the most precious of them.
11. They stay “underground” during centuries of persecution – until ultimately some documents are “smuggled” out of Britain, and into New Zealand, to Spot X. We do not know the precise date this occurred.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS: FROM ISRAEL TO SPOT X
12. In the 1980s and 90s, our associated teams in Jerusalem excavate in front of Skull Hill and survey the crucifixion and burial sites.
13. After this, two of the team, Jonathan and Josephine Gray, follow an impression to relocate our working base to New Zealand – and specifically to the same Spot X - not knowing its significance. We are not aware that the Guardians are there, nor that they or their papers exist.
POLITICAL REFUGEE: FROM AUASTRALIA TO SPOT X
14. In 1998, P, a Perth university lecturer discovers 11 months before the event that certain Australian government figures are involved in plotting the Bali massacre of Australians. After presenting a 5,000 page report to a Canberra official whom he trusted, P is forced to flee for his life from Australia to New Zealand – and ends up specifically (coincidentally?) in Spot X.
LINKS WOVEN AT SPOT X
15. In Spot X, P is thrown unexpectedly into close proximity to the Guardians, who allow him access to their precious 2,000 year old history records.
16. In Spot X, totally unaware of what P has just seen, we “stumble” into contact with P, and share with him our Jerusalem expedition pictures.
17. As P goes into retreat and reflects, firstly on the Guardians’ papers, then on our expedition findings, there leaps out at him an absolutely startling connection. Our expedition findings are amazingly related to what the documents speak about!
18. June, 2011: P excitedly contacts us to announce that his marriage of the Guardians’ documents with our expedition photos, not only clearly cross-confirms the New Testament books, but vindicates the discovery claims of our teams.
19. P informs us: “My contact with the Glastonbury group was through a third party, D, who had bought a house previously owned by a family in the group. But he has now left New Zealand. "Because of that, and because of the politically awkward nature of my attempted assassination [in Spot X], the door of opportunity into the group has probably been closed.
"Group members are secretive, ‘guarded’. They have survived for nearly 2,000 years by being careful – someone like me, with bullet holes through his windows, doesn’t fit in with a group wanting to keep a low profile.”
That should be the end of the story.
20. But now there occurs an amazing twist of events: Although D has left the area, by some wonderful providence his house has not sold, so he finds himself returning to Spot X.
Is this merely a coincidence – or something more? – because now, through a series of events, we “bump into” D! We find him to be friendly and hospitable.
But more importantly, through his graciousness we are granted access to the Guardians!
21. To our astonishment, the spokesperson for the group is already expecting me to phone her. And, by an absolutely amazing coincidence she already possesses my Ark of the Covenant book! While we have been dying to meet her, she has been trying to find out more about us! On our first visit, she handed over to us our own personal copy of the document she believes was written by Joseph of Arimathea himself!
Why is this such a valuable document?
1. Because it verifies in stunning detail the identity of the tomb we have been examining adjacent to the Jerusalem crucifixion site.
2. It also hits us with an independent eyewitness account regarding Jesus by one who was intimately acquainted with Jesus, preserved for 2,000 years quite separately from the Bible record.
THE ANTIQUITY OF THIS DOCUMENT
A careful investigation of all available evidence uncovers this early history of the document:
• During the period 27 to 31 AD, one of Jesus’ close acquaintances was placing on record, as they occurred, many of the things which he saw and heard.
• Late April onward, 31 AD: These eyewitness records were brought together and, in the Jerusalem house of the disciple John, the first words were written of a connected report.
• In the year 35, Joseph of Arimathea and his party were cast adrift by Saul of Tarsus to die at sea. The treasures they took with them included this scroll. The group survived, landing in France.
• In AD 37 this precious document, along with others, accompanied Joseph to Glastonbury in Britain.
• In AD 58, Joseph’s friend and colleague Aristobulus, going to labour in Wales, took with him a copy of this book.
SET ADRIFT
Let's flash back now to that fateful day in AD 35 when Joseph's party was cast adrift.
"Get in!" shrieks the uniformed officer. "There’s room for one more. " He nudges the woman off the quay. She stumbles, almost crashing, into the boat. Stabs of pain shoot up her leg as she strikes something. Marcella sighs... and looks around her. There is Joseph... Lazarus... and twelve others crammed in with her. She knows every one. All dear friends.
One of them smiles at her. Another boat comes in close, to tow them out to sea. Four strong men give their craft a push. From now on, they are castaways. Without oars or sails. At the mercy of the Mediterranean. Yet... not afraid. That is the wonderful part. Each is very calm and at peace. Adjusting to a more comfortable position, Joseph reflects on the events that have led to this moment...
IN A RICH MAN’S TOMB
Just four years earlier, on April 27, AD 31, that alleged renegade Yeshua (Jesus) had been publicly executed. Governor Pilate’s official report of the event was deposited in the imperial archives of Rome. The Jewish Council (the Sanhedrin) intended that Jesus’ body be tossed into the pit reserved for criminals and that his memory be erased. But their plan was thwarted by one of their own members - Joseph of Arimathea.
Of some reputation in Jerusalem, Joseph had become rich transporting tin and other metals from the Cornish mines of Britain to ports around the Mediterranean. He was one who could go privately to the Governor and make bold requests.
Pontius Pilate knew and respected him… and granted him leave to remove Jesus’ body from the cross and bury it in his own newly-cut tomb chamber. This was in accordance with existing Roman law that a near relative could attend to the burial of a crucified man. The historical Jewish Talmud records that Joseph was a great uncle of Jesus (younger brother of Mary's father). He was also a secret follower of Jesus. And after that rushed Thursday night trial of Jesus, Joseph was in shock. Then, when Jesus died the next afternoon, Joseph could remain silent no longer. He "came out into the open".
JOSEPH - A MARKED MAN
After Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus in his own tomb, he was a marked man. The enraged religious leaders wanted revenge. But due to his wealth and influence they had to move cautiously. Meanwhile, those who claimed they had seen Jesus alive again were causing a stir. Since the reported resurrection, they had become courageous. Strengthened with a courage they had not known before, they hurried into the streets and began speaking publicly about what they had seen. In the days that followed, thousands of local people, convinced by the evidence, made commitments to Jesus. They claimed the authorities had made an awful mistake.
This brought opposition from the Establishment. They arrested the speakers, threatened them, whipped and even imprisoned some of them. But the response was, “We cannot possibly give up speaking of things we have seen and heard." Why were these followers of Jesus so astonishingly successful? Because they were not discussing philosophical ideas which might, or might not, have some merit.
Not at all. They were reporting that they had actually seen Jesus alive again, talked with him, eaten with him, walked dusty roads with him. They swore that what they were saying was true.
THE SKULL HILL BUILDING
Apparently, there was sufficient public outrage against Jesus' execution, for the site to never be used as an execution site again. Eventually, the land was sold off – to the growing community of believers. It is likely that Joseph of Arimathea had a hand in the purchase of the site, and donated it to them. They constructed a building around the site, with the rock wall behind where Jesus’ cross was, as one of the walls. Into that back wall they fixed what appears to have been an altar.
Excavations at the Skull Hill site in the late 1970s and early’80s uncovered the stones in the walls of that early building. Pilate, the Roman governor, believed Jesus had been handed over to him because of the jealousy of the religious leaders. One has the impression that after Jesus’ death, public opinion aligned with Pilate’s assessment – so much so, that selling off the execution site to Joseph of Arimathea was seen as a necessary act of public penitence and compensation.
While some of the religious leadership was still convinced that their murder of Jesus was necessary, the general populace were outraged at what had happened. Even among the religious leaders, many came to believe that their leaders had murdered “the messiah”.
Rather than have everyone trek back and forth over to the tomb, to see the resurrection stone, the giant circular stone that had covered Jesus’ tomb entrance was moved to the new building at Skull Hill and placed in front of the cross holes.
(Jesus' cross was at the back, and there were three more cross-holes lower down, and closer to the road – two of which were used for crosses on the day Jesus died – i.e. for the two thieves).
The lower parts of the surrounding walls still exist. The stone was laid flat, either as part of the floor, or as a raised platform or “table”. It is hard to tell now just how high the stone was positioned relative to the surrounding floor. The stone is still there – as noted in my colleague Ron Wyatt’s first-hand archaeological report.
The excavation team were obliged by the official who approved the excavations, to restore the site to the condition it was in prior to the excavations.
So the stone, and remains of the walls from that first Christian meeting place, now sit buried below several feet of dirt. The Skull Hill site was used until, 3½ years later, one of the young deacons was dragged out of the city and publicly stoned to death for speaking about Jesus. In this, Saul of Tarsus (a member of the Sanhedrin) took a leading part.
A great rash of persecution now broke out in Jerusalem and followers of The Way were scattered everywhere. Saul now targeted Joseph of Arimathea.
Rather than bring down public anger on his own head for arresting such an influential figure, Saul decided to get rid of him quietly. Then he would not be seen as responsible for his fate.
So Joseph and eleven others close to him were cast adrift on a boat, from which oars and sails had been removed. Naturally, these exiles took their treasures with them, including what written records they and the family / relatives of Jesus had. Contrary to Saul's intentions, the castaways managed to survive this ordeal, landing eventually at Marseilles on the coast of Gaul (France).
Joseph of Arimathea continued with some of his party across the channel to Britain. Sailing around to the Glastonbury area of Cornwall, they were welcomed by residents who knew Joseph from his mining operations.
EVIDENCE IN ROYAL BRITISH ARHIVES
Twelve hydes of land were granted to them by Joseph's friend Arviragus. Still officially recorded in the British royal archives. we find these charters of land that were granted to them in AD 37 by Prince Arviragus of the Silures.
Today you are able to examine a record which contains remarkable details of the original charter. It is embodied in the Domesday Book of William I.
Their arrival in Britain seemed to relax them from their concerns. The mood changed – and they obviously looked on Glastonbury as their new permanent home. Their ancient scriptures were unpacked, and taught, buildings built, trees and crops planted.
Joseph died on July 27, 82 AD, at the grand age of 98.
SAFETY AND PROSPERITY
The Romans were unable to occupy the area which included Glastonbury. There was an established trading and shipping route operating between the Mediterranean and the British Isles – including both the Roman and non-Roman parts of the Isles.
The Roman administration used Gaul (France) as its route to and from Britain. Roman documents, soldiers and administrators travelled from Rome into Gaul, thence across what we today call the English Channel. Joseph of Arimathea’s documents were in the original Hebrew and Aramaic (and possibly Greek) at first, but were very likely translated into the local languages and later rendered into what became English over the intervening centuries.
There does not appear any history of harassment or persecution in Britain. The Glastonbury group seemed accepted and popular with both government , and the common British communities, as the message of The Way spread throughout Britain and Ireland.
In these early days, the people tended to see their faith as flowing direct from Jerusalem, and from the mother faith, Judaism. Such a perceived spiritual heritage did not sit well with the church power brokers in Rome.
ROME BACKS THE SAXON INVASION
After the power of the Roman Empire collapsed in Britain, the Saxons cast their eye toward the British Isles. Their invasions into Britain were supported, and often backed financially, from Rome. Basically, the Vatican (successor to the empire) was lending the money to build and fit out the ships for the Saxons. The deal was that once the Saxons had conquered Britain, the loans would be repaid, with interest, by the victorious Saxons.
Effectively the Vatican was using the Saxons as mercenaries to re-assert Roman control over Britain – because direct military control from Rome had been weakened, or effectively destroyed. Once the mercenaries (Saxons) had conquered much of Britain, spiritual control (from Rome) was to be imposed on the British Isles. Religion was to be conducted according to the language and rites of Rome, and not Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, the descendants of Joseph enjoyed freedom outside Rome’s reach.
SYNOD OF WHITBY: JOSEPH’S PAPERS BANNED
It all came to a crashing halt with the Synod of Whitby.
Rome had finally conquered Britain. The Synod of Whitby in 664 voted to standardize “Christianity” in Britain under Roman control – which would involve the use of Latin in the liturgy, acceptance of the papal authority of Rome, and of the Roman Catholic calendar.
That Synod pretty well determined the shape of mainstream religion practised in Britain until the Reformation. Steps were taken to enforce acceptance of the decision. All non-Latin writings were to be destroyed. Book burnings took place, and groups holding documents from an earlier period, in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, were ruthlessly persecuted.
Thanks to Joseph of Arimathea, various documents from the early days were stored at Glastonbury. In line with the post-Synod of Whitby orders, most of these were burned.
