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Title Page

The Sojourner of Bibylon

by Stewart Hinds

Table of Contents

Title Page

Introduction

From Almost Nothing to Something

The Way

The Nations

What's in a Name

The End from the Beginning

A Tale of Two Women

Footnotes

Bibliography



Introduction

The title of this boo is a !lay on the similarity of the word bible and the name of

Babylon" I belie#e the similarity is not a coincidence" And I want to say that without

a !ro!er study of history and language$ the Bible is %ust babble$ the language of Babylon" And$ lie Abraham$ any true ser#ant of &od and student of the Bible is a

so%ourner through its stories$ accounts$ !hrases and #erses"

The word bible comes from Byblos" eaning (boo) or (scroll)$ the word is related to the

name of Byblos$ the Phoenician city where modern writing is said to ha#e begun" It

also is related to !a!yrus$ from which we get !a!er and thus boos" But I)m suremany don)t reali*e that the name of Byblos comes by a tortuous route from the name

of Babylon"

I)d lie also to say that the confusion of language that began with the building of Babel$

the namesae of Babylon$ which thwarted man)s attem!t at !reeminence andci#ili*ation$ has also since been used$ by man not &od$ to confuse and thwart any

honest attem!t at understanding the Bible and what &od is saying in it" This attem!tto confuse and su!!ress the truth a!!ears to be !artly intentional and began at

Byblos" And though Byblos was not actually Babylon$ it was in s!irit"

Byblos$ also nown as &ebal in the +ld Testament$ was a merchant sea!ort$ which was

an im!ortant !art of the far,flung shi!!ing and trading em!ire of Phoenicia" Byblos

declined in im!ortance with the rise of nearby Tyre" Bible !ro!hets often condemnedTyre for its worldliness and its ability to tem!t and corru!t men)s souls with its

riches" Byblos only added to corru!tion by its !ower o#er language" Byblos and Tyre

were of the same s!irit$ which is the s!irit of Babylon"

-ere began a long attem!t to !ut sounds into symbols$ !honetics, a word deri#ed from

Phoenicia$ an em!ire of .anaanites$ enemies of Israel and &od)s !eo!le$ where this

de#elo!ed, and bring language into the gras! of man" But here began a long sad %ourney of mutated sounds$ !ermutations$ shifting !ronunciations$ disagreements of

meanings$ dysle/ia in both hearing and writing$ bad translations$ erroneous

transcri!tions$ disagreements of s!elling and sim!le co!ying mistaes" And thus theBible became babble" But thans to those that undertoo to study the bible honestly

and faithfully and to !reser#e it and !ass it on unmolested to later generations$ we

can !iece it bac together and understand what it really means" I ho!e to hel! in this

tas and do a little to blow away some of the fog of confusion"



I ho!e I can add to an understanding of the ancient mind$ and the -ebrew mind$ so that

ho!efully the Bible is clearer and easier to understand" I gi#e credit to great

.hristians of the !ast and !resent for disco#ering great truths of &od)s holyscri!tures" I offer many of my own insights and I e/amine the insights of others" I

don)t claim to ha#e all of the truth" There is no dogma here" What I ha#e to gi#e are

suggestions only" And the most definite suggestion I can gi#e is to study the Bibleand fast and !ray"

Author)s Note

Footnotes were used #ery s!aringly in this te/t" For further #erification and study I ha#e a

bibliogra!hy with many sources at the end of the boo for reference"

From Almost othing to Something

The #ery first #erse of the Bible tells us0 1In the beginning &od created the hea#ens and

the earth"1 The -ebrew word for &od in this #erse is elohim" This is a !lural form and

can mean 2gods3 and 2most high3$ etc" The most liely meaning is 2most high3" The2most high3 is &od the Father$ &od the Son and &od the -oly S!irit" The first cha!ter of

the Bible seems to !resent a contradiction" First$ &od creates the hea#ens and the earth$ but immediately after this we)re told that his creation was 2without form and #oid4 and

darness was u!on the face of the dee!"3

So one might as why &od would create something without form4 would &od create

something e#il5 The Bible answers this" The !ro!het Isaiah wrote that &od creates

darness$ bur forms light4 he maes !eace$ but creates e#il 6Is" 7809:" So both e#il anddarness are only created$ but light is formed and !eace is made" There is a #ery

im!ortant difference in the words create$ mae and form" There is a reason why the

-ebrew language uses different words for these three conce!ts" Form in -ebrew is yat*ar 6Strong)s ;;;8:" .reate in -ebrew is bara 6Strong4s <=87:" .reation has no !ermanentform4 it)s chaotic" It can often loo #ery close to being formed$ but it)s not" So &od

created chaos and he didn)t call it good"

So what &od created at first was e#il> But then he formed it and made it" By the act of

se!arating light from darness he formed the light4 he also said that it was 2good3" So

then he did do something good" &od formed the light by causing !articles to mo#e inwa#es" ?arness is !articles that don)t mo#e in wa#es" But it can !ossibly come close to

mo#ing in wa#es and e#en mimic light" &od can see through darness and light and also

distinguish between them 6Ps" <;@0<<,<=:"

The creation account tells us that the 2S!irit of &od mo#ed u!on the face of the waters"3

Notice that s!irit is ca!itali*ed in the actual #erse5 A !o!ular image is of a do#e flying

o#er water$ %ust abo#e the surface" Another image is of a bree*e or wind blowing u!on thewater" This second image may #ery well get at much of the truth and science in the

account"



&od se!arated the light from the darness by blowing on it in the form of the -oly S!irit

The name of the -oly S!irit is -e" This name means 2breath3" What the Bible is saying

in other words is that &od blew u!on the waters with wind" The waters of chaos and thedarness must ha#e been #ery hot" It)s nown that when fluids mo#e at high s!eeds$ they

cool down whate#er substance they !ass o#er" Air and water are both fluids" Anybody

nows that a bree*e often cools things down" Anyone familiar with refrigeration nowsthat a gas mo#ing at high s!eeds will draw heat out of a substance"

When &od blew on the chaotic dee! and formed light$ he inscribed a circle on it" Thecircle became a mar" The circular mar inscribed is called Ta#$ another name for &od

the Son"< Wa#es of light mo#e in circles$ lie ri!!les on the surface of a !ond" The Bible

refers to this when it states that (&od inscribed a circle on the surface of the dee!) 6Pr#"

0=9: This also means to orbit" atin orbitus means circle" It)s then interesting that e#eryob%ect in the uni#erse mo#es in some ty!e of circle or elli!tical formation" So one of the

first acts in the creation account was the creation of orbits" ost e#erything that follows

the laws of !hysics mo#es in a circular !attern" E#en &ree !hiloso!hy described the

cosmos in terms of layers of s!heres"

The circle is ob#iously an im!ortant figure in many cultures and it is also in the Bible"The !ro!het Isaiah also wrote about circles$ de!ending on the translation 6Is" 7C0==:" The

Some Bible #ersions use the word 2com!ass3 instead of circle$ but both im!ly a circle

formation" The Bible refers to (dee!) and (waters)" This seems to refer to the oceans$ butmay refer to what is nown in &ree myth 2.haos3 which might be -ebrew rahab 6Ps"

@0<C$ Is" 8<0@:" This may well be outer s!ace and the cosmos"

So the dee! and its waters were #ery hot and &od was cooling them down by blowingo#er them" This would cool the waters down$ but also draw out heat" At high enough

s!eeds$ the wind could create light" &od calling forth light at this !oint details this

!rocess" ight would be released"

The account defines the first day and concludes$ (And the e#ening and the morning were

the first day") Notice e#ening comes first5 We usually thin of morning coming first$ andthen e#ening" We now that light is #ery fast" So human beings only see where light has

been$ not where it)s coming from" So would a human being witnessing creation see

e#ening first5 The light would be already disa!!earing before e#en being noticed"

&od made the light into a li#ing being" We are told that he 2called the light ?ay"3 ?ay is

ca!itali*ed in the #erse" When &od calls something$ he is gi#ing it life and !ersonality"

The -ebrew name is Dom or Don" But &od also ga#e life and !ersonality to the darness"We are told he 2called the darness Night"3 Night in -ebrew is eyalah or ilith" Dom

and eyalah would be o!!osed to one another"

Dom was formed into a relationshi! with &od the Son$ as his mother" -is relationshi! to

her would hold him to the laws of !hysics" eyalah had a relationshi! with &od the

Father but she broe it" The moment light was formed into wa#es there was also a wa#e

of darness$ an 2anti,lightwa#e3" But it lost form4 eyalah broe her relationshi! with



&od" &od the Father contained himself in the waters with &od the Son" The -oly S!irit

contained himself in light" All other s!irits were also contained in either light or darness"

After &od formed the light he se!arated waters" The waters were only created at this

!oint and$ lie darness$ they were chaotic" It was !articles mo#ing without any order"

When &od se!arated them he formed the water into wa#es %ust as he had done for light"-e se!arated waters with the firmament" The waters abo#e the firmament were chaotic

and the waters below were ordered into wa#es lie light" What &od was doing in

se!arating the waters was forming sound" -e called the firmament 2-ea#en3" In -ebrewthis word is shamayim" This word might #ery well ha#e the meaning of 2sound water3"

+r e#en 2sound wa#e3$e#en !ossibly 1fire water1" So sound has a lot to do with hea#en"

So at first &od formed light and sound and im!licitly formed sight and hearing" Then&od wanted to gather the liuid waters into one !lace" ost !robably en#ision a seething

sea and &od bounding them with cliffs or beaches$ !lacing the waters in some ind of

giant cosmic bowl" But most might forget that water is also in the form of ice" Ice may be

the only way water can be truly (gathered)" Was &od creating ice on the third day5 It mayha#e already been fro*en on the first day when &od was mo#ing o#er the waters$ but &od

may ha#e used further action later to gather the waters"

Water can also be fro*en with salt" We thin of salt melting water" Anybody li#ing in a

cold climate is familiar with roc salt" Dou throw it on ice or snow and they melt" It)s alsonown that salt water doesn)t free*e" If you could re#erse the !rocess and !ull salt out of

liuid water$ it could free*e" &od was calling forth salt on the third day of creation" The

account hints that he was" -e may ha#e been using salt to free*e the waters" The account

refers to (dry land)" and is italici*ed in most Bible #ersions" This is because there is noword for land used in this #erse" and is inferred from the conte/t" But dry might also

hint at salt" A lot of us now that salt dries out substances" Salt acts to !reser#e things lie

meat by drawing out moisture"

The Bible often remars that the earth was (founded u!on the seas) and (drawn out of

water) 6Ps" =70=$ II Pet" ;08:" But how could the earth stand on water5 It could stand onice" It could also be dry 6and cold: with salt" Is the third day of creation hinting at an ice

age5 Is this the ice so many of us are taught about5

If &od commanded the waters to be gathered into one !lace$ and for dry land to a!!ear$then it is a!!arently a #iolation of his commandment for water to brea these bounds" If