Book burning is something that appalls scholars – and many of the scholars and devout believers in Glastonbury were appalled at the orders to burn their books and records. They went through the motions of obeying orders, handing over some of
their papers to be destroyed. But they tried to hide and preserve some of their most valued treasures, including the scrolls Joseph of Arimathea had brought with him to Britain after Stephen’s murder in Jerusalem, over 600 years earlier.
Church and civil authorities would continue hunting for the remaining documents for much of the following 1200 years or so. The Glastonbury community was raided repeatedly.
Meanwhile, some of the faithful descendants of Joseph’s group (and their successors) blended into the community unrecognised, and hid the surviving scrolls.
TO LOCATION X
They stayed “underground” until some documents were “smuggled” out of Britain, and into New Zealand, to Spot X. This occurred in the 1800s, but we are unable to pinpoint the date.
Jesus’ apostle John wrote the book of Revelation on Patmos, at latitude 37 degrees north. The descendants and heirs of Joseph of Arimathea's Glastonbury group, settled in Spot X at latitude 37 degrees south. (We are protecting the privacy of the actual location.)
They stored Joseph's papers here, at that latitude. There may be more than a co-incidence in those two latitudes. The Guardians have largely lost touch with the original faith, so, in the special document they protected, they did not really know what they had.
Here, now, is the punch line: Just one archaeological team on earth was exclusively working at the Jerusalem crucifixion site. Two key team members then relocated to the ends of the earth, to discover that a 2,000-year-old eyewitness report of that very same event was waiting for them in that same spot. Now is that just a coincidence ...or is something bigger playing out here?
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUTH ABOUT THIS OLD DOCUMENT
Have you ever heard either of these claims?:
1. that the New Testament books about Jesus Christ are mythical, written centuries after the alleged events? Or that
2. they were edited / altered by some political or religious guys to suit an agenda?
This newly discovered document knocks those claims stone dead. What we have here is an original eyewitness account by a close associate of Jesus himself, preserved for almost 2,000 years - and preserved far away and independently from the biblical New Testament. Careful examination shows it to be penned by someone of integrity, who was intimately acquainted with the events and places, as only an on-the-spot eyewitness could be.
His reporting is oriented to Galilee, rather than Jerusalem. The casual details, tone, and first hand observations which are characteristic of the document show it to have been written by one who personally knew Jesus and his message
His descriptions of Nazareth, Jesus’ boyhood home village, and Joseph’s tomb in which Jesus was laid, match to the minutest detail what our archaeological teams were to physically uncover 2,000 years later.
What is the value of this document?
1. It proves the New Testament account of Jesus, including his reported rising from the dead, to be an honest and contemporary account of events.
2. It verifies our various teams' archaeological findings made in Israel during the 1980s and 1990s.
But the greatest wonder of all is that
(a) Joseph of Arimathrea’s ancient written memoirs, and
(b) the refugee who became our go-between to the Guardians, and
(c) our specific team that worked at the crucifixion-site
- should all independently converge at Spot X on the opposite side of the world, so that this unlikely discovery could now “happen”.
It makes you wonder, was Someone arranging that?
For more on the story of Joseph and his life in Britain including some interesting early Israelite history there. Get a copy of The Man who needed two Graves.
Men found in coal deposits
EMBARRASSING FOR EVOLUTION BUT TRUE
The late Richard Dawkins who was one of the world’s best-known atheist, had a loaded gun. He had set out to shoot dead the God of Creation. Dawkins’ loaded gun is the theory of evolution, which says we are all here by chance. Forget a personal God who created life on earth. Kill that dead. God doesn’t exist. That’s right, through random processes non-life turned into the first living cell. And that first simple cell had the amazing ability to reproduce itself - and ultimately turn into more complex organisms.
Then, through successive generations, changes in the traits of organisms brought about the variety of more complex life forms we have today. That’s it. No need of any intelligent programmer. Random evolution has got us here. And what’s the evidence? we should find that in the fossils (remains of earlier life) which lie buried in the earth’s rock strata.
Starting with the “simple” ones in the bottom layers, there should be a progress upwards into more complex remains at the top. For example, trilobites, a small water creature, lived 570- to 230 million years ago, then died out. So when trilobites are found in a rock, they are an index to the age of the rock.
Therefore, rocks are dated accordingly. Higher up in the sequence we should find coal formed more than 280 million years ago. And still higher up, dinosaurs. Because they evolved and lived 135- to 65 million years ago. And man appeared 5- to 1 million years ago. And so, the theory goes. A geological column chart is used to illustrate this.
Unfortunately though, THESE CHART TEACHES HOW TO FALSIFY EVOLUTION. Now, back to the late Mr Dawkins. He said , “I challenge anyone to submit ‘out-of-sequence’ fossil finds that disprove evolution.” This "good man" was so certain the above scenario is true, that in his book The Greatest Show on Earth he issues this challenge four times. And in the January 2010 issue of Investigate magazine, his NZ disciple Warwick Don said “evolution would be falsified if even one out of sequence fossil were ever found in the fossil record, e.g. a fossil ‘human’ in the Carboniferous… No such anachronistic fossils have ever been found.”
However, the truth is, that this so called Geological column as it is taught is observed nowhere in the world in one single location. It is a complete fantasy an amalgam of ideas that coalesce into a theory that attempts to “scientifically” refute a creator and establish as fact an order and flow to evolution theory.
And unfortunately for the ardent evolutionist, in Answer to the above challenge many men have been found IN EMBARRASSING PLACES. You may be surprised to know that men have been found in coal mines all dying in a violent manner ending up with forests of trees washed over them – which eventually turned to coal… which in recent times have been mined. They are all in “THE WRONG PLACES” according to the geological column.
This article may shock you or please you and perhaps even anger or thrill, for which I make no apologies for the truth. After all we are seekers of truth and desire honesty.
According to the well-entrenched theory of evolution, we should find a gradual progression of life forms, starting from the bottom of the earth’s rock layers. The so-called “simple” ones are expected to be found at the bottom. Trilobites, we’re told, lived 570- to 230 million years ago, then died out. So when trilobites are found in a rock, they are said to be an index to the age of the rock. And rocks are dated accordingly.
The story goes that coal was formed more than 280 million years ago. And much later, dinosaurs evolved. They ruled the planet 135- to 65 million years ago. Man allegedly appeared 5- to 1 million years ago. That’s how the story goes.
For years I have insisted that mankind, dinosaurs, and every other life form started out on earth together just as indicted in Genesis the first book of the Bible. And that the Cambrian, Triassic, Carboniferous, and so on, are NOT geological “ages” at all and that there was NO succession of new types of life evolving one after another and that the stratified burial of all life forms, including man, occurred mostly during one brief, but enormous cosmic disaster, the flood in Noahs day.
If my thesis (and there are many scientist who refute the evolutionary theory with sound scientific analysis) is true, we can expect to find human remains in ALL LEVELS of strata, yes man in the Cambrian, man in the Jurassic, man in the Carboniferous, and so on.
AN EVOLUTIONIST TELLS US HOW TO FALSIFY EVOLUTION
In the January issue of Investigate, evolutionist Warwick Don said “evolution would be falsified if even one out of sequence fossil were ever found in the fossil record, e.g. a fossil ‘human’ in the Carboniferous…” He adds, “No such anachronistic fossils have ever been found.”
FLY IN THE OINTMENT
A fossil human skull has been found in Carboniferous strata near Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Ed Conrad found a petrified skull embedded in rock between coal seams. And, other human parts as well. In good faith, Conrad went to the prestigious Smithsonian Institute and asked them to examine his specimens. He asked for an examination of cell structure.
His request was ignored but he pressed them and pressed them. Time passed and they offered him weak excuses. Pitifully weak in fact. Was this because they knew that in one fell swoop, authentication of Conrad’s discovery would decimate the evolutionary theory of man's origin? Ed Conrad continued to battle the “super” scientists to get his discovery examined. And for 27 years they kept giving Conrad the royal run-around. Just “rocks,” they said. Human remains could never be found in coal.
In desperation, Conrad brought the matter to the attention of Gus Yatron, his congressman, in 1984. Ed pulled no punches with Yatron, accusing the Smithsonian of a lack of integrity concerning the honest investigation of his specimens. Yatron's office then diplomatically contacted the Smithsonian on Ed's behalf and, in response, was promptly greeted with an extremely sarcastic, hostile letter from the office of its top administrator, Secretary Robert McCormick Adams.
Banning, deceit and vilification. Can you believe that an honest man could be subjected to all this? If such finds cannot be ignored, they will be denied, discredited or yes, even physically destroyed. I have collected enough evidence now to fill a book.
BRAVE SCIENTIST INTERVENES
In any case, the Smithsonian thought they had killed the investigation. How little did they guess that a brave scientist on the other side of the world would come bursting into the picture! This Chinese scientist was to spend $50,000 of his own money to get to the truth of it. Acquiring specimens from Ed Conrad, he examined through microscopes more than 30 thin sections cut from Ed Conrad’s “rocks” .
First these were taken to the geology department of National Taiwan University. Then also, on March 28, 2008, the fossil skull was scanned by the Computed Tomography system of Alberta Research Council in Canada.
This fossil and more than 20 others from the same Carboniferous strata have now been thin sectioned and more than 1,000 microscopic pictures taken.
Examinations have been made through a stereo-microscope, a digital microscope, a transmitted-light microscope and a scanning electron microscope. Very thorough, if you ask me.
First, he asked, Is this A ROCK OR A FOSSIL? And the result? The examination showed, for a start, that its computed- tomography images don’t look like any rock.
Images of the object show numerous remains of bone cells (osteocytes), branching blood vessel remains, Haversian canals and osteons; transverse section remains of blood vessels; red blood cells; degraded remains of neurons, neuroglial cells and nerve fibers, muscle fibres; and various fossilized tissues.
It contains fossilized nerve cells, dendrites and somas of brain cells, that exist only in the central nervous system and which are not found in any organ except in brains. These remains point to a calvarium fossil that once contained brain tissue. The blood vessels in the brain have carbonized into shiny bituminous coal/anthracite.
No rocks or plants contain all at the same time the remains of neurons, neuroglial cells, bone cells, red blood cells, Haversian canals, osteons and blood vessels.
Pictures of the other Carboniferous fossils likewise show Haversian canals and osteons, which are distinguishing features of fossil bone micro- structures. They include organs such as human liver, fingers, penises, testes, kidneys, limbs, and so on.
His next question was, Is this ANIMAL OR HUMAN?
All crania have different, distinctive shapes among different orders of animal. Human skull caps have a unique shape from mammalian skull caps. The skull’s inner cavity has a capacity of 1,025 c.c.- 1,665 c.c. The No. 1 distinction of human skulls lies in their large cranial capacity. No animal has a skull that remotely matches human skulls in cranial capacity, cranial shape and cranial size.
The analysis shows that this subject fossil matches human skull caps in cranial size, cranial capacity, and cranial shape. Thus, it can be identified as a human calvarium fossil by forensic experts on human skulls. One such expert is Mr Wilton Krogman, who has physically examined the fossil and confirmed it to be a human calvarium fossil.
He finally asked, Is it CARBONIFEROUS OR MODERN?
Portions of the fossil, including some of the fossil’s blood vessels have turned into coal. The skull was discovered near Mahanoy City between the coal veins. The Pennsylvania state government’s geological unit has confirmed in writing that fossils found near Mahanoy City are all 305 (+/- 7) million years old. For over 27 years, the owner of the fossils, Ed Conrad, has attested many times that all his fossils were found between coal veins near Shenandoah and Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.
That is in the anthracite region, the only one in the U.S. proper. It’s a most-studied geological area of the Carboniferous age. That is to say any animal fossil found there must have lived there in the Carboniferous age.
I have addressed this issue at length with Ed Conrad, who for 27 years has battled the entrenched “experts” to come clean about the discoveries.
OTHER CARBONIFEROUS HUMAN FOSSILS
Among Conrad’s other fossils are a coalified axe handle as well-made as those sold on e-bay. A coalified piece of limb cut flatly across soft flesh and hard bone, as if with a sharp knife, and a fossilized human finger complete with skin tissue, finger nail, ligaments, and the middle phalanx.
Twenty medical experts have pronounced this as a genuine human finger.
This is not good news for the evolution theory and it gets worse. Not only have numerous other human remains been discovered in Carboniferous strata – such as a complete skeleton in Carboniferous (Macoupin County, Illinois – The Geologist). But also in EVERY other so-called geological age for example: A human skull was found in Cretaceous strata supposedly, 70 million years old. (Saturday Herald, Iowa City, April 10, 1867). A human skeleton in Silurian rock (Franklin County, Missouri – Scientific American); Tools, inscriptions and hundreds and hundreds of human skeletons in Cretaceous, Triassic, Devonian, Ordovacian and Cambrian.
IS MAN OLDER THAN EVOLUTION SAYS OR ARE DINOSAURS AND COAL MUCH YOUNGER?
Now this may come as a shock to you, but the methods used for dating coal, dinosaurs, and so on, are just as flawed as the evolution blunder!
These discoveries are a matter of record. There are several hundred discovery reports like those in this article and as a matter of fact Scientific American is full of them.
Most of this evidence was discovered by reputable scientists in the 19th and early 20th centuries, before the modern truncated timescale of human evolution became firmly established. Some of the old county and regional history books of the early days contain real gems because the people were not subjected to a rigid indoctrination about evolution and were astonished about what they found and honestly reported it.
However, they are not well known today. In far too many cases, the objects themselves have been mislaid, inadvertently tossed away, or sent to some museum and stored out of sight and forgotten. But such finds were made not just in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They are being made even today but their acceptance raises insoluble problems. And despotic scientific prejudice rules the day.
Therefore, discoveries nowadays never make it into the pages of any respectable academic journal. The result is that modern students of paleoanthropology are not in possession of the complete range of scientific evidence concerning human origins and antiquity.
Rather most people, including professional scientists, are exposed to only a carefully edited selection of evidence supporting the currently accepted theory. Even just one man found in the Carboniferous falsifies the evolution theory.
SO WHY DOES THIS SCAM GO ON?
The truth is, many honest but misinformed scientists are caught up in the system – while their mentors deliberately suppress this information. After all, careers, reputations and funding are at stake. So, if the facts do not agree with the favoured theory, then such facts, even an ‘imposing array’ of them, must be thrown out of the window.
Full credit though needs to be given to the scientists, who have confirmed that the scientific elite are members of a pseudo establishment, who have not sought truth about man’s origin and ancestry, but have gone along with a colossal lie to protect their vested interests.
As more of this material circulates and the honestly mistaken hear the truth, they will have a choice to either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. For information about men found in embarrassing location get a copy of the following.
Toppling Evolution One Fallacy at a Time
IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH. Ge 1:1
I cannot find one fossil of any creature that shows a half-and-half evolution into another creature. But I am sure there are some, there has to be doesn’t there?
Well perhaps not, actually there’s none and never has there been. There have been many frauds but never a real example and there never will be. As a French scientist once said evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
One disappointed authority actually confessed: “A century of digging since Darwin’s time has only made their absence more glaring… Paleontologists have devoted whole careers to looking for examples of gradual transitions over time, and with a few exceptions THEY HAVE FAILED.” (Newsweek, March 29, 1982, p.42)
Just as depressing was a statement by Dr David Kitts, Zoologist and Head Curator of the Department of Geology, at Stoval Museum. Kitts was a well-known evolutionary paleontologist. He confessed: Despite the bright promise that paleontology provides a means of “seeing” evolution, it has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious of which is the presence of “gaps” in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them… (David B. Kitts, Ph.D, Evolution, vol.28, September 1974, p.467)
Paleo-ecologist and Geologist, Dr Ronald West, Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at Kansas State University, said Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so, we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory. (Ronald R. West, Ph.D, “Paleontology and uniformitarianism.” Compass, vol. 45, May 1968, p.216) And there was Dr Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in London. There are “no transitional fossils,” he admitted. “I will lay it on the line – there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.” (Personal letter, written 10 April 1979, from Dr. Colin Patterson to Luther D. Sunderland; as quoted in Darwin’s Enigma by Luther D. Sunderland. San Diego, U.S.A.: Master Books, 1984, p.89)
The sad fact for evolutionary theory is that after 146 years since Darwin the evidence IS in. But it is not what the evolutio!” n theory predicted.” The handwriting had been on the wall for a while. Even 50 years ago, Dr. Norman D. Newell of Columbia University had been lamenting: Experience shows that gaps which separate the highest categories may never be bridged in the fossil record. Many of the discontinuities tend to be more and more emphasised with increased collecting. (Norman D. Newell, “The Nature of the Fossil Record,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, April 1959, 103(2), pp.264-285)
The chain of evolution needs links but almost no one was telling the public they don’t exist. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and there are no links. All we have is a crafty con.
Niles Eldridge, curator of New York’s Natural History Museum made this comment “The fossil record we were told to find in the past 120 years [since Darwin] does not exist.” (New York Times, November 4, 1980). That was 25 years ago and nothing has changed. If the fossils do not give evidence of evolution, there remains no evidence that life has evolved, at all. There had to be a solution created for this embarrassing lack of evolution evidence from the fossils. But what was it? “punctuated equilibrium”.
This theory suggests that perhaps the major evolutionary changes occurred quite rapidly, while the population levels were low. So, the gaps might be due to such periods of ‘explosive evolution’, which occurred so rapidly they left no trace in the fossils. In other words, extremely fast evolution occurred in small isolated communities. So, it was NOT recorded in the fossil strata.
In that case, evidence should not even be expected. And that’s because no one can find a shred of physical evidence for it. Frankly, it’s an argument from silence. You just must trust it by faith. And no experiments have been able to show any means by which evolutionary jumps can occur. And to be frank a theory which predicts it will have no evidence hardly qualifies as a scientific theory. Punctuated equilibrium doesn’t even have a mechanism. I found the promoters themselves admitting that. We are asked to believe that evolution occurs so slowly today that we cannot detect it, and so rapidly in the past that we cannot detect it!”
A report in Science News, 28 June 1986, mentioned how the AIDS virus was shown to mutate up to a million times faster than the DNA for other organisms, surely this could be an example of punctuated equilibrium theory. In one year the virus went through the equivalent of 1 million years of mutation at the usual rate. But even with the mutation process speeded up a million times, the AIDS virus only ‘evolved’ into another form of AIDS virus and nothing else. This observed evidence actually refuted the idea of punctuated equilibrium.
Mutations do not add more DNA and do not create another creature, spiders that have been observed to mutate and have experienced a “selection” process, or “adaptation” into the forms we have today, remain spiders. And the same applies with everything else.
To discover more sound science that topples evolution and supports the Bibles claim of a Creator, get a copy of TOPPLING EVOLUTION.
The Biblical Joseph found in Egypt
FAIRY TALE OR LEGEND? NO WAY -TOO MUCH EVIDENCE FOR THAT
As always the clincher in so many cases, Archaeology , Cultural Anthropology and Etymology come together to verify another Biblical truth in History. The great Joseph of scripture has been discovered imbedded firmly in Egyptian history. The name “Imhotep”, in ancient Egyptian, is translated to mean “the voice, or mouth, of Im. However, there is no record of a god in Egypt called “Im”. But in the Biblical Scriptures is the God “I Am”. “And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.” (Ex. 3:14) “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:58)
God Told Moses, “Tell the Pharaoh that “I Am” has sent you”. It appears that “I Am” was the name by which the Egyptians had known Joseph’s God. Could “Im” have been “I Am”? The name that the Bible says was given to Joseph by the Pharaoh, “Zaphenath-paneah”, has been translated by some to mean, “the God lives; the God speaks”. Since we do not fully understand the meaning of the Egyptian “Hotep”, it is quite possible that the translation of Imhotep, “The voice of I am”, is identical to the biblical name of Joseph, “the God lives; the God speaks”.
Physician Imhotep is the earliest physician whose historical records survive. And although Joseph isn’t mentioned as being a physician, the Bible gives one very important clue to this: “And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.” (Gen. 50:2) Here the physicians are specifically stated to be under Joseph. But later, when Imhotep became established as the “god of healing”, it is the manner in which he healed that ties him directly to Joseph.
Ancient Greek writings mention a great sanctuary at Memphis where people came from everywhere to seek cures from Imhotep. They would pray to him, make offerings and then spend the night in this sanctuary, which was a sort of Lourdes of ancient Egypt. While they were sleeping, the god Imhotep was said to come to people in their dreams and cure them.
Is there a connection between Joseph and dreams? Remember, it was Joseph’s dream about him and his brothers binding sheaves, that was one of the causes of their great jealousy of him, after he related to them that he had dreamt their sheaves stood up and bowed to his. “And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? Or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words… Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.” (Gen.37:8,20)
In the records, Imhotep was associated with doing good by means of dreams. So was Joseph. The biblical account also speaks of Joseph’s wisdom: “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art.” (Gen.41:39) Again, the evidence points to Imhotep. Imhotep was also revered for his wisdom.
In several inscriptions from much later times, reference is made to the “words of Imhotep”. For example, in Song from the Tomb of King Intef, we read: “I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hardedef…”, and it goes on to explain that their “sayings” were recited in his day. It could be that after Joseph’s death, others copied his wise sayings and took credit for them, perhaps adding a bit of their own and changing things to suit them. As these sayings were passed down through several generations, instead of being attributed to Imhotep, they were attributed to Ptahotep, “the voice of” the Egyptian creator, “Ptah”.
At the end of these Egyptian manuscripts, the writer states that he is near death, having lived 110 years, and that he received honours from the king exceeding those of his ancestors, in other words, he received the most honours ever given a man by a Pharaoh. Notice the biblical parallel concerning Joseph: “And Joseph lived 110 years.” (Gen.50:22)
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IN A COFFIN IN EGYPT
Are Miracles Possible
SUPERSTITION OR FACT
Some doubt some believe I have experienced both. As a young adult I was an atheist who believed that science had proved that God did not exist and for me at that time miracles where certainly fiction. But by the time I reached 29 my life changed and I experienced my first miracle. I would call it the greatest miracle that anyone can ever experience and praise the Lord and bless His holy name everyone can experience this miracle. It is the miracle of the new birth described by Jesus in John 3. And it offers hope in this life and the one to come. Following this miracle I have experienced many , many more as a disciple of Christ.
At times we hear of astonishing things that occur to people. Sometimes such accounts almost strain credibility. However, events that we might call miracles are constantly occurring. Whether one accepts them as such depends upon one’s attitude concerning the existence of God. If one accepts the reality of a Almighty being who created us and directs the universe, it may make sense. What we might call "supernatural" could be perfectly natural to a Supreme Being, quite natural to His power. If He created laws of nature, might He not override such laws? Using even natural phenomena in a "supernatural" way? Could I suggest that even when supernatural events find explanation in the framework of understood natural phenomena, does that lessen the divine, miraculous wisdom behind them? May I also suggest that much that we attribute to chance is due the all-wise and loving providence of our Creator, who works circumstances together for the best good of those who commit their lives to follow His ways and place their trust in Him.
And in addition to this and further to the point for those who have been reconciled to this Almighty God through His generous and precious son the Lord Jesus Christ, There is provision for can in all honesty be called the miraculous. I have experienced many such examples in may own life.
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Nibiru populated by a super race!
GIVE SUDDEN IMPETUS TO OUR “EVOLUTION”
It’s the kind of story you might want to believe. A certain popular writer, describing himself as an expert on ancient texts, tells us that far out in our solar system, beyond the planet Pluto there is an outer planet called Nibiru.
The story goes that Nibiru was populated by a super race. Those extraterrestrials were known as Annunaki. The Anunnakis’ own planet was dying. So the Anunnaki came to Planet Earth to attempt a rescue of their planet. The gold on Planet Earth was needed to create a shield for preserving Nibiru’s dwindling atmosphere. One can actually feel sorry for the Anunnaki.
Fortunately, this Planet Nibiru, in its orbit, came close to Planet Earth. A group of 50 astronauts from Nibiru, with their leader called Enki, splashed down in the waters of the Persian Gulf. Some Anunnaki were sent to mine gold in Africa. When the toil became unbearable, Enki ‘created’ ‘primitive workers’ by mixing the genes of male Anunnaki with the eggs of early female hominoids, to bring about Homo sapiens - you and me.
This sudden impetus given to our “evolution” explains how the Sumerian civilization sprang up suddenly, fully developed, with no evidence of a primitive beginning. You can credit these extraterrestrials for jump-starting it, says this popular writer. And oh yes, there’s something else. The orbit of Nibiru (also labelled Planet X by some) brings it into our solar system every 3,600 years. It will return to Planet Earth very soon.