(gathering) of waters refers to ice$ then wouldn)t melted water be a #iolation of &od)s

command5 -ow could there be life then5 -ow could there be ri#ers$ rain$ etc5

There may indeed ha#e been a #iolation during the third day of creation" Seas are almost

always concei#ed of as e#il in the Bible" This may ha#e something to do with the creationaccount in#ol#ing earth and seas" It may be that &od had intended the ice in his creati#e

action and something$ or someone hindered this" any now that glaciers were im!ortant

for car#ing out the land and !ro#iding flat arable s!aces rich with minerals" And as far as

I now glaciers and !olar !ac ice are all made of fresh water$ not salt water"



So was sea water as we now it something &od had not intended5 Also$ how could there

be life if all the water were su!!osed to be in the form of ice5 The solution of the !roblemmay lie in motion" This means that$ !erha!s$ water could be allowed to flow$ only in the

!rocess of mo#ing bac to being in one !lace as ice" This would allow life" The !roblem

with the sea is that it won)t e#er free*e without some further action" So some force wasturning water bac to sea water rather than ice or fresh flowing water" -eat could be

created in the !rocess of melting$ but !erha!s not light" The seas may not ha#e been

conduci#e to life$ or !erha!s higher life"

The earth is always concei#ed of in a good light" The earth may ha#e been in a struggle

with the sea in carrying out &od)s command" This may be what glaciers were$ and are$ all

about" &laciers may ha#e acted to melt water for life without con#erting it bac into saltwater" This could be through friction" &laciers are nown to scra!e along roc and create

dust that enriches soils" Friction is nown to create heat" It could then cause melting"

There might e#en be enough energy to create light" And this may e/!lain where the light

came from before there was any sun" In fact$ the !rocesses of wind and friction could both account for light before there were any stars$ sun or moon" Is the aurora borealis of

the north really caused by glaciers and not the sun$ as we)re commonly taught5 Shouldthe third day of creation be thought of more as an ice world than as anything else5 Were

the trees formed then coniferous$ found usually in cold !laces$ and also dar !laces5

&od the Son mo#ed from the waters and anchored himself to trees and !lants at first" -e

anchored all other s!irits in the trees also" The trees were brought forth with the !ur!ose

of !ulling carbon out of the earth" E/tra carbon was threatening the earth from the

increasingly chaotic darness" The trees would also act as radio towers to communicatewith hea#en and one another"

+n the fourth day of creation &od made the hea#enly bodies to aid in the se!aration oflight and darness" ?arness had de#ol#ed bac into chaos and threatened the form of

light" The hea#enly bodies were !laced in the firmament to !rotect the earth and sound

wa#es that were threatened by the chaotic darness and chaotic waters" They had mo#edfrom the chaotic regions abo#e the firmament$ in the form of comets and asteroids" The

sun$ moon and stars would act to absorb and !ul#eri*e wayward comets and asteroids"

&od s!lit the s!irits he had anchored in trees and left half in the trees !ut the other half in

the hea#enly bodies" &od the Son was anchored to the sun" &od the Father was anchoredto the moon" &od the -oly S!irit remained contained in light"

&od would use the dust created in the !rocess of founding the earth to mae the sun$moon and stars$ and later men and beasts" The light and heat from the sun was !robably

only reflected light" It was light that had already come off the earth through wind and

friction" It)s already commonly nown that the moon reflects the earth)s light" But doesthe sun also reflect the earth)s light$ rather than the other way around5 The sun may ha#e

been created !artly to e#a!orate seawater" If seawater were a !roblem$ &od was finding

ways to remo#e it" And then &od adds that the celestial bodies are to ee! time" ! until

this !oint$ there is no way to ee! time" This is why it may be difficult$ if not im!ossible



to determine %ust how much time 6as we now it: went by in the first three (days) of

creation"

Sea creatures a!!eared on the fifth day of creation with the !ur!ose of !ulling carbon and

salt out of the water" They were only created$ not made or formed" This means that they

were chaotic" They would a!!ear lie sea creatures$ but they were susce!tible tomutation" They could e/ist as large organisms$ or microsco!ic organism lie amoeba"

They were intended to se!arate salt from seawater biologically"

Then &od brought forth beasts and man on the si/th day of creation" But &od did not

sim!ly create beasts as he had done with fish and fowl from the waters" &od made the

beasts" This means that the beasts had a higher structure than the sim!ler fish and sea

fowl" The beats could not mutate into a lower form which had only been created" &oddeclared that he would mae man in his image" But men were only created at first" This

means that men had no more structure than fish and sea fowl4 men could mutate bac into

a lower form initially$ unlie beasts" Beasts were actually more com!le/ in their structure

at first" &od at this !oint had only said he would mae man in his image4 he hadn)tactually done that yet" This would !ut man on an eual le#el with beasts"

&od created men and women both originally" Since they were only created male and

female$ this means they only a!!eared as men and women anatomically" But they were

not made male and female or formed male and female" This means that they had nose/ual desire" They had the bodies of men and women on the outside$ but inside they

were chaotic and had no determined inclination for se/ual acti#ity"

Each man had an e/act female counter!art" The woman was the mold in which the manwas created" But they would not necessarily remain together or e#en desire one another"

The female counter!art of the male is called a shinan in -ebrew" This means a du!licate$

double$ or co!y"

&od ga#e men dominion o#er all other creatures" ?ominion meant actual !ossession"

This means that a man or woman could actually inhabit an animal and control it" Butthere would be a struggle to dominate the animals" en and women would struggle for

mastery o#er an animal" Then men and women began to desire not only to control

animals$ but to dominate other men and women"

anind was commanded by &od to eat only seeds and fruit$ not lea#es or roots"

Animals were commanded by &od to only lea#es and not seeds or fruit" Eating only

lea#es$ fruit and seeds only would not ruin #egetation" But eating roots would destroy#egetation and create desert wastes" Eating meat would mi/ and sometimes fuse the

genetic structure of a human being with the animal they had eaten" In other words one

became what one ate, 2you are what you eat"3 E#il men and women would use the sim!lecommandments on food to dominate animals and manind" There was only !hysical

death then$ because &od had gi#en no commandment regarding death4 there was no

s!iritual death yet"



If a human being broe the commandment they would bring &od)s wrath u!on them"

They would lose dominion o#er animals" They would no longer ha#e any control o#er

animals" Since human beings at that time had only a created structure$ and not a made orformed structure$ their genetic structure would absorb the structure of whate#er animal

they ate" They would be dominated by the dead animal$ its s!irit" By &od)s decree they

could also fall indirectly under the dominion of human beings who had not #iolated&od)s !rohibition on meat"

-uman beings first acuired blood when they #iolated &od)s !rohibition against meat"&od would not fulfill for them his !romise that he would mae them in his image" They

would fore#er lose com!lete human form and ne#er recei#e self,awareness"

Those who had eaten beasts with a more com!le/ structure would begin to changea!!earance" They could com!letely change into the form of whate#er beast they had

eaten$ but ne#er be able to com!letely change bac or control their a!!earance and

characteristics again" They would also not e#er be able to recogni*e themsel#es again"

Those who had eaten fish andGor water fowl would tae on their characteristics but couldcontrol them for a time and also be able to retain com!lete human form for a time 6?n"

=07;:" This is because the fish and water fowl were only created and not made andtherefore had no dominant structure" They would also lose self,awareness fore#er"

Satan and many others too !leasure in the s!ort of hunting" Satan lusted after the !owerand nature of many beasts" -e lusted for meat and drew many into sinning against &od)s

!rohibition" They would free an animal from their control and hunt it for !leasure" Some

would #iolate &od)s commandment against eating meat$ including Satan" Satan and

others also tortured their !rey before eating it" They began a conflict with Hesus and thosethat would not torture and those that would not eat meat at all or hunt" There followed

wars for dominance between those that followed &od and those that followed Satan"

Satan formed a large following" -e de#ised a !lan to dominate all life" -e used se#eral

tactics to draw manind and beasts to himself" Some fell easily to his schemes4 they

might eat meat and Satan would gi#e them a false !romise that they could retrie#e theiroriginal form"

Some were more difficult to fool" Satan would get some to eat lea#es or roots in #iolation

of &od)s commandment" They would not fall under Satan)s direct control or lose theirform" But they would lose control of animals and be susce!tible to attac and see

Satan)s !rowess as a hunter for !rotection"

any of Satan)s most loyal followers hadn)t #iolated any of &od)s commandments and

were not under any of Satan)s control" They could control animals and men that had

#iolated any of &od)s rules" They had control o#er their own a!!earance" They couldactually !artly control Satan himself because Satan had fallen under the dominion of

men" Satan re#ealed his tactics to his most loyal and trusted followers" But he left them

unaware to e#en more of his snares" -is most trusted and loyal followers grew in !ower

o#er men and animals" Satan made them belie#e that they could com!letely control him"



-e bestowed more of his nowledge and !rowess u!on them gi#ing them greater !ower"

Belie#ing they had sa#ed manind from corru!tion$ and seeing their a!!arent dominance

o#er all life$ they began to worshi! an image of man" But they forgot that Satan was !artman" They became confused in their worshi! of either Satan or themsel#es" They didn)t

worshi! &od and most would ultimately be tra!!ed by Satan$ ne#er seeing their blindness

and losing the !romise of being made in the image of &od and recei#ing self,awareness"

any that had #iolated &od)s commandment re!ented" They hel!ed Hesus to !rotect

others that had not #iolated &od)s commandment" Those that had died to !rotect men andanimals from being corru!ted or eaten would be rewarded by being made into the

sera!him$ cherubim and angels"

Satan had acted to ee! many men from corru!tion$ but only for his own !ur!oses" -ewas illed in the struggles" -e had nown of &od)s !romise to mae man in his image

and sought the fa#or and glory of &od by acuiring the attributes of many beasts he had

slain and eaten" -e had falsely re!ented of #iolating the ban on meat" any others that

did not re!ent and were not illed were allowed by &od to sur#i#e for a time"

The cherubim and sera!him were fully forgi#en by &od for #iolating his commandment$ but he would not fulfill for them his !romise of maing them in his image" -e ga#e them

an e/alted status in hea#en but at the cost of losing total self,awareness" They would not

be allowed to now that they were !art man and !art beast" This is why the #isions ofE*eiel and Hohn saw them with many faces"

any did not #iolate &od)s commandment against meat$ but they #iolated his

commandment on what ty!e of #egetation to eat" They didn)t lose any control o#er theira!!earance or characteristics and they didn)t lose self,awareness" They lost dominion

o#er animals" They sought their former dominion of beasts through worshi! and

unnowingly !assed on their own sinful nature to beasts" So$ for e/am!le$ ones that hadeaten anything without concern would !ass on this characteristic to goats$ or ones that ate

roots would !ass on this characteristic to horses$ etc" They would also fall under the

dominion of men who had not corru!ted themsel#es and also be susce!tible to beingattaced and eaten by animals since they could no longer control them"

ore and more men and women fell to corru!tion$ but Hesus and his followers attem!ted

to !rotect them from further corru!tion" Hesus warned that animals had become a threat toany who had #iolated &od)s commandments" any hel!ed Hesus in the struggle as they

could" +thers hel!ed Satan in his uest for dominion" &od would not yet brea his

!romise to them to mae them in his image" -e would bring them bac to life and allowthem time to re!ent" Those that had eaten roots and would not re!ent would gradually

become goats" Those that had eaten lea#es would gradually turn into shee!$ but would

also become goats if they did no re!ent"