Well, doesn’t that awaken your interest? In any case, this gentleman, whom we shall call Mr S assures us that this is what the clay tablets say. And this topic has been heavily promoted by him. In contrast to the airy speculation of von Danicken, Mr S claims to be a scholar. He graduated in economics. But he claims to be an expert in ancient Sumerian texts and Hebrew.
HE HAS A FEW THINGS RIGHT
From my years of independent research, I knew for certain that Mr S did have some things correct – one of which was that the Sumerian culture began suddenly, fully developed, with no evidence of a primitive beginning. As you know, we are told these days that our forebears were primitive. Talk of high technology in the ancient world is rare. For this reason, I felt a measure of rapport with Mr S.
This caused my customary cautious approach to soften toward him. And I did enjoy reading his books. So, I let down my guard down just a little to give those “facts” in his books due respect – in particular, the claimed fact that certain ancient texts existed to back up his story. Accepting his claim also to be a responsible scholar, I went as far as to quote him a couple of times in my book Dead Men’s Secrets.
As I said, Mr S did have a number of things right:
1. That a Global Flood had devastated the world in the past. (See the evidence for that event in my book Surprise Witness.)
2. That there was a civilization after the Flood that started in Mesopotamia, from descendants of the Flood survivors. (See the archaeological evidence in my book The Corpse Came Back.)
3. That Sumerian civilization started at a high level. (See Dead Men’s Secrets, chapter 2.)
4. And, of course, that such an advanced early civilization needs explaining. Also, I had no problem with his belief in another planet beyond Pluto. In fact, on August 1, 2005, scientists announced they had discovered one, unofficially called 2003 UB313. At about 3,218 kilometers across, it is bigger than Pluto. But this is not the planet Nibiru, that Mr S is talking about. For one thing, it does not have the orbit he describes.
Many can be lulled into a belief like this due to trust. About 350 BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle classified the spider as having six legs. And for the next 20 centuries everyone believed the spider had six legs. No one even bothered to count. After all, who would dare challenge the great Aristotle? Well, along came Lamarck (1744-1829), the outstanding biologist and naturalist.
He carefully counted the legs of the spider. And guess how many legs he counted? Exactly eight! The myth that had been taught for centuries was destroyed because Lamarck bothered to count. Myths are easily accepted as truth if they have been around for a time. We are about to shatter a myth. And I invite you along for the trip.
HERE’S SOME STARTLING NEWS FOR YOU
What you are about to discover may shock you. It may anger you. Or you may be relieved that you did not fall into the trap. It was not easy for me to prepare this book and name names. Especially after endorsing something for so long. Please tell me. If you suddenly discovered that something you were passing on to others was a hoax, what would be the honourable thing to do? Yes, you know the answer to that. After all, you have to look at yourself in the mirror tomorrow, don’t you? Okay, I have some startling news for you. And why do I bother? Because I don't like documents manipulated to promote false claims.
Suppose I was a lawyer. Wouldn’t I be professionally obligated to inform you if someone was giving you bad legal advice? If I were a building inspector, wouldn’t I owe you the truth if I knew the house you were about to purchase had termite- weakened foundations? If I was an accountant, wouldn’t you expect me to advise you if a neighbor's tax advice could put you in jail?
Okay, I'm none of those things, but I'm trying to provide the same service in my areas of expertise. Increasingly, people ask me about Planet X, the Anunnaki and the Nephilim. Did extraterrestrials from a distant planet called Nibiru (Planet X) come to earth and crossbreed with creatures here? And does Nibiru’s orbit bring it into our solar system every 3,600 years? It’s coming soon, we’re told!
Among today’s many confusing claims, how can one sift fact from fiction? That’s an important question. Here is my answer: Test everything. Demand solid evidence.
Because many self-proclaimed scholars are out there, who either,
a) don’t understand their topic, or
b) are faking data.
Why is this occurring?
Here are three reasons
1. Some writers know that if they can catch public attention with a sensational theory, they can become very rich. They are not necessarily malicious. It’s just that their love for money or fame is greater than their love for truth. Just put out a sensational story and you get peoples’ attention.
2. Some others are just plain mischievous. These con men wish to confuse and deceive the public. It puts them on a high to successfully prey on unsuspecting, gullible persons. 3. Another may mull over an idea that takes his fancy, then toy with it until he becomes convinced it might be true. After some sloppy research, with half the truth in his hands, he reaches a wrong conclusion – and then goes public. These may all be brilliant intellectuals. But the first two have an honesty problem.
3) Is simply naivety.
Now, what about this Planet X story? I shall not judge the motive of the man who invented this theory but the truth is, WE’VE BEEN HAD!
For the whole story see just Sitchin Fiction.
In the beginning One God and One Tongue
SAYS THE EVIDENCE
In the remote canyons of the Pergatoire River, just south of La Junta, Colorado, researcher Gary Vey was examining some very old petroglyphics. What was soon discovered was that these petroglyphs at Colorado, in the USA, not only demonstrated an ancient alphabet of various symbols but also, amazingly, they were virtually identical to others found in the Negev desert of Israel, in South Australia, in Yemen, in Chile and in the British Isles!
After numerous deciphering attempts, translations were eventually made with success through an old Hebrew dialect. The Colorado alphabet consisted of 22 basic, distinct geometric shapes and some variations. Vey has termed it “The First Tongue”. Translations of similar petroglyphs by another team in Australia proved that they originated with the same root culture and ascribed to the same rules of grammar and symbols. Likewise with the petroglyphs in Israel’s Negev desert, documented by Dr James Harris, during the Harvard expedition in 1994. These, along with those on other continents, hinted at an original common language. In addition, to this discovery lengthy studies by Irish etymologist John Philip Cohane have established by a study of root words that there were anciently TWO MAJOR DISPERSALS of people from the Middle East. (John Philip Cohane, The Key. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970)
Originally there was one global language
Cultural Anthropology can verify this fact as I shall now demonstrate. If we were to trace the footsteps of the first migration wave, we would discover that it has left its traces in just ONE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. This fact that the whole world once spoke the same language survives in the racial memory of many peoples. A fragmentary Sumerian tablet copied by the Oxford cuneiformist Oliver Gurney speaks of a time when “the whole universe” spoke “in one tongue.”
The epic tale Enmerker and the Lord of Araita, published by Professor S.N. Kramer, of the University of Pennsylvania, records that all mankind spoke one and the same language until Enki, the Sumerian god of wisdom, confounded their speech. The idea that there was a time when all men spoke the same language is found also in ancient Egyptian and Indian writings.
Likewise, the Popul Vuh, a book of the Central American Maya, records that “those who gazed at the rising of the sun [the ancestors who formerly lived eastward of the Americas]… had but one language… before going west.” And the book of Genesis records that “all the earth was of one language, and of one speech.” (Genesis 11:1) Amazing evidence of this “First Tongue” is documented in the book, The Corpse Came Back. Chapter 8.
The second dispersal by contrast, was an apparently a forced dispersal from a central point in the Middle East and this has left its traces in MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. This amazing fact, discovered only in our time, reminds us of an intriguing claim made in the biblical book of Genesis. It states that there were TWO DISPERSALS after the Great Flood.
1. An initial rapid dispersal from what is today eastern Turkey, at a time when there was one language over “the whole earth”.
2. Then later, a sudden language disturbance in Mesopotamia which resulted in the inhabitants being scattered “abroad upon the face of all the earth.” And this is precisely what archaeology is now discovering!
A Sudden confusion of languages
Numerous ancient traditions concur that:
a) Everyone spoke a single language at first.
b) The various languages did not arise capriciously, independently.
c) In a single dramatic event the one original language became suddenly confused.
d) Then from one central point the people were scattered to the ends of the earth.
Interestingly, all three branches of humanity recall this. Various peoples, such as the Mexicans, the Chaldeans, the Hindus, the Greeks, the Chiapa of the Americas, Australian Aboriginal tribes, and the Fijians, to name a few, were discovered with a tradition concerning this event in which each tribe received a new language. Evidently, this is not just some so called biblical fairytale. As some may like to siggest. No, this ancient event has been burnt into the racial memory of mankind as a whole. Language did not just “evolve” No society is known at any point in history which did not have a fully developed language? (“Encyclopaedia Brittanica”, 15th ed., Macrop., vol.19, p.1033).
We find no support at all for any kind of evolutionary development of language. There is NO EVIDENCE nor any EXPLANATION for such an assumed evolution of language. The fact is, evolution cannot in any meaningful manner account for one language, much less hundreds of languages. In any case, who had time to formulate grammar when we were all supposedly running around simply trying to survive the next few minutes of life? Would it surprise you to learn that the most primitive tribes have been found to possess the most complex languages?
The earliest known and taught civilizations such as Sumeria, Egypt and the Indus Valley arise later and it was as a consequence of the sudden confusion of languages that occurred with the second dispersal. The evidence shows that the Egyptian, Sumerian and other cultures that sprang up in Mesopotamia (close to the language confusion incident) did so soon after the dispersal.
They did not arise until after this language break-up incident. What’s important is this: that originally there was one language and it contained a unified alphabet.
Another fascinating feature in this, is that all attempts to translate the “First Tongue” fail, until the key was found in an old Hebrew dialect? Apparently, that “First Tongue” and that old Hebrew tongue shared the same roots! This was incredible! Did that mean that the language that the whole world originally spoke was something akin to old Hebrew?
Now you may be interested to know what other things those earliest people shared on a global scale? There are a many, for example the meanings of the star names and the constellations were almost identical the world over and that they’ve not changed much since despite the intended meaning changing significantly. see Sting of the Scorpion
What about religion? have you ever heard someone say it just evolved? Or that as man evolved so did his philosophy on life, from magic, to religion, to science? And that from an initial primitive worship of many gods, religion evolved to the idea of just ‘one God’ (monotheism)?
Truly, this is what many are taught today in places of learning. Sadly, it’s a con job, to get evolution theory accepted. The truth is that there is not a shred of evidence for this supposed progression from magic, to religion, to science. On the contrary, archaeology shows us there was science from the very start of human presence on earth. Please see Dead Men’s Secrets.
That’s the opposite from what the evolution theory propagates. Yes, sound science proves that there was a original culture, with the same language and religion initially
So, what is the truth about religion? Well, researchers on six continents have been discovering script in mankind’s “First Tongue” . And that the content of the translations, although not complete, suggests a single culture and religious belief system, worldwide.
What has been discovered is that two common petroglyphs represent the names of deity - “EL” and “YAH”. “EL” represents the abstract form of deity - that which cannot be comprehended by man, while “YAH” is the Creator. Both concepts represent a single deity - One God - but recognise the aspects of “knowable” and “unknowable” deity.
A successful translation has been made of the entire top row of the Colorado inscriptions, reading, “YARE HA EL”, or “PRAISE THE LORD”. Yes Monotheism at first and this indicates a monotheistic religious belief at that early time when there was still a global language. It hints at an original faith inherited from the earliest ancestors.
The evidence shows that MONOtheism lay at the root of all religions, until shortly after 2000 BC – when monotheism began to degenerate into pantheism, polytheism and animism. Careful archaeologists and historians (Horn, Faber, Rawlinson, Waddell and Budge, to name a few) insist from their discoveries that the earliest Sumerians, Iranians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Indians were monotheists.
They recognised supremely only one God. They knew also that there was only one Seed, on whom the hopes of the world were founded. In almost all nations, not only was a great god known under the name Zero, or Zer (“the Seed”), and a great goddess under the name of Ashta, or Isha (“the woman”). But the great god Zero is frequently characterised by some epithet which implies that he is “the only One”.
Popular theories cannot explain this. Nothing can account for such names and epithets, except the prior knowledge of the original prophecy, the prophecy of the “Seed” to be born of a virgin.
There are aspects of the one God In the early period of Egyptian history, this one God appears under the two aspects, Heru-ur and Set. This was similar to the Old Testament, in which God the Creator appears under two names, Elohim and Yahweh. In the original Egyptian monotheism, Heru-ur was the eternally beneficent aspect of the Creator, and Set was the aspect associated with judgment, correction and death.
The hieroglyphic representation consisted of the face of Heru-ur, and the face of Set, being depicted as two aspects of one being. (Davidson and Aldersmith, The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message. London: William and Norgate, Ltd, 1936, p. 451)
These two aspects were later separated to form the Egyptian pagan deities, the elder Horus and Set. The Coming One’s attributes were stolen or borrowed for others . In the earliest Egyptian texts we are brought face to face with prophecies concerning a Messiah who was to come. It was held that “the teacher awaited since the creation of the world” had not yet been manifested on earth.
His coming was to end in his sacrifice and bring about the regeneration of mankind. The ancient Egyptian messianic prophecies refer to the Messiah as “The Lord of Death and Resurrection”. In course of time these prophecies of the Messiah became paganised by the substitution of Osiris, the god of Vegetational Decay and Regeneration, and other deities.
Osiris then usurped the attributes and functions of the promised Messiah that had been known in earlier Egyptian prophecy. Only in the late Egyptian literature from late in the 18th and early in the 19th Dynasty did Osiris and other gods usurp the functions and attributes of the Promised One. (I. Davidson and H. Aldersmith, The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1936, p. 526)
That was after religious degeneration had set in well and truly. But originally, the position of Osiris was not messianic. (Ibid.) Osiris was no more than an allegorical figurehead, a patron of corn, a personification of the agricultural seasons. (Stewart The Witness of the Great Pyramid London: The Covenant Publishing Co. Ltd, 1928, pp. 64,65) Much, much later he became “a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead.” (E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead London: British Museum Publications, 1920)
And only then were the added attributes of the Promised One given to him. Noted archaeologist Professor Budge points out: The beliefs which were conceived by the Egyptians in their lowest states of civilization were mingled with those which reveal the existence of high spiritual conceptions. (Budge The Gods of the Egyptians. New York: Dover Publications, 1969 (reprint of the 1904 ed.), Vol. I, p.32) Similarly, in the most ancient records of the Aryan language, we find indications that religious thought is higher, simpler, purer, as we go further back in time.
Although modern Hinduism recognises a multitude of gods possessing different influences on human affairs, yet the Indian sacred books show that originally it had been otherwise. Speaking of Brahm, the Supreme God: the following is revealed in VEDA. Of Him whose glory is so great, there is no image. He illumines all, delights all, whence all proceeded; that by which they live when born, and that to which all must return. He whom the mind alone can perceive; whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity…. The soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend.
In the Institutes of Menu there is a trace of pantheism, but the very language employed bears testimony to the existence among the Hindus at one period of a far purer monotheistic faith. Brahm the one infinite and eternal God is just the original Hebrew Rahm – with the ‘b’ prefixed, which is very frequent in Sanscrit words derived from Hebrew or Chaldee.
The Hebrew Rahm means “the merciful, or compassionate One.” But Rahm also means “the Womb”, or “the Bowels” as the seat of compassion. Now we find such language applied to Brahm, as cannot be accounted for, except by realising that Brahm had the very same meaning as the Hebrew Rahm.
Thus, we find the god Krishna, in one of the Hindu sacred books (when asserting his high dignity as a divinity, and his identity with the Supreme) using these words: “The great Brahm is my Womb, and in it I place my foetus, and from it is the procreation of all nature. The great Brahm is the Womb of all the various forms which are conceived in every natural womb.” It is very clear that Brahm comes from Rahm which means Womb or Merciful One. Brahm is just the same as Er Rahman (“the all-merciful One”), a title applied by the Turks to the Most High.
Thus, the Hindus, despite the deep religious deterioration seen today, once knew God as “the God of mercy”, that is, “a just God and a rescuer”. He was also called in India “the victim-man”. And among the Buddhists he was commonly addressed as “Savior of the world”. (Mahawanso, xxxi “apud”. Pococke’s India in Greece, p. 185)
Furthermore, the meaning of Deva the generic name for “God” in India is similar. Deva originally came from the Chaldean Thav “Good”. Thav is also legitimately pronounced Thev and in the emphatic form is Theva or Thevo “the Good”. “Th” is frequently pronounced “Dh”. Hence Deva. The “v” is frequently dropped just as “novus” in Latin is “neos” in Greek. Dheva, or Theva, or Thevo becomes Deva. It also becomes Deo or Devs” (“God” in Latin) and Theos (“God” in Greek), or Theo-s or Thevo-s.
This reflects the passage in the Bible that says, “There is none good but One, that is God [Theos – the Good].” (Matthew 19:17)
All the evidence proves a gradual increase in gods. Ancient textual evidence shows that the trend was to increase the number of gods as time passed, rather than decrease them. (Siegfried H. Horn, Records of the Past Illuminate the Bible Washington, DC.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1975, p. 12. Emphasis added)
It was only the later nations who were POLYtheists worshipping many gods. As an example of how far this trend has developed over the past 4,000 years, can be understood by examining the Hindu religion. It is calculated that today the Hindu religion has 600,000 gods!
The study of History, Anthropology and the Bible with the help of Archaeology and etymology reveals a fascinating story. One cannot help but discover how the original worship of a Creator who created the sun, moon and stars, degenerated into veneration of these visible heavenly bodies themselves. And how mankind from a central point in Mesopotamia, was scattered to the ends of the earth and they took with them the same worship system everywhere, the gods of each nation bearing the same functions and symbols and represented in the same way, although under different names. You will also discover how the worship of human heroes attached itself to heavenly bodies, that later degraded into the worship of bulls, goats, cats and crocodiles and hawks and beetles. And sadly, how animal sacrifice was perverted into human sacrifice. For much more on this amazing but true story of Humanity see STOLEN IDENTITY.
Phoenicia-Biblical Tyre, Sidon and Israel,-Down under!-
EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS AND THE MEDIA LAUGHED AT HIM
What can you do when the media, the politicians and the university conspire to deny, suppress and steal your evidence … then laugh at you as a comedy character? This happened to Val Osborn, a careful researcher for 40 years.
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old mine and harbour on the coast of Queensland, Australia, is set to change Australian, if not world history. Late in 2000, ABC national radio announced that amateur historian/archaeologist Val Osborn had traced evidence of the early mining endeavors of the Phoenicians around 1000 BC.
The discovery at Freshwater Point, near Sarina, included huge sea walls (one of them 800 meters long) of polished granite set in iron slag cement and copper slags. Osborn said, “I mean it’s a monstrous thing - you could put three, 200 foot ships end to end there. It’s as calm as a millpond and beautifully engineered.” There was also found a BAAL temple, a Canaanite altar and a cemetery.
Slag heaps are abundant with ancient roads, reservoirs, stone engineered harbours and the usual petroglyphs and grave sites. This tends to substantiate the evidence in Dead Men’s Secrets and Ark of the Covenant that Phoenicians and Egyptians visited Australia. Mediterranean expeditions came seeking minerals and exotics such as sandalwood, eucalyptus oil, gems, and so on. If this find is Phoenician and if it dates to about 1000 BC, then it could be further evidence pointing to voyages by the Red Sea fleet of King Solomon and Hiram of Tyre, mentioned in the Bible.
In an interview with Gilbert Deem, editor of Truth Hunter, Val Osborn exposed the lies, deceit and stealing to which the academic world subjected his findings:
Q). Tell us just what happened to cause this ruckus?
A). Sarina Council requested that I give them a report on the sites. I did this and forwarded a copy to Central Queensland University.
Q). What happened after that?
A). Well the council was happy enough and hoped that the controversy would generate tourism as an addition to their economy.
The academics however were not so happy, describing it as a ticking “political time bomb which they did not wish to be holding if it exploded.” However, their curiosity brought about an investigation by a young archaeologist over five days with a $10,000 grant. He did not work with me but flatly stated initially that he did not intend to risk his career with anything apart from aboriginal history at the site.
A CQU representative offered to create a museum which would house artefacts and findings but warned that they depended upon government grants for their very subsistence.
Q) What did the CQU report reveal?
A) It was simple enough - confined only to “fish traps and a shell midden.” No other remarks relative to European colonization can be found in this report. I gave him a rudder pintles from a large ship followed by a second pintles found underwater at the ancient boat ramp site. Both artifacts have now vanished. No display eventuated of course. Today they deny they had been given them.
Q) So the academics backed off?
A) Yes. When the story broke in the media the academics closed ranks to stamp it out and denied association, however this is par for the course in research. Academia depends on government funding and naturally is subject to government censorship. A CQU representative was interviewed on the six o’clock news. He was represented as an archaeology expert when in reality he was an art history teacher.
Q) So no contact with this university since?
A) No. I have been officially discredited.
Q) What about the media - did everything vanish within seven days?
A) Less than that. It was censored within 24 hours. The council broke the story and my phone rang non- stop for 48 hours. We had to take it off the hook. Initially I had calls from around the world and the ABC rang for brief interviews until the discrediting on the six o’clock news and from that point on I was relegated to comedy sessions. This is the usual method to reestablish political correctness.
Q) And the newspapers?
A) A reporter and photographer flew in and did a full coverage of one site which was supposed to run in the Sunday Supplement of a leading Queensland newspaper but I was told later that a politician killed the story.
Q) So what happens now?
A) I guess we wait for some PhD. to break ranks and to do a decent job on these sites. As an amateur I can go to jail for digging or for just retaining an artifact. Officially of course there is no site and there are no artifacts.
Q) Do we have the expertise in Australia with the experience and knowledge to handle the specific areas of research?
A) Firstly there is political censorship. You are asking an academic to put his career on the line. Secondly the history of the ancient seafaring nations is a blank chapter relative to 2000 B.C. to 200 B.C. and only a handful of researchers have the specific knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean sea- trading sagas. In almost every case such research has officially been erased.
In this discovery we are talking about 4,000 years of history prior to the British navigator Captain Cook, with Australia well known to ancient sea traders and with the visitors coming and departing on the monsoon trade-winds and the establishment of ancient colonies. This is in direct contrast to the fictions perpetrated by historians that Australia was only discovered in 1770 and settled in 1788 and that prior to that no one accept the currently considered indigenous people new about this land or had dealings with it.
In summary we have a situation where a private researcher goes to the media with historical artifacts, however the story is smothered, and then academia comes in and cleans out or buries the evidence. The media press releases then become propaganda that deliberately erases any prior British colonial history. Even so, the proliferation of discoveries by individual researchers outside the system attracts worldwide attention hopefully the establishment will be forced, in time, to reveal the facts. But foe now if you would like to know more about such amazing discoveries and their cover ups, get a copy of FORBIDDEN DISCOVERIES.
Ancient man knew more the we do!
HOGWASH! SAYS WHO?
In many ways ancient man had a knowledge and working understating of a form science and technology that was superior to ours today. Now that may shock you but the truth is there are a lot of unexplained things around the world that the primitive to advanced progression model cannot answer. The bible doesn't record detail on these topics because it is more concerned about matters of the heart and the regeneration of man so he can be made fit for a heavenly kingdom free from sin and death. But it does give enough information that when supported by sound science and history enables such a conclusion.
Sadly, much evidence has been misplaced and is no longer available. Do you know that most information concerning ancient secrets has been lost? Do you also know that most of it was deliberately destroyed! And do you know that over the centuries there has been widespread destruction of artifacts and printed records, in which the greatest depositaries of knowledge from the ancient world are lost forever?
Fortunately, a small portion did survive. You have to search for it. But it’s there! And some of it is quite mind blowing!
THREE CLASSES OF INFORMATION
There are three ways to track this information.
Firstly, through PHYSICAL ARTIFACTS. There are objects of metal sitting in museums, unquestionably made in the ancient world, that would have required very advanced technology to produce. Technology not to be repeated until our day. The weight of evidence grows daily – evidence that all the major secrets of technology were known, and forgotten, long ago. Evidence that early man did create a society that surpassed ours in all aspects of development.
Secondly, WRITTEN RECORDS. In addition to these artifacts, we have some priceless ancient books. These go into detail concerning a superior knowledge in the remote past… knowledge concerning the surface of the moon, the atomic structure of matter and so on. Some of this information is still ahead of our time.
Thirdly, ORAL TRADITIONS. There is a huge mass of oral traditions – a shared racial memory – concerning an original superior civilisation and its scientific secrets. I am reminded of the question that was posed by the eminent British scientist Frederick Soddy, winner of a Nobel prize in physics. He asked whether ancient civilisations might “not only have attained our present knowledge, but a power hitherto unmastered by us?” (Soddy, Interpretation of Radium, p. 243)
THEY KNEW MORE Certainly, as evidence piles up of a forgotten prehistoric science, it is difficult to shake off the feeling that our ancestors knew a lot more than we do. They possessed superior intelligence and technological skill – often to a degree that the modern mind finds staggering. Their attainments stare us in the face. They are astonishing; in some spheres, penetrating knowledge which our science has scarcely begun to nudge. Their secrets defy us. Now let us get down to some specifics. That will be the purpose of this survey. I tracked down the following examples, in the hope that you will find them interesting. So if you would like to discover sixty-four aspects of science and technology in which the ancients were superior to us, then you need to get a copy of…
Noah's Ark Found!