When men$ women and animals died their bodies would be burned on !yres" In cha!ter

two of the &enesis account the !hrase 2+? &od3 is used instead of %ust &od e#ery

time$ after it says &od rested from his labors" This !hrase would be Heho#ah elohim in



-ebrew" Translated it means 2the most high Heho#ah3" Heho#ah is a !ersonal name"

Elohim is %ust a descri!tion" This !hrase refers to &od the Father alone" The -ebrew root

word yashen that forms the basis for the name Hesus e#en has one meaning of 2slee!3"<

&od the Father$ Heho#ah$ would tae one of those that had died and bury him instead of

burning his body" This was Adam" &od also too many animals and buried them in the&arden of Eden as well" While Hesus rested and sle!t$ Heho#ah !lanted the &arden of

Eden on the se#enth day of creation" In the first si/ days of creation Hesus$ Heho#ah and

the -oly S!irit had acted together in creation" But Heho#ah acted alone in forming Adam"Adam)s name means 2dust3 or 2clay3$ as he was taen out of dust or clay" The name

came also to mean manind in general" It may also ha#e the meaning of (taen from the

ground)" The Semitic root word ad is a #erb which means (to tae)$ (to gather) or (to

hunt)" Adam was taen out of the ground" &round in -ebrew is adamah"

The name and word adam also has the meaning of (red) or (ruddy)$ a!!arently from the

reddish clay in the iddle East" The name Edom seems to be the same name$ meaning

(red) or (ruddy) also" This was another name for Esau who had either red hair or a ruddycom!le/ion or both" As for the connection to clay$ it)s interesting to switch the order of

the consonants in the word adam in the !rocess and rather common !henomenon nownas metathesis" +ne gets md" Is English mud of the same deri#ation5 ud comes from

clay" Who nows5

There may be e#en an additional meaning in the name Adam" A !artially connected

Semitic word is abad which means (to labor) or (to wor)" It also means (to destroy)" This

may be in the sense that destruction is often an essential !art of labor and in culti#ation"

This can be seen in the analogy of the (wheat and the tares) of Bible !arable0 the tares aredestroyed in the culti#ation of wheat" E#en English bad might ha#e a deri#ation from this

root word"

So one meaning of abad is liely (to gather fruit)$ as with culti#ating" The root abad

seems to be a com!ound of ab$ which means (fruit) and ad$ which means (gather)" This

-ebrew word is e#en the one used in one of &od)s first commands 6&en" =0<8:" Adamwas also commanded (to be fruitful and multi!ly)$ which could be taen as similar in

meaning" The -ebrew suffi/ ,m indicates a !lurality and means a multi!le or

magnification of something" is also !refi/ed to mean a magnification in some -ebrew

words such as magen$ (great) 6ma: (shield) 6gen:" So the name Adam has a secondarymeaning of (fruitful) 6as in culti#ate or labor: ad$ and multi!le or magnified$ am" So

within his name itself may be found the #ery first command that &od ga#e him$ (Be

fruitful and multi!ly")

The generic -ebrew word for manind$ adam$ is the name of the first man named in the

Bible" It)s interesting to note that the &ree word demos$ meaning (!eo!le in general) or(common man) has the same main root consonants as adam" ie the name of Adam$ the

name of Eden may also be !artly lined to the -ebrew root word ad or ed for gather$

wor or labor$ as in (be fruitful)" The ed of Eden may ha#e the meaning of (fruitful) as in

(tillable ground)$ ground where one is able to culti#ate" The root ed also has the meaning



of (mist)$ (fog) or (misty)" The creation account 6&en" =0J: #aguely refers to the fact that a

mist used to rise from the ground at one time" The relation of this meaning with the

meaning (to gather) is not uite clear"

The root ed has the meaning of encom!assing or en#elo!ing lie fog or smoe" It also

refers to wealth$ what one acuires from gathering$ and the !assage of time$ as aconce!tion of re!etition as with labor 6interestingly (mists of time)5:" A related Arabic

word is uwd$ which is nown as a smoe from incense" &ree eth is !robably related" The

word ether is deri#ed" The original &ree im!lied burning or scorching and thus smoe"This might lead one to concei#e of the blacness of s!ace$ once held to be ether$ as

smoe 6from the burning of stars5:" The only connection to fog or smoe and gathering

that has been suggested is that a fog or mist condenses and en#elo!s$ which is a loose

form of gathering$ that is$ as a gathering mist or fog" A!!arently when one gathers$ one(en#elo!s) or (contains) what has been collected" It may be that the root word ed too on

a double meaning from its association with Eden"

The n in Eden !oints to a meaning of something s!ringing$ lie water from the ground orri#er from a land" The -ebrew word for s!ring is en" It is commonly found in !lace

names such as Engedi$ (s!ring of the id)$ Enrogel$ (well of the fuller)$ Enrimmon$(s!ring of the !omegranate)$ Entannim$ (dragon well)$ etc" The word en a!!ears to be

cognate with the word ayin$ eyin or eyn$ -ebrew for (eye)" The word came to mean

(s!ring)$ (fountain) or (well) in one sense" Notice that English fountain e#en has ain at theend of it$ close to ayin" The word seems to ha#e been a!!lied in the sense of a s!ring

being an o!ening in the ground lie an eye and !erha!s e#en (crying) or gushing water

lie an eye does"

It also seemed to ha#e the meaning of a son s!ringing from a father$ a mother$ or wine

s!ringing from a wine!ress" The n seemed to mean both the source$ lie roc and

fatherGmother$ or the !roduct$ lie a s!ring$ ri#er$ wine or son" In fact$ the -ebrew wordfor wine is yayin" Assyrian was inu" +ne can e#en see it in English wine" The -ebrew

word for wine might #ery well mean something lie (tears of the ord)" The initial y for

(lord) was a!!arently added to ayin" To the modern western mind there doesn)t seem to be a connection between water and roc" But to ancient !eo!le$ es!ecially of the iddle

East$ there was a common connection" Water was often retrie#ed from auifers below

ground" en dro#e shafts into bare roc to access #aluable wells of water" And readers of

the Bible well now the story of oses and the water from the roc 6Num" =C0,<<:" TheBible)s descri!tion of the ri#ers of Eden may well indicate that a s!ring of water rose out

of the ground and became the four ri#ers of Eden" It must ha#e been a #ery !owerful

s!ring to become four ri#ers and it !robably came out of bare roc" The name Eden then became a common word for a fruitful and lu/uriant !lace of abundant and flowing water"

Interestingly$ the root consonants dn of Eden are often found in the names of ri#ers in

many !laces"

The middle of The &arden of Eden was where Herusalem in Israel now is" The Tree of

ife was originally !lanted where Hesus .hrist was crucified" The western edge of Eden

was located in some !art of where Africa now is" The Nile i#er is !art of the i#er



Pishon" Its flow was altered o#er time" The s!ring of the i#er &ihon still flows out at

Herusalem 6< Ki"<0;;$ ;$ 784 = .h" ;=0;C4;;0<7:" Parts of the i#er &ihon are now the

Hordan i#er 6&enesis <;0<C:" The Tigris and Eu!hrates ri#ers still form the eastern edgeof Eden" Eden is an ancient western Semitic word for 2a !lace of flowing water3$ a

lu/uriant s!ot$ as with an oasis" any names of ri#ers$ es!ecially in Euro!e and the

iddle East ha#e the consonants dn in their names" Some e/am!les0 The ?anube i#er$The ?on i#er$ The ?neister i#er$ The ?nie!r i#er" The root dn seems to ha#e been a

fairly wides!read and common term for ri#er or flowing water" E#en the Indus i#er in

India follows the !attern$ though re#ersed in order$ including both consonants n an d"

The Hordan i#er forming the boundary between modern Israel and Hordan also has this

dn in it" The dn usually a!!ears in the form of den$ dan or don" ost etymologists today

will tell you that the name Hordan means (ra!idly descending) due to the ri#er)s manystee! descents on its course" But I offer another deri#ation" It may #ery well mean (gore)

(dan) or (ri#er gore)" +ne meaning of the English word gore is a (triangular !iece of land

formed by the confluence of two ri#ers)" &eogra!hically it is the land at the !oint where

two ri#ers %oin$ the land bounded by both ri#ers" This is one, !robably little nown,meaning of the word" According to the Bible se#eral ri#ers %oined together in Eden$ either

at their sources or at some confluence" E#en English garden may #ery well mean (thegarden of eden)$ though this is not any acce!ted deri#ation of the word in mainstream

scholarly circles"

Adam was the first man to be formed by &od" As Hesus sle!t on the se#enth day of

creation$ Heho#ah too a !art of him and !laced it into Adam)s body" This brought Adam

bac to life and he became formed when Heho#ah breathed into his nostrils the breath of

life" This means he had the highest form of com!le/ity" -e could not mutate into a lowerform of life by eating meat nor could he be altered by it" -e also had se/ual desire$ not

%ust se/ual features" A !art of his body would be reuired to fertili*e the tree of life" No

one else yet other than &od was a li#ing soul" Heho#ah himself caused #egetation to growin the &arden of Eden" Adam)s role was to ee! the garden growing" -e was to ee!

corru!t men and women out of Eden, many had sur#i#ed the wars of the !ast" Adam was

also to ee! them and wild animals from eating the #egetation"

&od also had !laced a !art of Hesus into the animals he had buried" This raised them from

the dead" When Adam named them it ga#e him dominion o#er them" Heho#ah caused

Adam to fall into a dee! slee! so that he could tae out the !art of Hesus that he had !utinto Adam" &od would form E#e from this !art$ the rib""

With Adam began the !ractice of burial at death" But many continued the !ractice offuneral !yres" By the time Adam was formed in the &arden of Eden$ Satan had acuired

dominion o#er e#ery form of life$ including men" -e buried a sea ser!ent under the seed

of the tree of the nowledge of good and e#il to fertili*e it" The tree itself was under thecontrol of Satan by way of the fish which was under his control"

&od)s curse and warning to Adam about the tree of the nowledge of good and e#il only

a!!lied to Adam himself and not to E#e 6&en" =0<J,<9:" Dou can see this by the use of the



word thou 6at least in the King Hames Lersion:$ which is a singular and intimate form"

Somehow E#e found out about this warning" It is assumed that Adam told E#e not to eat

from the forbidden tree" So did the curse of death only a!!ly to Adam5 This brings %usthow the ser!ent lied to E#e into better focus"

Satan s!oe to E#e out of the tree of the nowledge of good and e#il" -e di#erted man)sattention from the tree of life by getting Adam and E#e to eat from the tree of the

nowledge of good and e#il" -e also attem!ted to destroy them by bringing &od)s wrath

u!on them" +ne com!letely under Satan)s control got into Eden and dug u! the seed ofthe tree of life in ho!es of !lanting it in the future"