A HEATED BATTLE RAGES OVER 5 MAJOR DISCOVERY CLAIMS
In the late 1970s and continuing into the 1980s and beyond a series of significant discoveries were made by amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt. These claims were soon disputed and challenged but it wasn’t long before these said discoveries were professionally proven true rather than false. What is fascinating about these discoveries is that they confirm events in Earth’s history that to a large extend today are regarded as myth or legend.
These finds come at a time when mankind in the countries that have had a history with the God of the Bible, are mostly apostate. Secular humanism has run rampant and it’s not just the secularist today that consigns the bible to myth but also many who claim to still be “Christian” do likewise. Concerning these major events in Earth history where God has intervened in a miraculous way it is explained away in a legendary manner. Sad but true and its not just the un assuming lukewarm church goer or the adamant secular humanist scientist, but some in the Creationist Christian camp reject these monumental findings as well.
It is claimed that the following biblical accounts have been confirmed by Archaeology
- Noah’s Ark in Turkey
- Sodom and Gomorrah in Israel
- The Exodus Red Sea Crossing
- The true Mount Sinai in Arabia
- The Ark of the Covenant
This claim however is still disputed even within Christian circles despite the sites being more than adequately tested. I am not aware of one scientist who still objects, that has visited these sites to either confirm or deny their veracity. But still objections ae raised. It is because of this very matter that the following publication has been made available.
So, in answer to this a compilation has been made titled Discovery questions answered. In this compendium every objection, criticism and question has been answered. We have not shied away from the critics but have replied to every objection raised. The critics spoke up and we answered.
Regarding NOAH’S ARK we address the following:
1) True or False, Fable or Real?
2) Is there a CONSPIRACY going on?
3) Evidence supplied confirming Noah’s Ark site.
4) You can decide for yourself, Is this really Noah’s Ark?
5} In addition, If you decide to read the Ark Conspiracy you will discover a real-life “Indiana Jones” type of setting, were explores find themselves caught up in a deadly game of tomb robberies, betrayals and attempted murder. It is an astonishing, intriguing expose of the greatest mystery ever.
6} We are confident that Discoveries Answered as well as the Ark Conspiracy will vindicate the truth – and correct an injustice, pulling no punches, exposing the rivalry, the lies and deceit perpetrated by various actors in the Ark-search drama.
SODOM AND GOMORRAH
Yes Fire rained down from the sky and 5 cities vanished. Its true the Sulphur rocks (Brimstone) still burn today in a desert that can kill you in hours. This is truly the eeriest ghost town on earth. And yes they really are the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah all objections and questions answered.
EXCITING DISCOVERIES UNDER THE SEA THE RED SEA CROSSING
- Yes, the Israelite’s were trapped by a super army and then the army vanished!
- Did the Red Sea really open up well the evidence speaks for itself.
- Did an Egyptian army really pursue their prey onto the dry sea bed and then die under the collapsing waters, yes the artefacts prove the Bible true. There are REMAINS OF PHAROAH’S ARMY on the sea floor.
THE MIS-PLACED MOUNTAIN, WHERE IS THE REAL Mt SINAI. At las the true story of the most famous mountain on earth. The Bible tells us where it is and Archaeology proved where THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE PUBLICLY GIVEN AND WHERE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT WAS MADE. Did you know that Tourists are still sent go to the WRONG COUNTRY, in search of this sacred site? Despite what the scriptures say.
ARK OF THE COVENANT
Well it is the legend they must hide, way too hot to touch if you value your life! And what explosive connection has it with the emerging New World Order? This information is presented for the benefit of countless honest people who genuinely want to know the truth about these DISCOVERIES.
For all the Answers get a copy of DISCOVERY QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
The extermination plot!
PLEASE! NO MORE OUTRAGEOUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES
In my work as an Archaeologist, I have come across a variety of con men. My work touches not only on archaeology, but it even brings me into the field of religion. And here, perhaps, more than anywhere, I see honest people being conned. And why do tricksters swarm this field? Because they know that it contains so many honest, trusting people who are not expecting con men to penetrate that sphere.
Recently, historically speaking, religious con men began to so their seeds of doubt concerning the bible. Beginning in the mid-1800s, when it was generally accepted that the biblical book of Genesis was a true record of man’s earliest history and when there was little solid evidence to support such a view.
Acceptance of the biblical account was based largely on faith. Then modern thought began moving into theories that contradicted some of the Genesis story. “The age of enlightenment” had arrived. And the rumour started going around that Genesis was only a “myth.” One objection came up that Genesis, the “book of beginnings”, was not written (as believed) so early as the time of Moses – because in 1400 BC “writing was still unknown”. Therefore, its stories must have been passed down orally.
So, they might be no more than myths, legends or fables. It turned out that this intellectual “discovery” was coming from a most unexpected quarter – scholars in Germany who were graduating from seminaries which trained Protestant ministers. How could this be? Was not Germany the beating heart of the Protestant Reformation, which championed the Bible?
To understand this strange development, we need to go back a little further. For a thousand years, the ruling Church -The Papacy- had fiercely suppressed the Bible. Why? Because it exposed the corruption of the Papacy -the ruling Church. This hatred had resulted in countless hand-written copies being seized upon and burned. It was a forbidden book that could easily result in your death if you were caught with a copy.
Then came the invention of the printing press. In 1516 the New Testament in Greek was printed. Mass production was now possible and although harsh penalties still applied if you possessed a copy, no longer could the book be successfully suppressed. “We must destroy the printing press, or it will destroy us,” shouted the Vicar of Croydon.” (E.R. Palmer, The Printing Press and the Gospel, p.24)
In France, printers who were convicted of printing Bibles were seized and burned alive. And on February 26, 1535, a law was passed to suppress printing! (Samuel Smiles, The Huguenots, pp.20,21, and first footnote) But the Reformation (led by a brave German priest of the Church, Martin Luther) was continuing to wrench Europe out of Romes clutches. It seemed invincible. The Papacy’s leaders were aghast. They realised that they must act decisively. New tactics were required. Since the driving force of the Protestant movement was seen to be the Bible, this must be broken. The Bible had to be discredited. How could this be done? Only by spreading confusion as to its origin and authenticity!
To counteract the Protestant movement, the Jesuit organization was founded by Ignatius Loyola. Its other aim was to bring all nations under the Roman Papacy’s power – a Globalist strategy, the agenda of a New World Order.
And so it was that Germany, the birthplace of the Reformation, was to become the initial focus of attack. (This is described in more detail in the book, The Sorcerers’ Secret. -See Shop on website)
How better to accomplish their aim than to infiltrate Protestant seminaries? So “wise” instructors were planted undercover in the centres of learning to “prove” that the Bible was composed of myths and contained numerous errors. The effect of this “higher criticism”, as it was called, was to break the driving force of Protestantism. And, starting with Germany, the infiltration strategy would be ultimately pursued right throughout the scholarly world.
Today it is called “modernism”. Darwin’s evolution theory was adopted as part of their weaponry. These men infiltrated and took over the universities, and today no scientist who dares question it, is allowed funding. It is significant that this anti-Bible onslaught did not originate with atheists, but with a large religious organization. - an organization that was to become a driving force in the New World Order movement.
For many years, nobody could deny the insistent arguments of these “learned” men, which were made possible by the lack of archaeological knowledge about the ancient world. However, all this has changed and abundant evidence has been dug up not only challenging these anti genesis fables but outright proving them false and validating the scriptures.
This attack on the bible has produced nothing less than the nihilistic mindset which has dominated scientific thought for the past century. And Based on the popularised “Evolution” theory, nihilism is now in danger of committing mankind to a course of automatic self-destruction. Hitler’s atrocities were based on it. So were those of Stalin, Mao tse Tung and Pol Pot.
You may be surprised to learn that today many leading scientists are now questioning the validity of evolution. But the damage has been done. It has had a free hand and little or no opposition in the universities and colleges, and through the press and television, all these years. It has resulted in reasoning which has brought the most disastrous consequences. The propaganda has already molded society’s thinking. The people continue to remain, for the most part, blissfully unaware of what has happened and continue to believe the litany of Globalist lies bombarding them through incessant propaganda, never raising any objection to the billions of dollars being poured into perpetuating their ignorance.
And like it or not, its influence is largely responsible for our present-day social, political and moral problems.
We are all victims in one way or another of our culture and the role models with which we identify, strongly influence our behaviour. The man who believes he came from a beast may be more likely to behave like a beast. The image is not only degrading. It is dangerous. Now just think about this. If atheistic evolution is true, then there are really no absolutes. No right or wrong ways of doing things. So “anything goes” – incest, fraud, various perversions, violence and almost whatever you want.
There can be no objective criteria for patterns of living or for codes of law. Do you see? The idea of man as simply an evolving result of mutational accidents, the highest of the animals, must inevitably lead to the devaluation of an individual’s basic rights. We already see the result of this in many parts of the world, where the rights of the individual have come to be regarded as secondary to those of the State.
They can indoctrinate your children against your beliefs, confiscate your property, vaccinate you forcibly, and so on. Now just think about this. If the survival of the fittest results in improvement of the race, then the use of force and cruelty to crush the weak and unfit is justified.
The “Evolutionary” mindset of Hitler, and the appeal of totalitarian systems such as Nazism, Communism and Secular Humanism, owe a great deal to the acceptance of evolution. As do fascism, anarchism, atheism, and militarism.
Take away evolution theory from these belief systems, and they effectively lose a central premise necessary for their coherence. If you didn’t know, evolution theory was a powerful influence on the mindset which dominated Nazi and Communist leaders. They held that the “survival of the fittest” applied not only in nature but also in the struggle between races and nations. Those groups that were hostile to the State or were biologically inferior needed to be weeded out if the State was to prosper.
Hitler implemented the racist ideas of Social Darwinism. And, as you know, this culminated in the well-organized plan to slaughter Jews, Slavs and the unfit. Hitler believed that the evolutionary process could be sped up by the extermination of so-called inferior branches of evolution. As the holocaust swept into action, Himmler regarded the victims as vermin, as though he was handling a biological disease. “Does a rat catcher think it is wrong to catch rats?” asked a Nazi defendant at the Nuremburg war criminal trials.
So came the death camps, in which millions of men, women and children were exterminated. Gold watches, gold wedding rings, gold teeth and gold eye glasses that the victims left behind were deposited into the federal bank. One witness admitted it took an extra five minutes to kill the women, because they had to cut their hair off to be used in making mattresses.
Of course, we cannot blame Charles Darwin and his colleagues personally for such gruesome practices. But we need to recognise that unquestioning belief in evolution was a CENTRAL feature of the Nazi belief system, and not just incidental to it.
The “Evolution” factor inspired Communism. The central tenet of Communism was the theory of Class Struggle. Its concept of “dialectical materialism” relied heavily on evolution as a fact. So were launched the communist purges of 60 million in the USSR alone, and tens of millions more in China. The victims were regarded as nothing more than creatures that were expendable in the quest for a classless society. Again, evolution theory was ESSENTIAL to Communism, not just incidental to it. The central proposition of Class Struggle depended upon evolution theory for plausibility.
To be fair, one might not blame evolution theory for the inhuman and degrading acts carried out by Nazism and Communism. However, the impact of evolution needs to be placed in its proper context. In other words, we need to give it due recognition.
In context of today’s culture evolution thinking inspires the Globalists. Yes, the present New World Order plotters are building their plans upon the same basic tenet. Infiltrating political, religious, and economic spheres of influence. It is they who are plunging our world into its current financial and geopolitical crisis. They need to collapse every nation’s economy and disrupt orderly conduct, so they can replace it with their One World Government. A Conspiracy Theorist statement? No, it is a statement of fact.
Despite the horrors of the 20th century, as early as 1974, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in an address to the National Security Council, presented a proposed 2 billion person population reduction. However, the depopulation policy may seek a 2-4 billion reduction, or up to two thirds of the world's population. This depopulation policy is intended by the world's ruling elite to result in control of mineral and strategic resources and water and total control of the world's wealth. (“Implications of worldwide population growth for US security & overseas interests”, National Security Memo 200, April 24, 1974)
By 1979 depopulation was the top priority of US national security policy, as outlined in the national security paper Global 2000 written by Rockefeller contractors Henry Kissinger, Z. Brzezinski, Gen. Alexander Haig, and Ed Muskie for President Carter.