Satan tried to destroy Adam through E#e" But in so doing$ he left o!en the door for Hesus"

And I would guess that this was because Satan didn)t understand the dee! mysteries of&od" And I thin this has led to some confusion about the origin of sin in the mainstream

church" I thin it has been !assed along without being fully e/amined" A main doctrine of

.hristianity is that sin came into the world by one man$ Adam 6om" 80<=$ etc":" This

seems !lain and sim!le enough" And I would guess most !ass through this doctrine withease" Notice that no mention is made of the woman)s role in bringing sin into the world"

E#e)s sin is left out"

We see the ser!ent in to! form in this account 6&en" ;07,8:" Satan not only lies but !lays

with words lie the master lawyer that he is" And he embeds the lies within the truthmasterfully" -e im!lies many things which he doesn)t say directly either" S!oen lie a

!erfect fored tongue$ many fors> Adam himself may ha#e mistaenly belie#ed that

&od)s command a!!lied to E#e also and he a!!arently told her so" She a!!ears to ha#e

!assed on the mistae to the ser!ent and also !robably unintentionally added that &odhad commanded not to e#en touch the forbidden tree and its fruit 6&en" ;0=,;:" I would

assume this is a serious !roblem with !eo!le in general"

It)s not clear %ust how Satan new of &od)s warning$ but he certainly intentionally !lays

on the already distorted warning" The ser!ent re!eats the warning bac to E#e$ but he

uses the word ye instead of thou" De is a !lural form$ a!!lying to both Adam and E#e"Satan was !erha!s reinforcing a mistaen belief that the curse of death a!!lied to Adam

and E#e both" So here we see Satan mi/ing truth with a lie" -e was telling her the truth

that they both would not die$ but at the same time he im!lies that Adam would not die" -e

also reinforces E#e)s !ossibly mistaen belief that the curse of death a!!lied to her aswell as to Adam"

The ser!ent clearly tals in (double,s!ea)4 he seems to be s!eaing out of both sides ofhis mouth at once$ the classic (fored tongue) of a snae" -e maes se#eral statements$

many of which are not recorded$ by im!lying e#en more things by what he actually does

say" -e says$ 2Dou surely shall not die 6&od)s lying:" For &od nows that in the day youeat from it your eyes will be o!ened$ and you will be lie &od$ nowing good and e#il

6&od is !owerless to sto! you from eating it and is ee!ing you from being lie himself:"

-e also a!!ears to be saying$ 2Dou both will not die if you eat from that tree 6Adam will

not die if he eats from the tree:"3 We often underestimate the sinister !ower of Satan)s



lies" -ere$ he #eils one lie within another lie or distortion" -e tells the truth 6assumedly:

that both will not die as a totality$ but lies that Adam himself will not die$ as a !art of that

totality"

&od himself #erifies that Satan was telling the truth when he said E#e would be lie &od"

I thin it)s a misconce!tion commonly s!read by ministers and others who claim Satan)slie and !ur!ose is to get !eo!le to desire and attem!t to be lie &od" This seems clearly

false" First of all$ &od states it is !ossible to be lie &od in &enesis ;0==" Second$ Satan

ne#er said E#e would be &od$ but lie &od" E#en he didn)t lie here" -is lie was aboutdeath" What he did$ was to get E#e to thin she could be lie &od without death or

conseuence"

The really sinister thing the de#il did was to !lay on E#e)s desire and tem!t her intoreaching for something with false moti#es0 he got her to sin with an em!ty !romise and to

carry out a desire without acnowledging the conseuences" In other words$ E#e was

basically being la*y and cowardly$ 6e#en though she was mistaen that the warning may

not ha#e e#en a!!lied to her:" She wanted to ha#e her cae and eat it too" She wantedsomething for nothing" She allowed herself to be fooled into gras!ing for a desirable

thing$ but without !aying for it" And Adam might ha#e done something similar" I belie#ethis was the true nature of their sin and what is behind most sin"

Adam and E#e were trying to get something for nothing" This seems to be a commonmalady of the human race" ?esiring to be lie &od wasn)t the worst thing about what

Adam and E#e did" &od ne#er said this was wrong" What was wrong was their moti#e" I

thin it would ha#e been better if they had said they wanted to be lie &od and were

willing to die for it if they had to and then eaten from the tree" +f course there)s a !arado/ here" If you eat from the tree you gain the nowledge of good and e#il" But then

you die" So what good is it5 But still$ the moti#e would ha#e been right" What Satan did

to E#e first and Adam through her$ gi#es us a good glim!se into how Satan o!erates" -e !resented E#e with a false choice" She acted according to this false choice" Why E#e did

not act according to the real and original choice is not substantiated" Perha!s E#e would

ha#e made her choice according to the real choice in time$ but the de#il mo#ed in beforethis ha!!ened"

The de#il did also basically assault E#e when he twisted the truth and !resented a false

choice" What he was !robably doing here was attem!ting to tae the !lace of &od andho!ing to become a god to Adam and E#e" -e had little !ower in the matter" -e could

neither ill Adam and E#e nor gi#e them the nowledge of good and e#il" -e could only

communicate" And communicate he did"

It is not clear what Adam)s moti#es were when he ate from the tree of the nowledge of

good and e#il" But the Bible clearly tells us that Adam was not decei#ed by the ser!ent"So it would a!!ear that he didn)t eat the forbidden fruit because of the ser!ent)s lie 6I

Timothy =0<7:" Why he ate$ I thin we)ll %ust ha#e to as Adam himself if we get the

chance"



Adam might be seen as a coward" ?id he eat the forbidden fruit only when he saw that

E#e had not died5 +ne might thin so at first glance" But remember$ Adam was !robably

uite intelligent and also much more s!iritually aware than we are" -e was but a ste!from &od and in a world not long yet under corru!tion" It was !robably not that sim!le"

Adam clearly sinned when he ate from the forbidden tree$ according to &od(s clear

statement" +thers ha#e suggested that he ate to redeem E#e$ or at least to share her fateout of lo#e" This is !robably closer to the truth about Adam)s moti#es" It may be !ossible

that Adam indeed had the !ower to redeem E#e as .hrist redeemed manind" Adam had

been made directly by &od" -e had no sin" -e may ha#e eaten the deadly fruit in !ro!itiation for E#e)s transgression" aybe he was dying to redeem her from death" Was

he trying to be the sa#ior5 The hero5 I would say most men are lie that"

+r did he only thin he was dying to sa#e E#e5 emember$ the curse of death may notha#e e#en a!!lied to E#e" aybe Adam was !resuming to be sa#ior 6lie most men

would$ I would #enture to say:" Adam may ha#e lea!t to an erroneous conclusion out of

some desire to !lay the .hrist" But there may ha#e been nothing to sa#e since E#e may

not ha#e been under the command" Another im!ortant !oint is that Adam committed a sin !erha!s thining he would sa#e E#e" But I would guess that, if there were anything that

needed to be sa#ed in the first !lace, committing a sin would not wor" I thin mostwould agree that one sin cannot be undone by committing another sin" We all now the

old saying$ (Two wrongs don)t mae a right(" An act 6hy!othetical !erha!s: lie what

Adam did is certainly different from what .hrist did to sa#e manind" .hrist did notcommit any sin to sa#e us4 he became sin itself" All Adam did was to end u! with the

need for a sa#ior himself"

+ne might as here$ why &od didn)t mae clear from the start what all the curses would be$ should the forbidden fruit be eaten5 The only stated warning was the !unishment of

death$ and that may ha#e been only on Adam" Why did he add additional curses to Adam$

and then on E#e and the ser!ent also5 +nly Adam had transgressed a clear command of&od" It)s not clear whether &od re!laced the curse of death !ronounced o#er Adam with

different curses" &od had not made any clear warning that these curses would be

im!osed" This is not to say that &od has no right to im!ose a curse at any time" Perha!s&od was e/ercising his own free will and !rerogati#e to act$ %ust as the three

transgressors had done" There might be a widely,held misunderstanding of %ust what

Adam and E#e)s sins were at the beginning" ost might say that going against &od)s

command was the sin" But only Adam seems to ha#e broen an e/!ress warning of &od"Adam is the only one that clearly sinned" The Bible doesn)t state that &od had said

anything directly to E#e" It may be that E#e actually didn)t sin at all by eating the

forbidden fruit" Whate#er the case$ E#e had both Adam and &od to doubt$ when she wastem!ted by the ser!ent" Perha!s E#e thought that Adam was lying to her about &od and

what &od commanded"

So what was E#e)s sin then5 The best guess is that she disobeyed her husband 6de!ending

on %ust what Adam had told her:" Another guess is that not only did she disobey her

husband$ but she did it by listening to someone else 6and not &od:" Some belie#e that E#e

actually had se/ual relations with the ser!ent" This may be going too far" But E#e did



slee!" In the case of a*arus and others$ Hesus uses another word$ olmao$ which means

either literal slee! or literal death" Also$ in the case of a*arus$ Hesus s!eas !lainly that

a*arus is dead 6Hohn <<0<<,<7:" But I don)t thin he is being trite or eu!hemistic whenhe refers to death as slee!" Es!ecially in the case of the girl$ was this a !icture of the

dormant E#e5<

E#ery !erson born is descended !artly or fully from Adam and E#e" E#eryone has a little

bit of E#e in them" They ha#e the )seed of the woman) which is Hesus 6.ol" <0=9:5 But the

!roblem is that e#eryone also has a little bit of Adam in them$ a little bit of death$ (and alittle lea#en lea#ens the whole lum!) 6< .or" 80J:" The seed must be germinated by Hesus

to grow4 it must be awaened" This brings Hesus) !arable of the (sower) into more #i#id

detail 6att" ;0<;$ ar 70;$ ue 08:"

The correct doctrine of original sin then ought to be that e#ery human being is born

s!iritually dead$ cut off from &od 6= .or" 80<7:" Nothing they do can e#er change it4 they

must be sa#ed by .hrist" But$ although they are s!iritually dead$ they ha#e free will to do

good or e#il" But that really doesn)t matter> They still can)t remo#e the curse of death"The best they can do is go to slee! So the false doctrine of original sin and total de!ra#ity

taught in most mainstream churches today is really a moot !oint$ ne#ertheless all themore dangerous"

&od was surely not merely angry at Adam and E#e for their sins" -is curses had goodreasons" -e had the right to act forwardly towards them as they had done to him" But as

he does time and again in the Bible$ he turns curses into blessings" +ne of the main

!ur!oses of his curses on Adam and E#e a!!ears to be to carry out his command of (be

fruitful and multi!ly)" -e was telling Adam and E#e that they would carry out thatcommand" The !roblem for them was that it would not be en%oyable" They would still

carry out &od)s !lan$ but because they sinned$ it would be with sorrow$ not %oy"

Adam and E#e e#entually didn)t do what Satan ho!ed for them to do" That was to mae

him their god instead of the real &od" This is a fairly well,nown .hristian conce!t and

one which I belie#e is #ery true" Adam and E#e were redeemed by a restored faith in&od" Surely they were bitter$ sorrowful and angry o#er what ha!!ened to them" They

could ha#e blamed &od and re%ected him" They then naturally would ha#e turned to the

de#il" They might ha#e e#en belie#ed the de#il$ e#en after what he had done to them"

Since they died s!iritually first and the !hysical death would come in time$ they couldha#e reasoned that they hadn)t died" They also could ha#e reasoned that the de#il was

also right that they would become lie &od$ which they did" They could ha#e easily

belie#ed that the de#il was right" In their minds this could reinforce a re%ection of &od"

Adam and E#e became infected by elements of the ser!ent when they ate the forbidden

fruit" But they would not fall under the control or be mutated because they had beenformed and were im!er#ious to any other creature)s genetic structure" But their offs!ring

would carry this 2ser!ent seed3" Some would succumb to it and others would not" The

atin root word of English #irus means !oison$ but it is also awfully similar to the atin

root for worm and for that matter the atin root for man$ #ir" The Bible e#en warns about



the !roblem of worms 6ar @077:" It tells men not to thin of themsel#es any better than

worms 6Is" 7<0<7:"

any !arasites ha#e a snae,lie or worm,lie form" &od)s curse on Adam and E#e

would be !artly fulfilled by bacteriua$ #iruses and !arasites" Insects could also carry out

the curses" E#en the name Beel*ebub$ a name commonly a!!lied to Satan$ means (lord of the flies)"

This brings the Hewish dietary and ritual laws into greater contrast" They were almostcertainly a !rotection against such contamination" The Bible warns of the ground being

!olluted and there were rituals for ee!ing it clean$ such as remo#ing a dead body from a

gallows$ etc" .ontaminants might remain in !eo!le for many generations$ reminding one

of the +ld Testament bans on allowing foreigners and !ersons of uncertain origin into thecongregation of Israel only after se#eral generations" aybe !art of the reason &od cast

Adam and E#e from the &arden of Eden was to get away from the ground which was

contaminated with the cursed Satan as a to/in" And later$ &od wanted manind to s!read

across the earth for the same reason$ which e/!lains why he broe u! the efforts of Nimrod at Babel" When &od cursed the ser!ent he transformed the tree into a snae" This

transformation is echoed in the e#ent of oses) wooden staff being changed into a snae"It is also echoed again but re#ersed in the e#ent of &od s!eaing to oses from the

burning bush"

The curse on the ser!ent has more than one meaning" That the ser!ent was cursed to )go

on its belly) doesn)t refer to !hysical form$ but rather function" In other words$ the curse

meant that the ser!ent was fated to be controlled by its a!!etite alone" This would include

food first and foremost and other !assions" To (go on one)s belly) hars to (whose god istheir belly) 6Phil" ;0<@:" The ser!ent was cursed to ha#e a !er#erse relationshi! with food"

This meant ha#ing no self,control regarding food and also an im!lied disres!ect for it" It

also meant no discernment for food and a lac of concern for safety$ leading ultimately todestruction"

The curse on the ser!ent was also bad for Adam and E#e because they were no longer to!of the food chain4 the ser!ent was !laced abo#e them" They were added to the ser!ent(s

menu" &od said the ser!ent would eat dust all its life4 this includes Adam who &od said

was taen from dust and E#e by coming from Adam$ by e/tension"

The ser!ent would eat meat$ something !roscribed by &od" Put bluntly$ the ser!ent and

his !rogeny would eat !eo!le" E#en more bluntly$ the ser!ent would ultimately desire

blood because )life is in the blood) as &od said through oses" In the desire for life and !ower$ the ser!ent would eat anything to meet this goal and would find that blood was the

most !owerful source of food$ human blood e#en more so$ howe#er twisted$ e#en

containing life itself"

Adam)s curse was similar to the ser!ent)s in many ways" Adam was cursed to need food$

but Adam would not lose control o#er his relationshi! with food" -e was cursed to toil

for bread$ but not to brea &od)s command against eating meat" Adam)s curse actually



contained a blessing" -e was gi#en a healthy relationshi! and res!ect for his food4 he had

to wor for it" The ser!ent didn)t necessarily e#en ha#e to wor for his food" Adam was

not !ut under the control of food"

The ser!ent !robably uicly began to desire to eat !eo!le" At first it !robably ate them

slowly$ on a small microsco!ic le#el" Since there were only few !eo!le at first$ theser!ent had to act as a !arasite" ater$ as the !o!ulation grew$ the ser!ent could eat !eo!le

outright$ attacing them in the form of an animal or other creature" In fact$ !erha!s the

ser!ent has waited for the !o!ulation to grow to gigantic !ro!ortions to fill u! the menu$as it were" Perha!s Adam and E#e then later ate contaminated food with such bacteria or

!arasites in it" They were then doomed to die$ at least !hysically"

The !ay

When Adam and E#e were cast from Eden$ &od !laced four cherubim in the Eu!hratesi#er$ at the east Eden 6&enesis ;0=7:" These cherubim are still there today 6#"@0<7:"

Their bodies are bound to the i#er$ but their s!irits are free to roam" Two of thecherubim are ichael and &abriel"

It)s interesting to note that gra!es and also seawater both are almost identical to bloodchemically" This hints at another !ossible reason why it was of the utmost im!ortance for

&od to hinder access to the tree of life$ with #ery dar im!lications" It may be that the

tree of life needed blood and bone to fertili*e it and cause it to germinate" It may e#en be

that only Adam)s blood alone$ or his descendants)$ would cause the tree to germinate and !roduce" Would he ha#e needed to cut himself5 +r cut E#e5 Assuming this$ it)s not hard

to see then why &od too uic action to ee! manind from the tree" E#il men mightha#e sacrificed Adam and his direct bloodline to get the tree to !roduce" This might ha#e been a danger %ust if e#il men merely belie#ed such sacrifices would do that$ howe#er

correct or incorrect they were" +f course$ they would ha#e had to now where the tree of

life was and what was reuired" That -ebrew for blood is dam is com!elling$ and that-ebrew for (to blush) and (rosy) is adam"

At first it seems absurd and horrific to thin that the tree of life somehow needed human blood to grow or !roduce" But it)s not that hard to belie#e" We use chemicals that are

found in blood as fertili*er" We use feces and e#en ground u! bone as fertili*er4 dead

bodies mae good fertili*er" Blood !robably could be a good fertili*er" It)s ghastly to

contem!late the reuirements for a good,si*ed field>

There are e#en more connections between blood and the tree of life" It may be %ust

coincidence$ but the Bible has some #erses that eerily echo bac to the tree of life" Itstates that )life is in the blood) 6e#" <90<<,<7$ etc":" In the +ld Testament the Bible

forbids cutting oneself 6e#" =<08:" and is !olluted by blood$ but also cleansed by it

6Num" ;80;;:" Blood e#en cries out to &od from the ground 6&en" 70<C:"



&od meant to ee! men from getting to the tree of life" At least he meant to ee! the

wrong men from getting to it and #ice #ersa" The cherubim !laced at The Eu!hrates i#er

were !laced to (ee! the way of the tree of life$) the King Hames #ersion of the Bible saysin &enesis ;0=7" +ther #ersions ha#e (guard) instead of (ee!)" -ow would they do this5

It hel!s to loo at the definition of (way)" Was it an actual way as in a !ath that the

cherubim were guarding or ee!ing secret5 I thin in some ways yes" I belie#e this because I belie#e there was an actual tree of life in an actual location" But the word (way)

in this #erse most liely also means manner$ as in the manner that men go to or see the

tree of life"

I)m sure many ha#e wondered why &od bloced manind from the tree of life after

Adam and E#e sinned 6&enesis ;0==,=7:" As .hristians we are taught of &od)s gift of

eternal life through .hrist" So &od)s act and !roclamation to bloc access to the tree oflife seem counter to his nature" ?idn)t he want manind to li#e fore#er5 +n first reading

it a!!ears that &od doesn)t want manind to ha#e eternal life" But on closer ins!ection

we might find other reasons for what &od was doing"

&od didn)t e/!licitly say he didn)t want manind to li#e fore#er" And was he maing it

im!ossible for manind to get to the tree of life5 It seems he was only maing ite/tremely difficult$ not totally im!ossible" Was he maing it something that had to be

earned5 The line (lest he stretch out his hand$ and tae also from the tree of life$ and eat$

and li#e fore#er) could be translated$ )so that he doesn)t stretch out his handM)" But itmight also mean$ )in case he stretches out his handM) These two translations don)t mean

e/actly the same thing" The first leads to a remedy of !re#ention and negation" The

second leads to conditions$ not necessarily !re#ention and negation$ but merely

hindrances" If you read between the lines he might ha#e been saying$ (in case he reachesout and taes from the tree of life and eats from it$ I will mae it hard for him to do that

6he will ha#e to earn e#ery bit of it4 manind will ha#e to get it by good honest hard wor

and merit:)" itself" ather$ the Bible might seem to im!ly that the tree of life was notnecessarily self,sufficient" This is similar to the story of Elisha)s gra#e 6= Kings <;0=C,

=<:" Elisha)s bones were able to raise another man bac to life$ but not Elisha himself>

.oncerning the tree of life itself$ there are some uestions or !u**les that seem to arise

from it and statements in the Bible about it" Assuming it was a real tree and not %ust a

symbol of some greater truth$ some may then uestion what is said about it" For instance$

&od did not want Adam and E#e to eat from the tree of life after they had sinned" Weassume this is for their own good and further$ that !erha!s they would ha#e been loced

!ermanently in a sort of sinful eternal life$ !erha!s a !ermanent state of death" But$ if we

assume that &od holds the !ower to grant eternal life or eternal death$ why then would itmatter if Adam andGor E#e$ or anyone else$ for that matter$ ate from this tree5

.ouldn)t &od correct the error5 According to Bible scholars$ we see that &od correctedthe !roblem for Adam and E#e$ by illing some animal and !ro#iding clothes with the

sin" This was an atonement of blood$ which$ scholars state$ !oints to the death of .hrist$

and further that Adam and E#e new .hrist would come$ were .hristians and foresaw the

life and death of .hrist$ though the Bible doesn)t state this e/!licitly in these terms"



Another uestion0 why did &od ha#e to ha#e the tree of life guarded with the flaming

sword5 .ouldn)t -e %ust ha#e illed the tree$ or withered it5 ?id the flaming sword illthe tree5 Is the tree still ali#e$ or its descendants5 ?id it !roduce seeds that grew into

more trees5 These seem lie silly uestions$ but why is this in the Bible then5 The tree of

life was a!!arently an uncommon tree" It had either few seeds or seeds that were hard toculti#ate" If it had seeds that could easily germinate$ the tree of life would ha#e s!read

and &od would ha#e to guard each tree" aybe the tree)s fruit taes a #ery long time to

grow 6ages: or grow only with rigorous care or in #ery rare soils" Whate#er$ the nature ofsuch a tree$ as it)s described in the Bible$ is uite mystifying"