We now see a progressive enacting of this plot in the stealthy release of biological/genetic/recombinant DNA weapons, such as AIDS, swine flu, etc and forced vaccinations in third world countries, even systematic use of depleted uranium. Where will it all end. Well the bible comments on that thoroughly enough but to be more concise and reference a Biblical book that is causing quite a stir and becoming more than a Bombshell, get a copy of
the Weapon the Globalist Fear
And I beheld another beast ... he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. Rev 13:11
THE JESUITS AND PROTOCOLS OF ZION
History is not only fascinating but it is full of intrigue and sabotage. There are many theories on why things are the way they are geopolitically and religiously. And the bible ways in on this significantly and there are certain theories that have been advocated that are more commonly accepted within Christian communities which have a definite eschatological view.
It is important to realise that the Bible makes comments that are far reaching in scope and time and there are varying views on such topics and to get an accurate appraisal of such references much study is required that cuts through the intrigue and sabotage. Many changes have occurred both religiously and politically over the last 200 years that have had a major impact of geopolitical and religious matters throughout the world and many who study these things may not see the religious component behind the scenes. This following will address the religious element that has affected some of the changes.
Who introduced Communism in 1848? Could it be the Jesuits? Well, more is becoming known of their involvement in international affairs and according to Alberto Rivera, an ex-Jesuit. Karl Marx, who is credited for theorizing communism, was tutored in Britain by Jesuits. Communism was to have a Jewish flavor to it and Marx, a Jewish Freemason, was to be the one to advocate Communism for the world. Communism would look like a Jewish brain-child, so that Communism could be blamed on the Jews. This had a devastating effect in WW2.
What is not told is that the Jews involved in the implementing of Communism were Masonic Jews. Karl Marx was a 33rd-degree Freemason, a worshipper of Lucifer. The higher degrees of masonry i.e 33 do not reveal this fact to the lower degrees, subsequently many are not aware of it.
Jewish Freemasonry, which was controlled by the Jesuits, implemented Communism in Russia. Lenin, who was half Jewish, was also a Freemason and he led the Bolshevik revolution in Russia that toppled that great empire. And this created an international scare at the time that had a massive effect in Europe in the inter war period.
A civil war developed and was waged from 1917-1922, in which contingents were raised from other countries to fight communism in Russia. Throughout this period much was done to create the appearance that it was a Jewish conspiracy. To give the impression to the world that this revolution was of Jewish origin.
When the revolution was over and Lenin died, in 1922, Joseph Stalin came to power. Stalin was educated by Jesuits and was a known as a Jew-hater. The Jesuits trained Joseph Stalin, brought him in after the Revolution, and made him Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922, until he died in 1953.
At the same time in Germany there were large riots and much civil unrest. Communism almost got control of Germany and became one of the major concerns for Germany, politically, socially, and religiously. The Nazi parties strong stand against it was one of the reasons Hitler gained support. Hitler was vehemently anti communist and because he was convinced of the Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy as he referred to it, he also developed a hatred for the Jews. Hitler signed a concordant with the Vatican who helped thousands of Nazis escape through the Ratlines after the war.
WHAT ABOUT THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION?
Was not this evil agenda spawned by Jews? The Jesuit Oath is very similar to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Alberto Rivera said that the Jesuits are responsible for them and it is obvious they wrote the Protocols because they have carried out every protocol in that little handbook. And ALWAYS the Protocols further the agenda of the Jesuit Order.
The Protocols played a big part of the Jesuit, or Communist takeover of Russia. After the Bolsheviks took over and killed the Russian Orthodox leaders, purged Russia of Protestants, and set up the gulag system, the Jesuits behind it all, could openly invite the Jesuits to take over. The Jesuits were given formal re-entry into Russia in 1922, after the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War. The Protocols Of Zion, were discovered in Russia, and translated by an Englishman, Marsden.
The Russian College was erected in Rome in 1929, so they could prepare Russian Jesuits to rule Russia. And that is what they have done. According to Eric Phelps – the writer of Vatican Assassins, the Jesuit General ruled through the KGB, just like they rule America through the CIA and the FBI. As an aside there have been many books written particularly in the 19th century, that reveal the Jesuits involvement in political and religious affairs in various countries. As a matter of fact, they were expelled from scores of countries for such meddling.
Within the communist system huge slave labour camps were erected, this was known as the gulag system, it amounted to about 30% of the Soviet economy and brought misery to millions of people. Nazism erected similar camps that also enslaved millions of people.
The Jesuits by using the Protocols, were able to blame it all on the Jews. A demonic masterpiece. This BLAMING THE JEWS was their great accomplishment that continues to serve the Jesuit purposes so well today, as they have their people in high places within positions of power that can further their agenda, despite the opposition from many Jewish people. In addition, people who know something is wrong, and are highly motivated to do something, are derailed and become part of the problem by blaming the Jews.
In Europe in World War 2, blaming the Jews, justified the persecution and almost completed annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. The claim, was is it not the Jews who did this in Russia? The Jews killed all the Christians in Russia! The Jews sent them off to Siberia! After all, wasn't Trotsky a Jew? Wasn't Lenin a Jew? It is all the Jews!
That was the great Luciferian success of the Protocols, blame it all on the Jews, and purged Europe of its Jews. When the persecution began in Germany there was no escape for the ordinary average Jewish person. Only a selected amount due to the Transfer agreement were allowed to escaped and transfer their wealth to Palestine before the war started. If the Jews really controlled Russia, they could have gone right into Russia. They were not allowed. Stalin would not allow any Jews to go into Russia. Churchill would not allow any Jews to go into England. And Roosevelt would not allow any Jews to go into America. They were not allowed to escape. Only after the war were the remainder, the survivors, permitted to Palestine but under dubious conditions, that has involved non stop conflict. Now the British bungling of the management of the former Ottoman lands and the UN inability to deal with the matter properly and the Arabs hostility can be blamed on the seemingly unsolvable problems.
And so, the Protocols continue, how sad and counterproductive to the purposes of the true God! Causing people to trade love for hate. Europe is primarily Roman Catholic now. It's a Roman Catholic bloc, and the Papacy has subversively gained control of the European Union.
Alberto Rivera told us much about the origin of the Protocols. He was a Jesuit who found the Truth. He renounced Lucifer's Jesuits and shined the light of truth upon them. Alberto was greatly maligned and not helped at all by the Apostate Protestants in America. He was helped, somewhat, by Jack Chick. Jack Chick published his story in six volumes, titled Alberto I, II, III, IV, V, & VI.
Alberto Rivera says that it was Jews aligned with the Pope who published the Protocols. The Jesuits’ hand is all over the Protocols. Whether they used some traitorous Jews, or did it alone, is debatable. What is not debatable is that they alone, were the ones who were able to bring this to pass. Alberto Rivera, was greatly hated by the Vatican because he was a very high Jesuit who came out and, in the late '60s, about 1969, exposed the power of Rome in the ecumenical movement. Alberto also revealed that Rome controlled Kathryn Kuhlman; Billy Graham; Ronald Reagan and the whole American government. Through her various agencies that work in darkness conducting intrigue and sabotage. For more details on Romes involvement in America get a copy of .. WELCOME THEN BETRAYAL..
Science and technology superior to today
HOW PREPOSTEROUS
Our modern world is flattering itself that never before in the history of man has there been such a brainy lot of scientists as are with us now. In this 21st century we are so educated, so cultured, so advanced, that it may be tempting to think that our ancestors were by comparison bumbling cave men.
Could this be a simple case of egotism, based on ignorance? Yes, we do have wonderful technology today. And it is exploding at a rate that is breathtaking. But is this because we are more intelligent than our ancestors or could there be another reason? I think most of us will realise, mankind is no more intelligent than he was a thousand years ago, but there is a factor in our favour: we have accumulated more technology. We have the accumulated knowledge of the past upon which we can draw and make improvements.
That’s why we have so much. And now our accumulated knowledge is building exponentially. What an exciting time to be alive! But many of us have been walking over our past, regarding it lightly, unaware of priceless treasures lost, discarded and forgotten. Literally there is a king’s ransom of information that could transform our life style in many other ways, if we would only search, study and take advantage of it.
I did not come upon this information by choice. A few years ago I happened to be researching for a history book, in which prehistory would have probably occupied just one brief chapter. At first, when I stumbled across one “out of place” item, I simply dismissed it as irrelevant. However, it was not just in one spot. As I investigated further, a few more of them popped up in various places. Still, I continued to push them aside because they could not be explained.
These “out of place” items continued to surface. Now they were emerging more persistently. Finally, it became clear. A pattern was developing. You see, most archaeologists specialise in the country of their interest, and become proficient in Egyptian archaeology, North American, African, or whatever. And the odd “out of place” find is usually dismissed. It is only when you start taking in the BIG picture – the world-wide scene – when you notice the same “out of place” items in other parts of the world, that it becomes possible to see a pattern emerging. I discovered that there was a connection between these “out of place” items – whether in South America, the Pacific or the Old World. There was an “agreement” between them. They spoke with the same voice, hinting at a prehistoric high civilisation, a global super culture, that had been lost, ignored, or forgotten. The bible does not go into detail about this matter but certainly does not rule it out. Alluding to it in Genesis 4 it references a Tubalcain, who was an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron. It was not until the 1750s that the industrial revolution began and from then to now in a little over 250 years we have increased rapidly in technology. The same could very well have happened pre flood and the evidence surely suggests it did.
Here was something that we had never been told about! This was the missing ingredient to history! Suddenly it struck me. That’s when I resolved to take the matter more seriously. So I scrapped plans for the book I was writing and began serious research for what would eventually become Dead Men’s Secrets which revealed many unexplainable discoveries.
Do you know that most information concerning ancient secrets has been lost? Even worse that most of it was deliberately destroyed! Do you know that over the centuries there has been widespread destruction of artifacts and printed records, in which the greatest depositaries of knowledge from the ancient world are lost forever? Fortunately, though a small portion did survive. You must search for it but it’s there! and some of it is quite mind blowing! Still unexplainable. So if you would like to know more on this fascinating topic and get a more complete understanding of the ancient world, like I did, get a copy of 64 secrets of the that are still ahead of us.
Wolves in Sheep's clothing
BE YE THEREFORE AS WISE AS SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES
When considering the Jesuits we should not ignore the admonition of scripture
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Mat 7:15
Armed with this as sound advice lets continue our quest to discover more about the Jesuits. Rome commemorates the death of Ignatius of Loyola on July 31 each year. Loyola was the notorious founder of the Society of Jesus, also known as the “Jesuits”. While the man died long ago, his movement lives on continuing its malicious mission across the globe. This Jesuit agenda has relevance today for America, Europe, and many other nations around the world.
Over the years many scholars and historians have written about the nefarious schemes of the Jesuits and Former Catholic priest Richard Bennett also recognized the danger:
It is a well-established fact that the Jesuits throughout their history have caused many serious disturbances by their nefarious schemes within the civil governments of many countries. Over the centuries, they have justifiably earned their reputation as troublemakers to the extent that they were denied residence in some nations for varying periods of time.
The historian J.A. Wylie draws remarkable parallels between Loyola and the Jesuits to Luther and the Reformers. His comparison goes beyond the fact that both men were born and lived around the same time in the 1500’s. Both men began as stubborn, secular careerists. Near disastrous events turned their lives to strict, even fanatical, Catholicism.
Loyola was a military man who suffered a near fatal injury. Luther was set on a career as a lawyer until nearly being struck dead by lightning. Both men turned to extreme asceticism in Catholic monasteries. Both Loyola and Luther were tortured by their consciences as the guilt of their sin weighed heavily upon them. This austere Catholicism brought out their passion, genius, and organizational skills.
Yet, this is where the similarities end.
Luther’s despair directed him toward repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whereby he came to an understanding of faith in Christ alone through grace alone. Following this Luther began to teach others and as he continued, he and other reformers rediscovered the core doctrines of the Christian faith that are contained in Scripture. God’s working in Luther’s life led to the liberation of many from dead works of the false doctrines of Rome. It was once commonly understood that the reformers discovered 2 very important truths, they discovered the real Christ of Scripture and His counterpart and adversary the Anti Christ of Scripture.