This all raises further uestions of eternal life0 Are all !eo!le meant to li#e fore#er$ in

some form or another5 The .hristian answer is an uneui#ocal yes" But$ going bac tothe &arden of Eden$ it a!!ears that Adam and E#e)s future state was unclear$ at least if

they were to eat neither from the tree of life nor from the tree of the nowledge of good

and e#il" What would it ha#e been lie if they had not eaten from either tree5 +n the one

hand$ they would not ha#e died" +n the other$ eternal life would not be assured" Weassume$ by default though$ they would ha#e li#ed fore#er$ not ha#ing eaten from the tree

of the nowledge of good and e#il" And after Adam)s sin$ doesn)t &od)s statement thatthe tree of life was now a danger$ seem to indicate that Adam was not already going to

li#e fore#er" The statement confusingly seems to indicate Adam was not going to li#e

fore#er$ unless he had eaten from the tree of life" Another thing one can notice in thewords of the Bible is that it ne#er states that &od told Adam and E#e of the e/istence of

the tree of life" The Bible does indeed clearly state that the tree of life was in the garden$

but nowhere does it state whether &od told Adam and E#e about it andGor what would

ha!!en if they ate from it" Are we to assume that &od did tell them about it5 +r do weassume$ if they had not sinned$ that Adam and E#e would ha#e e#entually eaten from the

tree of life unnowingly5

And lastly$ if Adam and E#e didn)t s!ecifically now of the tree of life$ was &od afraid

that they would eat from the tree of life accidentally5 Also$ would one bite of the fruit

from the tree of life gi#e eternal life$ or was it ongoing nourishment" A!!arently one bitega#e eternal life or &od wouldn)t ha#e been concerned" I myself ha#e no full answers for

these uestions about the tree of life" +ne day$ I would lie to find out"

There is another !roblem that &od could ha#e foreseen and may be why &od did notwant Adam and E#e to eat from the tree of life" -e new man had sinned and what man

was ca!able of" It may be that he wanted to ee! the wrong men from getting access to

the tree" +nce one had eaten from it$ they would li#e fore#er and could dominatee#eryone else" They might try to ee! e#eryone else from the tree by force" They could

then ensla#e e#eryone else and endlessly dominate and abuse generations of mortal

!eo!le"

When he !laced cherubim to guard the way to the tree of life$ &od may really ha#e been

creating a di#ersion" en would sense that there was something s!ecial about the region

where the cherubim were !laced" Being led by im!ure moti#es$ they would see the tree



of life there" But they would be self,decei#ed4 &od is not the one decei#ing them" This is

at the heart of false religion" What sane !erson would not want to li#e fore#er5 This is a

gi#en with man and &od is well aware of this" The !roblem is that many !eo!le wouldabuse their eternal life" &od foresaw what an elite class of men might do if they

!ossessed the tree of life" But he new that sin had a way of defeating itself and such foul

moti#es"

When Adam and E#e were cast out of Eden$ &od !laced the flaming sword to ee!

manind away from the tree of life$ or at least to curtail mo#ement to it" &od !lacedSatan$ the fifth and last cherub$ at ount Sinai in Arabia to hold the flaming sword" The

flaming sword is the deserts of the iddle East"

The -ebrew word used in the !assage about the flaming sword 6&en" ;0=7: is chereb"This word means !rimarily 2drought3 and 2desolation3" It has the meaning of sword as in

something that 2destroys3$ 2cuts3$ 2ills3$ Notice how similar this word is to the root

words lined to the cherubim5< And also interesting$ .horeb$ better nown as -oreb$

from the same word root$ also called ount Sinai$ ha!!ens to be the s!ot where osessaw the burning bush"

The deserts of Arabia$ Syria$ Ira$ etc" would ha#e acted as a barrier to !eo!le coming

from the east" any anthro!ologists are of the #iew that no one li#ed to the north and

west of eso!otamia in early times" The &enesis account e#en states that no one li#edwest of eso!otamia at all 6de!ending of course on #ersion, &enesis <<0=:" Peo!le only

li#ed east of eso!otamia because they were bloced by a growing$ deadly and

im!assable desert" This may e/!lain why Abraham on his %ourney to the !romised land

tra#eled indirectly$ first along the ri#ers of eso!otamia and northwest to where Syria isand then down into Palestine" The only other way was most liely by sea around the

coasts of Arabia and u! the ed Sea" So !eo!le may ha#e been getting to the west mostly

by sea4 tra#eling across the desert was !robably unusual because it was #ery dangerous$ if not im!ossible"

This characteristic of the iddle East has been noted before" This is its solid and stiflingas!ect as a blocade against mo#ement from east to west and #ice #ersa" It has been

mentioned by some that the desert region of the iddle East has hindered the mo#ements

of !eo!le from the east into western Asia and Euro!e" Some anthro!ologists 6many who

don)t necessarily belie#e in the Bible: ha#e e#en claimed that Euro!e was actually thelast region to be !o!ulated because migrations of human beings were stymied by deserts

in the iddle East for ages"

There are many e/!lanations for what causes climate change and #ariation" .ould it be

though that the flaming sword of &enesis =7 actually brought about the desert region of

the iddle East5 And were the cherubim !laced at the east of the garden !ut there to ee!that area from drying u!5 Notice that angels are released from the Eu!hrates in the

A!ocaly!se 6e#" @0<7,<8, this may be connected to e#" <J0<=:4 this results in great

de#astation and death"



?eserts are definitely thought of as (flaming)" -as something caused a climatic !attern in

that region which did not e/ist before5 I)#e said before that anthro!ologists ha#e claimed

the iddle East$ and for that matter the Sahara as well$ were not always bla*ingwastelands but were uite fertile" aybe the oil and natural gas beneath the regions of the

iddle East affect the climate" It could be that natural gas has been see!ing out of the

ground and altering the climate there" Wouldn)t a flaming sword need fuel to burn5 ?oesit burn on the oil and gas of the iddle East5 Is the oil and gas there now the beginnings

of the ae of Fire5

The iddle East contains the region nown as the (Fertile .rescent)" This is in the area

described in the beginning of &enesis" This belt of arable land roughly follows an arc

from the area of modern Ira to Israel and on into Egy!t and the Nile #alley" It might

a!!ear that this area follows a crude circle4 it borders a swee!ing arc of desert" Theflaming sword of &enesis was said to turn e#ery direction" That could #ery well im!ly

that some sort of arc !attern would be demarcated" The angel ichael is often called (the

archangel) because he is said to be one of the chief angels" But, !laying on words, is

ichael !erha!s the (arc) angel because he holds the flaming sword which swee!s aroundendlessly in the deserts of the iddle East5

So$ has the arid deadly desert of Arabia$ etc" been actually created by the flaming sword

!laced there by &od5 Is it some unseen force wielded by the angelic world$ creating

climatic and thereby historic e#ents on earth5 It could #ery well be" Indeed ci#ili*ationseems to ha#e mo#ed from east to west in ancient times" Was it following the swee! of

the sword5 We read of recurrent famines in the Bible4 they seem to ha!!en !eriodically in

#arious regions" I wonder if !erfect information and data might re#eal famines in a

circular swee! through time"

There is some linguistic e#idence of this too" The modern name of Ira describes a region

which is with all certainty at the center of this #ery !lace4 the name is #ery re#ealing if itis looed at closely" The name Ira has been shown to mean se#eral things$ (broad)$

)broad lands)$ )flat land)$ )shoreline) 6for the Tigris and Eu!hrates i#ers:$ to name a few"

It has been also lined to the ancient city of r$ Abraham)s original home and to ruand Erech$ ancient cities of eso!otamia near the Persian &ulf" The name ru might be

the same as Ira"

There is large consensus that )shoreline) is closest to the original meaning" I would saythis is !robably correct$ but I would loo more closely at this meaning" Shoreline of

what5 Perha!s a sandy beach" But a sandy beach with no water> I)d say the region was

nown as a )shoreline)$ but !erha!s not on water" Perha!s not on the Tigris or Eu!hratesat all4 it could easily ha#e meant a shoreline on a #ast desert> And it was %ust about an

im!assable barrier" The -ebrew word raa may bear this out" This root #erb means to

)hammer)$ )beat out)$ )s!it out)$ (broaden) or )e/!and) as in beating out a sheet of metal"elated words ha#e to do with (an e/!anse)$ (broad)$ (far)$ or )sheet)" -ebrew raiya

translates as )e/!anse)$ )#isible arch of the sy)$ and is always used for the firmament

6&en" <09,:" The ,ya at the end of the word connects it to &od" This root word can



clearly be seen in the name Ira$ at least su!erficially$ if not in deri#ation" As I)#e said$

it)s the consonants that are most often the clue, same two sounds$ r and 6or Gc:"

Ira might also ha#e the meaning of (green) as in (fertile($ (full of #egetation)" The

descri!tion is easily connected to the fertile area along the ma%or ri#ers of the region" This

is !robably connected to another -ebrew word$ yere$ meaning green or !ale green$ as in#egetation" This might also ha#e something to do with green being a common color

associated with Islamic countries" They might !ri*e green$ as it is often rare in that #ery

region" And the word yere is from the same root as raa ha#ing meanings of (to s!it) and(e/!anse)" Plants might be connected to s!itting as they a!!ear to be s!it out from the

earth" And an area of green #egetation could easily be considered as an e/!anse"

An e/!anse lie the sy or a desert are often seen as fi/ed or firm$ hence firmament" Thisis something that seems !ermanent$ immo#able$ steadfast$ etc" Are the words raiya and

others$ and !ossibly the name of Ira then actually e#en related to English roc5 Almost

e/actly the same two sounds" oc often means something immo#able$ steadfast and

long lasting" ?eserts are also incidentally usually #ery rocy>

The firmament in the sy is often com!ared to a great arch$ the (#ault of hea#en)"Interestingly$ English arch has loosely the same two sounds as the root of raiya" The

firmament could also be seen as something that contains$ thereby also a ty!e of barrier"

English ar has this meaning as in a (bo/) or (container) as in the boat of Noah and theAr of the .o#enant4 it also means (something secret)$ (hidden)" This is related to English

arcane"

elated to raa are riua$ (beaten out($ raa (to s!it) or (diffuse) as in a sandy beach$the name of aath in Palestine" Possibly related is the -ebrew word ruwach for s!irit$

sy$ wind$ etc" So is the Fertile .rescent$ a )green e/!anse) 6arch: on the edges of a great

barrier of desert which has been created by an unseen flaming sword5 It could well be"

Another word with the same consonant sounds is atin +rcus" This is the atin

eui#alent of &ree -ades and English -ell" This is the region which contains the dead"The Bible seems to say that the region of Ira will one day be the location of something

lie -ades and -ell 6e#" <0=:" This is !robably the ae of Fire 6e#" <@0=C4 =C0<7,<8:"

So it may be that after Adam and E#e sinned$ a large desert began to form in the iddleEast" Their sin had something to do then with the a!!earance of this desert" It has indeed

been said many times that the world)s climate was !erfect until the +riginal Sin4 there

were no deserts and !erha!s no !olar ice ca!s either"

.ain was o#ertaen by the tainted blood of his !arents" .ain a!!ears to ha#e been a hard

worer at first$ as he had much to offer &od" But he was under the ser!ent)s curse$ notAdam)s" .ain was !robably dri#en by a twisted desire to get an ad#antage o#er e#eryone

else$ e#en &od" This was the reason for being %ealous of his brother Abel"



.ain)s !roblem is common with !eo!le in general" -e had a twisted desire to be better

than e#eryone else and &od and to gain the ad#antage at all costs" -e thought he could

wor his way into &od)s fa#or" -e made the mistae of offering &od his labor" -is laborwas for himself$ not &od$ as had been laid out in Adam)s curse" King Solomon seemed to

con#ey this in his wisdom 6Eccl" 80<@:" .ain was attem!ting to wor his way into hea#en

and beyond" By offering the fruit of his labor only$ he was really saying$ 2oo at whatI)#e done for you &od"3 -e was really worshi!!ing his own efforts and idoli*ing his own

wor$ something warned against in the Bible 6Is" =0$ etc":" .ain was worshi!!ing

himself> .ain illed his brother Abel" -e was cursed by his deed to be unable to farm andthus to be a nomad" .ain was the first man of Adam)s !ure bloodline to marry outside of

Adam)s bloodline" -e married a woman of the remnant !eo!le from before the &arden of

Eden$ a 2daughter of men3$ with tainted blood"

Adam and E#e)s !ure bloodline could be maintained if their children mated with siblings"

The beautiful 2daughters of men3 had fish traits from eating fish and ser!ents" This

allowed them to maintain beautiful human form and conceal fish traits"

&oing from this$ we can see that .ain must ha#e had to brea this !rohibition on meat"

-e must ha#e had to eat meat since &od)s curse didn)t allow him to farm$ 6&en" 70<=,<J:"If he was a wanderer$ meat would certainly be a !art of his diet" -e could ha#e sca#enged

fruit and #egetables also$ but it seems reasonable that .ain would also ha#e eaten meat"

-e would !robably ha#e had no !roblem doing it$ as he had already sinned by illing hisown brother" Indeed$ &od)s statement 6&enesis @0;,J: hints that men had been eating

meat against his will and that murder was ram!ant for many moti#es$ including !ossibly

cannibalism" Notice that .ain)s name itself may in the #ery word (cannibal)" It a!!ears

&od was offering men some solutions to !roblems that had arisen and changing someearlier commands 6about not eating meat as im!lied in &enesis <0=@:"

-e most liely would ha#e found it necessary at times to eat dead animals and otherunclean food such as insects" -e !robably also became a cannibal4 e#en his own name

seems to be within the word cannibal itself$ and this is most liely not a coincidence"

-is body and mind e#en might ha#e become affected" It may be that &od allowed him to

ha#e s!ecial su!er human abilities such as the ability to see and hear better than normal

humans" -e might ha#e e#en had other abilities to be able to a#oid other humans anddisa!!ear entirely" ather than gi#ing him these abilities directly$ &od !robably %ust

allowed them to come from the demonic world" They would ha#e seemed lie a blessing

but were surely ultimately a curse" .ain)s self !ity and lac of remorse for his crimesurely o!ened him u! to unclean s!irits and the control of Satan"

There are some other ideas that ha#e been s!read among the .hristian church$ which aremost !robably wrong" These are the ideas that &od)s curses on Adam and E#e were o#er

the entire human race" It seems certain that only some of &od)s curses would a!!ly to all

of manind$ not all the curses" I ha#e heard many women com!lain about &od)s curse on

E#e about his statement 6somewhat distorted:$ (I will greatly multi!ly your !ain in



childbirth$ in !ain you shall bring forth children") But these women ha#e indicated that

they belie#e this curse a!!lies to all women" ?oes it5 aybe not" &od was taling

directly to E#e" If he had meant all of her offs!ring$ wouldn)t that ha#e been madeclearer5 &od distinguished E#e from (her seed) when he cursed the ser!ent a few #erses

earlier than E#e)s curse" -e didn)t distinguish E#e from anyone or anything else in her

curse" So there may be another inter!retation of this curse" +ne which has been !ro!osedis that &od was referring to emotional !ain$ not !hysical !ain" The King Hames #ersion of

the Bible uses the word (sorrow)$ indicating emotional rather than !hysical !ain" Perha!s

&od new E#e would bear the guilt$ shame and sorrow for allowing sin and death into theworld and u!on all of her offs!ring" Some ha#e inter!reted E#e)s multi!lied !ain in

childbirth to mean she would ha#e twins" This seems to %ustify the belief that .ain and

Abel were twins"

The curse on Adam a!!ears only to a!!ly to him alone$ and not necessarily on all of his

offs!ring$ as has been widely belie#ed" As in E#e)s curse$ &od does not refer to anyone or

anything but Adam himself$ unless Adam is taen as referring to all of manind in

general$ which it may ha#e" If this curse a!!lied to all manind$ then how could othersha#e been so !ros!erous5 .ain and Abel both a!!ear to ha#e been uite successful

farmers or herders" .ain was a!!arently a farmer until cursed for his murder of Abel" SoAdam)s curse seems not necessarily to ha#e a!!lied to them$ at least com!letely" Indeed$

amech)s blessing of his son Noah indicated that &od)s curse on Adam might not a!!ly

to Noah 6&enesis 80=@:"

The curse of death has been claimed to a!!ly to all" E#en this has been debated" Enoch

and Eli%ah both ne#er died" It would seem that the curse of death would ha#e to a!!ly to

all manind$ since they all s!rang from Adam and E#e$ who was dead after he sinned"The fact that Enoch and Eli%ah ne#er died then$ is a bit !u**ling" Enoch and Eli%ah then

may not ha#e died$ but this would not necessarily %ustify them before &od and allow

them into hea#en" Neither could they be a !ro!itiation for the sins of someone besidesthemsel#es" In other words$ only .hrist could atone for sin and %ustify manind$ including

Enoch and Eli%ah" Enoch and Eli%ah might !ossibly ha#e not committed any sins

themsel#es$ but they were still born in sin$ being descended from Adam" They didn)t die !hysically" But they had been born s!iritually dead or se!arated from &od" This hel!s

e/!lain that there may ha#e been !hysical death e#en before Adam4 Adam only brought

s!iritual death into the world"

The first !art of the curse on the ser!ent a!!ears to be on the ser!ent alone" The second

!art is on the ser!ent)s seed and on the seed of the woman" The seed of the woman is also

blessed as a !art of the curse on the seed of the ser!ent"

.ain)s line a!!ears to ha#e been more ad#anced than Seth)s line" .ain)s descendants

a!!ear to ha#e been more dri#en" The Bible re#eals that .ain)s descendants to beassociated with the ad#ancement of sills and arts 6&n" 70<9,==:" Nothing lie this is

mentioned about the descendants of Seth" .ain and his descendants wored with

building$ herding$ metal and arts" They would naturally ha#e been the first to !ractice all

sorts of science$ including blac magic" Silled wor lie this would seem to be a natural



de#elo!ment$ since .ain was cursed from farming and destined to be a wanderer" The

logical outcome is that .ain had to li#e off li#estoc and !roduce$ and #ery liely not by

the indness of the owner)s hearts$ but by force" So it is !retty ob#ious$ if one taes aclose loo$ that .ain and his descendants became some ind of raider$ and .ain was

further !rotected by the mar that &od !laced u!on him in &enesis 70<8"

There has been a lot of s!eculation of %ust what the mar of .ain was" Students of the

Bible ha#e no doubt wondered about it as soon as the Bible was written down" Some

suggestions are that the mar was dar sin$ or a si/,!ointed star$ Tau cross$ etc" It wasnot actually a mar$ but a !romise or oath" The -ebrew word used for 2mar3 in the #erse

is owth" It is !robably cognate with English oath"< At first glance one might easily thin

that it was a #isible mar set to ee! other men at bay" But u!on closer ins!ection$ one

might find that the mar may ha#e been only something &od !laced for &od)s reference$not man(s"

en of Adam)s !ure bloodline followed .ain and too wi#es of outsiders$ mi/ing the

!ure Adamic race with the corru!ted !o!ulations" any sought re#enge for the death ofAbel and sought .ain" They would encounter the sur#i#ing corru!ted race of humans"

They would marry women that were beautiful on the outside$ but carried fish genes"any women of Adam)s !ure bloodline would marry into the sur#i#ing corru!ted race"

They would be gi#en in marriage to !owerful remnant men who had beast characteristics

from eating animals" These 2beast men3 lost the ability to conceal animal traits"

The Bible shows us two lines of men 6&en" 70<9,== and 80<,;=:$ one coming from Seth

6Sethites: and one coming from .ain 6.ainitesGKenites:" The fact that they were !ulling

away from &od may ha#e made the .ainites more moti#ated in worldly matters" It seemsalso$ that they had an ad#antage of eating meat, the line of Seth is assumed to be

#egetarians$ as they would ha#e held to the original commandment of &od not to eat

meat" eat would gi#e the ad#antage of more energy and !rotein$ and lead to greaterstrength$ si*e$ etc" at least in the short run" All of the early technological$ architectural$

artistic$ ad#ancements$ etc" are mentioned in association with .ain)s line$ not Seth" This

is not to say that Seth)s line didn)t wor or in#ent$ but the Bible seems to indicate thatSeth)s line lagged behind when it came to in#enting$ etc"

The Bible only clearly names %ust four !eo!le who e#en new about the curse and the

!romise that &od !laced on .ain 6&n" 70<8$ =;,=7:" We are not told that anyone else e#ennew anything about it" So the mar doesn)t seem to be a warning4 it a!!ears to be %ust a

de#ice to bring the curse into effect$ should .ain be illed" It also seems difficult to

understand who would be able to now how to recogni*e .ain" +nly Adam and E#enew what .ain e#en looed lie firsthand" If we assume .ain left his !arents$ then his

siblings would not now him or what he looed lie$ unless there are other siblings close

in age to .ain not mentioned in the Bible" We don)t now either if Adam or E#e told their children about the murder of Abel" They may ha#e$ and the siblings of .ain may ha#e

wanted re#enge" E#en Adam and E#e may ha#e wanted re#enge"



The fact that &od mentioned a curse on anyone that would ill .ain indicates that &od

was not guaranteeing to .ain that he would not be illed" The mar was only a guarantee

that the iller of .ain would be !unished" So one can only conclude that the mar was notmeant to deter re#enge" It seems only to ha#e been a reminder of who .ain was and what

he had done and the curse on retribution" &od was only stating that he himself would not

ill .ain and that he was not !ersonally seeing re#enge" But he was telling .ain also notto e/!ect men to be so honorable"

It seems #ery liely that .ain)s descendants used #ery disagreeable and com!licatedrituals in#ol#ing animal and human sacrifice to gain ad#anced nowledge" This was

something Seth)s descendants sim!ly wouldn)t do" .ain)s line most assuredly a!!ealed to

e#il s!irits to grant them all sorts of secrets that might ha#e taen ages to de#elo!