In contrast, Loyola’s mind dug deeper into the well of Roman mysticism and Babylonian substitution. He performed acts of self-humiliation and masochism to further his devotion to “Mary”. (Semiramis) This asceticism made Loyola claim he saw fantastic visions of Heaven and Hell, Mary and Jesus. Eventually, he convinced himself to become a “knight for Mary” serving as a “soldier of Jesus”. He would offer his unconditional loyalty to the Roman Pope and actively recruited other men to his fanatic cause of countering opposition to Rome, as he aggressively targeted reformed Christians.
Loyola named his group “the Society of Jesus” and prior to this order other orders such as the Augustinians, Dominicans, and Franciscans conducted similar anti-Christian activities, like persecuting the Albigenses and Waldenses. So, he was in good company and as his order developed it would take on the main role of countering Christians as the reformation developed.
Over time the Jesuits would develop into a religious and political order that would as a cloak, serve the least fortunate in society, such as the sick and poor, they would open schools and colleges but ultimately their primary goal was to influence the areas where power emanated from, in both the catholic and protestant countries. This would be achieved by controlling the ruling classes, to subject the population to the Roman Pope and erode the dissenting belief in the Bible alone, as the Protestants had established through the reformation. Hence, many refer to the Jesuits activities as the “Counter Reformation”
The Jesuits success over the centuries has been credited to the obedience that is expected from the initiates, to the point of forfeiting one’s rational judgment. Today the Jesuits are the largest order in the Roman Catholic Church and much has been written about their heinous activities employed to acquire their goals and it is fair to say that the Jesuit must yield his moral conscience, for the sake of the order. The Jesuit oath will testify to this.
Many an author has recorded the indelible mark on history that the Jesuits have left. One such Author Edmond Paris outlines their disastrous influence throughout the 16th and 17th century throughout Europe. In Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Poland , Russia, Sweeden France and England. And beyond Europe, India, Japan, China and the New world.
Referencing the 20th century he includes the havoc caused by their participation in the causes for the first world war and the second. Including the gestapo and the death camps.
Other authors such as Eric Phelps write about many of their infamous deeds including the development and of perfecting of Communism amongst the indigenous people of Paraguay. As well assassinations of heads of state, such as President Abraham Lincoln in the US.
In fact, the following is a sample of some Authors who all record the sad life of the Jesuits.
Theodor Griesinger, The History of the Jesuits G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York, 1883
E.H. Lehmann, Behind the Dictators: A Factual Analysis of the Relationship of Nazi-Fascism and Roman Catholicism.
Charles Chiniquy, 50 Years in the “Church” of Rome: The Conversion of a Priest, (Chick Publications: 1985, Chino, CA
J.E.C. Shepherd, The Babington Plot: Jesuit Intrigue in Elizabethan England, (Toronto: Wittenburg Publications, 1987
This list is a small sample of the many excellent commentaries that one can read to get a better understanding of the demonic schemes of the Jesuits.
Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus was expelled from over 80 countries, city-states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversive plots against the welfare of the State, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute, Thomas J. Campbell.… Practically every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting to political insurrection.
We need to remember politics is a tool, not an end, for the Jesuits. The goal is secular and spiritual domination under their rule. The Jesuits seek to co-opt the secular authorities to persecute and eliminate the influence of God’s true people.
The successors of both Loyola and Luther continue in conflict today and ultimately, we choose whose side were are on. Luther is a side of the bible and the God of the bible this involves your sanctification and preparation for what the scriptures call a new heaven and a new earth a home of righteousness where the dwelling place of Giod is with man.
The Jesuits is for your submission to a temporal earthly ruler called the pope who claims the titles, prerogatives and position of Christ and God the Father
The Holy Scriptures address the deceptive nature of the Antichrist system in its ability to adapt its appearance to cater to a specific audience. Antichrist appears “gentle like a lamb”. Yet, God’s Word also reveals that the essence of Antichrist does not change!
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. Rev 13:11
Indeed, the Jesuits are well-trained in adapting to the context of the audience whom they desire to influence and today there are many in the world in the fields of commerce, politics and religion that are subject to Jesuit Influence.
A mad scramble into the unkown
BABEL OR BUST, ONWARD TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
“It’s way out!” shrieked Mari. “Come, look! This must be the place.”
For as long as the eleven-year-old could remember, his family had been uprooting and trekking. They had turned their backs on the city. No sooner did they find a choice spot to settle, than others would come and edge them out.
This time, it had been a marathon adventure. For weeks they had skirted the coast, travelling east, before coming upon a virgin land of high, awesome peaks. The setting was terrifyingly wild. In from the beach, they entered a gorge. It was raging, so much water. Hopefully, they might reach the interior of this passage. For a full two days, they negotiated it. The beauty of the terrain overwhelmed them. Mid-morning on the third day their passage was blocked by a foaming tributary which exited between cliffs. Finding a ledge, they turned along it.
At times, the ledge widened into sandbanks overhung with trees. Songsters unseen enticed them forward. There was a raucous shriek, as two winged giants swooped down then flew ahead.Mari and his sister were skipping ahead of their elders. At each new marvel they would turn and call back.
The tiny group had been pushing up this tributary for most of the day now. Suddenly Mari stopped dead… and gasped. Before him opened a basin, walled in by an immaculate snowy range. And into it a waterfall of awesome beauty plunged down among palms and kapok trees.
Imagine it! They must be the first people to see this place! No wonder Mari shouted excitedly! Here they just had to remain.
OFFSHOOTS OF MAINSTREAM CULTURE -Departure from Babel
In the ongoing migration from that region, some family groups were pushed out further by those following. There were bands of scattering families who lost touch with civilised communities. The further they wandered, the more barbaric and debased they became. Latest research suggests strongly that the ancestors of today’s primitive tribes were \civilized city dwellers.
We have already seen some compelling evidence of our origins in the Middle East region. But now we see the same story from global migration patterns!
All lines of migration that are in any way still traceable are found to radiate from the Middle East. Along each migratory route, settlements have been found, each slightly different from the one that preceded it or followed it. Generally, the direction of movement tends to be shown by a gradual loss of cultural artefacts.
As several lines radiate from a single centre, there can be traced more or less a series of ever increasing circles of settlement, each sharing fewer and fewer of the original cultural artefacts which are seen at the centre.
MORE PRIMITIVE ON THE FRINGES
As we have seen in past bulletins, the cradle of mankind was in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Any evidence of primitive types elsewhere in the world, whether living or fossil, is evidence, not that man began there, but that man became degraded as he departed from the centre. In marginal areas where individuals or families were pushed by those who followed them, circumstances often combined to degrade them physically and culturally.
A series of zones is found globally, in which the most primitive are found furthest from Asia, and most advanced nearest to Asia. Professor Griffith Taylor of the University of Toronto, put it this way: A series of zones is shown to exist in the East Indies and in Australasia which is so arranged that the most primitive are found farthest from Asia, and the most advanced nearest to Asia.
“This distribution about Asia is shown to be true in the other ‘peninsulas’ (i.e. Africa and Europe) “Which ever region we consider, Africa, Europe, Australia, or America, we find that the major migrations have always been from Asia.” Environment, Race and Migration, p.8)
He says further: “The first point of interest in studying the distribution of the African peoples is that the same rule holds good which we have observed in the Australasian peoples. “The most primitive groups are found in the region’s most distant from Asia, or what comes to the same thing, in the most inaccessible regions….
“Given these conditions, it seems logical to assume that the racial zones can only have resulted from similar peoples spreading out like waves from a common origin. “This cradleland should be approximately between the two ‘peninsulas,’ and all indications (including the racial distribution of India) point to a region of maximum evolution not far from Turkestan. It is not unlikely that the time factor was similar in the spread of all these peoples.” (Ibid., pp.120-121)
A DISTRIBUTION PATTERN
So how can one most logically explain the geographical distribution of “primitive” human fossil remains?
These were the marginal representatives of a widespread dispersion of people from a single population established at a point central to them all.
As the central population multiplied, it sent forth successive waves of migrants. Each wave drove the previous one further toward the outer edge.
SKYSCRAPER TO “STONE AGE”
Those who were driven into the least hospitable areas, suffered physical degeneration under the conditions they were forced to live. We find these today as the most degraded fossil specimens, or as the most primitive societies still alive today.
And there are extraordinary physical differences among them. Doubtless because they were members of small, isolated, strongly inbred bands. Yet the cultural similarities which link together even the most widely dispersed of them indicate a common origin for them all.
TIME TAKEN TO MIGRATE
So how long did it take for these early post-Flood folk to disperse to the ends of the earth? From the Middle East “Cradle of Man”, the most distant settlement by land is the very southern tip of South America, 15,000 miles approximately. How long would such a journey take? It has been estimated that men might have covered the 4,000 miles from Harbin, Manchuria, to Vancouver Island, Canada, in as little as 20 years. (Kenneth Macgowan, Early Man in the New World, p.3)
And the rest of the journey southward? Says Alfred Kidder: “A hunting pattern based primarily on big game could have carried man to southern South America without the necessity at that time of great localized adaptation.
“It could have been effected with relative rapidity, so long as camel, horse, sloth, and elephant were available. All the indications point to the fact that they were.” (Appraisal of Anthropology Today, p.46) So, as with everything else, migrations did not require vast aeons of time.
SOME SOCIETIES BECAME PRIMITIVE, OTHERS RETAINED CIVILIZATION
Among the family groups which dispersed over the earth, some developed into nations. In a remarkably short time the Hamitic branch of mankind had established beachheads of settlement in every part of the world. Some who penetrated wilderness areas did not maintain their civilization in the new isolated environment, but over generations became more and more savage and depraved. Many of the dispersing groups were plunged into an “instant stone age” through loss of metal technology (or loss of its easy availability).
With little or no technology when they arrived but with knowledge they had brought), they used stone or whatever was handy. Top priority was survival. But as time passed and survival was secured, and they had time to sit down and work again with metals, they did so.
To a modern archaeologist this might appear as development of culture, whereas it was really just an expression of culture, now that the question of survival had been settled. So, on the evidence, it is not necessary to assume that men developed over long periods of time. Around the world, men could be at different levels of technology at the same time – just as they are today. AND THE EVIDENCE FOR THAT IS OVERWHELMING
It is almost amusing to watch how industriously and seriously some armchair writers try to discover ape-like features in the remains of such people. I tell you, there are men alive TODAY whose skulls would qualify as “connecting links between man and his alleged ape-like ancestors”. A theory can certainly have a strong influence upon a man’s judgment.
CIVILISATIONS BECOME ISOLATED BY DISASTER
It appears that even after many migrating tribes became trapped in their new surroundings, knowledge of world geography was never completely lost. The great maritime powers around 2000 BC were the Minoans (Cretans), Mycenaeans (Greeks) and Egyptians. There is evidence also of possible cross-world travel by the Indus Valley civilization and the Mesopotamians.
At first a number of highly civilized nations flourished. But their descendants became embroiled in destructive wars. Large cities were reduced to ruins. Commerce on the lanes of travel fell into disuse. There is considerable evidence of the civilized origin of primitive communities.
Although a great part of the evidence is unsatisfactory and mixed with vague tradition, yet for some of it there seems to be substantial and independent proof - even to solid artifacts.
THE LANES REOPENED
Many centuries would elapse before Phoenicia, the new great naval power, would reopen the long ocean lanes. While a few nations retained some memory of their past heritage, it was the Phoenicians who most aggressively used it to their advantage.
In the time of Solomon of Israel (10th century BC), the Phoenicians reopened the lines of commerce that had existed a thousand years before. From this time onward, spreading at a more leisurely rate, the Indo-European and the Semites settled slowly into the areas already opened by the Hamites.
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Concerning the New World, there is good evidence that the colossal buildings now found there were constructed no later than about 1200 BC. Little is known of the ancestors of the Red Indians who spread over North America. They dwelt in enormous cities, with temples and fortresses. They were expert agriculturalists; they domesticated animals and worked mines.
Western experts are very ignorant on American pre-Columbian history. Red Indian history is only explained to white men whom the Indians grow to trust. To others, they will deny all knowledge of their history, including that of the Mounds.
THE POLYNESIANS
Mistaken concepts also prevail among “experts” concerning Pacific history. Scholars say that the long-ago voyages from Hawaii to French Polynesia, from Samoa to Raratonga, and from the historical but unauthenticated Hawaii to Raratonga and then on to New Zealand, were either legend or haphazard voyaging. The Polynesian people do not agree and claim they were deliberate and skillful.
We should not place too much reliance on academic historical theory. Native genealogy and history, backed with archaeology, work much better