otherwise" ?emons would ha#e been surely eager to oblige any who ga#e the !ro!erwiced ser#itude" Indeed$ the -ebrew word sheth$ from which the word satan is !ossibly

deri#ed$ means (chaos($ (tumult($ (desolation($ (waste(" It also has the meaning of

(rushing) as in hastiness$ reclessness" And hastiness !ro#erbially leads to chaos$

destruction and desolation" &od surely acted to hinder man from learning too much toofast for his own good$ and demons certainly had no ualms about acuiring nowledge

before it could be used safely"

The Boo of &enesis tells us that .ain)s descendants could wor with metal" This

undoubtedly in#ol#ed the nowledge of fire" It may be that they got this through de#ilworshi!" They may #ery well ha#e gotten fire from meteorites$ as well as iron" They

might ha#e belie#ed$ rightly$ that fire and iron were gifts of the gods and of the hea#ens"

This is e#en re#ealed in words for stars and for iron" Iron has been connected to &ree

heiron$ (holy($ (consecrated(" Sideros is (iron) in &ree and (star) in atin$ interesting"Sider also ha!!ens to mean (magic) in Norse languages"

It becomes clear too$ that .ain)s !rogeny were raiders as well$ but de#elo!ed sills toearn more honest$ howe#er dubious$ li#ings" .ain)s descendant amech had illed some

!eo!le 6&en" 70=;,=7:" In the !assage$ he shows faith that #engeance will not fall on him"

-e uttered a curse that &od would bring into effect"

It seems clear that .ain)s line was #ery wiced" We assume .ain was wiced by his

murder of his brother Abel$ and that he ne#er re!ented" I thin the Bible would ha#e

mentioned if .ain had re!ented" The Bible doesn)t mention if amech re!ented either"

It a!!ears that there was something !rotecting or a#enging amech more than %ust a

sword" -is words a!!ear to be !ro!hetic" -e a!!ears to ha#e had the gift of s!eaingsomething that would come to !ass lie other Bible !ro!hets" By e/amining the curses of

.ain and amech closely$ one can faintly detect a sinister system of murder and

retribution and curses which led to sla#ery and bondage" amech had married beautifulwomen of the fish bloodlinie" They acuired the nowledge of &od)s curse through

amech" They !lotted a diabolical scheme for ultimately world domination" Perha!s they

dislied or hated amech and wanted to eliminate him" They could ha#e re#ealed that

amech had illed someone" If someone illed amech$ his wi#es would be free$ but they



also new that whoe#er illed amech 6and !robably e#eryone descended from them:

would be under a curse" It may be also that .ain was still ali#e u! to this !oint$ and they

did the same with him"

E#en worse$ the wi#es of amech may ha#e reali*ed that they could become !art of a

ruling elite o#er a cursed !o!ulace" They might also continue their dominationindefinitely by ee!ing a horrible cycle of murder and retribution going$ which would

force &od to bring the curses into effect" An elite would ha#e de#elo!ed nowing about

the curses and their !ower to ensla#e whole !o!ulations"

With these curses !ronounced and alluded to by him$ can be seen the beginnings of a

cycle that could affect all of manind" The Bible hints at this cycle$ which began the

moment Adam ate the forbidden fruit" This is a cycle of curses lasting forty nine yearsand four hundred and ninety years each" These are ty!es of !robationary !eriods" .ain

may ha#e been illed in retribution for murdering Abel" There followed a curse of forty,

nine years where )se#enfold) in the curse refers to se#en !eriods of se#en years each" This

seems to be the beginning of the cycles of %ubilee years$ e#ery fiftieth year 6e#" =80,<C:" anind would sin against &od in some way and bring this long !eriod of

!unishment" amech was referring to a !eriod made u! of se#enty !eriods of se#en yearseach$ four hundred ninety years" This cycle is also referred to by ?aniel and hinted at by

.hrist himself 6&n" 70<84 =;,=74 ?n" @0=8,=J4 t" <0=<,==:"

There are faint hints of these cycles and they seem to come at ey e#ents in the Bible"

.ounting the number of years that !assed by the information gi#en for the generations

leading u! to Abraham$ there were ey e#ents that ha!!ened at the time of Adam$ Enoch$

Noah$ Shem$ Peleg and Hose!h" There a!!ears to be some great transgression and then acorres!onding !unishment" There is also great heroism and redem!tion"

any of the !ure beasts formed in Eden would mate with im!ure remnant beasts" Theoffs!ring would be mostly sterile with unusual si*e and features" These would be the

corru!t beasts whose fossil remains are found today" A !roblem with raising cattle that

has been obser#ed is the massi#e amount of farmland needed to su!!ort cattle" egionsha#e been nown to be o#er,farmed and thereby de!leted and turned into desert" It is not

too hard to imagine that this is e/actly what the Ne!hilim did"

any e/!erts belie#e that much of the iddle East was once co#ered by a #erdant forest"A desert may ha#e first begun with the flaming sword of &enesis 6&enesis ;0=7:"

?e!leting trees would broaden the desert and also send massi#e amounts of moisture

bac into the atmos!here and the ground" The moisture may ha#e mi/ed with oil andnatural gas as well as tra!!ed water in the ground and this could ha#e contributed to the

great flood" The Bible hints at this 6&en" <<0;:" +ne uicly !asses o#er the line (bric

for stoneMand tar for mortar)" But in this statement is a hint at a !attern in the regions ofthe ancient iddle East" To mae bric and tar reuires a lot of trees" Why5 Brics are

made in ilns$ which must burn a lot of wood or coal" I don)t thin they had coal$ but I

would ha#e to research this more to be sure" Tar also comes from trees" The !eo!le of the



ancient iddle East were using u! massi#e amounts of trees for their building" sing

stone and mortar was !robably too difficult and e/!ensi#e"

Now$ many scientists and scholars belie#e that the iddle East was once com!letely

co#ered in forest" The Bible refers to the wiced men who li#ed before the flood that

illed all but eight !eo!le" The wiced men$ many of whom were the Ne!hilim or giants$most liely had much of the forest cut down$ lea#ing the desert we see in the iddle East

today" Trees contain a lot of water" When they were cut down$ a lot of water was freed to

e#a!orate and to sin into the water underground and into any oceans" This may ha#ecreated a great imbalance between the hea#y water and the regular water" Also$ in Noah)s

time$ there may ha#e been much more water in the earth)s crust than in the oceans 6many

belie#e there was only one land mass then:" The water that had been contained in trees

e#entually could ha#e ended u! in underground ca#erns" Pressure built u!" Water mayha#e also come into contact with uranium$ creating steam$ as in nuclear reactors today"

The steam would generate massi#e amounts of force$ e#entually bursting through the

earth)s crust and e#en s!litting u! the one land mass into se#eral continents and at a high

rate of s!eed" The Bible seems to describe this e/actly 6&en" 90<<:"

E#entually only Noah and his sons had the !ure bloodline of Adam" &od would destroye#ery creature on the earth" Noah would bring some on the ar with him" The clean

animals Noah too were animals that had maintained a !ure bloodline going bac to

formation in the &arden of Eden" The 2unclean animals3 were actually beast men allowedto sur#i#e on the ar"

Note that the !assage seems to gi#e Noah)s age in years$ months and days" This is

!robably a mistranslation" The !assage is !robably gi#ing Noah)s age in years but issaying that the flood ha!!ened in the second month on the <9th day of the month$ which

is the end of +ctober on the old calendar 6before it was changed by oses after the

E/odus, see ?euteronomy <J:"

Those humans that had their genetic structure mi/ed with sea creatures lie fish and

ser!ents were able to esca!e &od)s wrath in the cataclysmic flood" They were able totransform into fish and sur#i#e" The beast men that sur#i#ed on Noah)s ar would scatter

as soon as they got to dry land" The great flood did not wi!e out all e#il on earth" And lie

ba!tism$ it actually seems to be an incom!lete or im!otent element for the destruction of

e#il and the transformation of man"

The ations

Noah)s ar landed on ount Ararat north of eso!otamia" Noah$ his sons and their

wi#es were the only human beings left that were untainted by animal blood 6&en" J0,@:"any other men had come on the ar$ but they had corru!ted blood mi/ed with either

animals or forbidden !lants" After the cataclysmic flood$ men only li#ed east of the

Eu!hrates i#er for some time No one would li#e for some time in what are Africa$Euro!e and the Americas at first"



Ha!heth is the oldest son of Noah 6&en" <C0=<:" -am is Noah)s youngest son 6&en" @0=7:"

&od blessed Noah and his family" As !art of this blessing he u!holds their dominion o#erall animals$ including o#er 2unclean3 beast men" -e also lifts all bans on food going bac

to before the &arden of Eden$ e/ce!t eating blood" &od also gi#es them the authority to

ill any murderer$ e#en those of the !ure bloodline of Adam lie Noah and his sons" Thisdidn)t allow them to ha#e dominion o#er !ure men 6&n" @0<,J:"

But then -am 2saw his father)s naedness3 when Noah was drun 6&en" @0=C,=:" Noahcouldn)t curse -am directly because -am had already recei#ed &od)s blessing" So Noah

cursed -am)s son .anaan and his descendants" Noah then ga#e his other sons Shem and

Ha!heth a double blessing" Part of the blessing on Shem was that he would be the direct

ancestor of .hrist" .anaan)s descendants would ser#e the descendants of both Shem andHa!heth"

Nimrod began to desire to dominate men$ e#en those of his own !ure Adamic bloodline"

The 2unclean3 beast men would be those that he would hunt first" -e e!t them froms!reading out eastward and north and south" -e brought them into the !lain of Shinar in

eso!otamia" Nimrod married a beautiful woman of the fish bloodline" Their childrenwould be first giants after the flood" These were the mighty men called ne!hilim and

gibbor in -ebrew" They built Babel and !lanned construction of a mountainous tower"

&od had commanded men to multi!ly and fill the earth 6&en" <0=4 @0<:" But they weren)t

heeding &od)s command4 they were staying in one !lace" Satan led men to eso!otamia

to contend with the cherubim stationed there" Babel in many ways was an a!!ro!riate

name for the city and area" The cherubim there were guarding a gate of sorts" And theywere guarding it for &od"

But men lingered" First of all$ Babel was %ust the gate of &od" ?o we want to remain %ustat the gate of &od5 I don)t thin so" I thin we would want to mo#e through the gate and

onto the right !ath and get to the tree of life" So men were lingering at the gate4 they

weren)t going beyond it>

Babel means (gate of god)$ bab is (gate) and el is (god)" ore accurately$ Babel means

(fruit of god)" The final n in Babylon may ha#e been added to indicate that there was a

well or s!ring at the !lace or that the !lace was considered an eye 6of the gods5:" The rootab$ eb$ a!$ etc" meant (fruit)$ (freshness) or (fruitful) in early Semitic languages" The root

came to be a!!lied in words for both father and son$ as the son is the fruit of the father

and con#ersely the father (bears fruit)" The meaning e/!anded to mean (wor) as in (thefruit of labor)" The root might ha#e either consonant b or ! since they are often

interchangeable with one another linguistically"

The name of Adam)s son Abel may #ery well mean (son of god) or (fruit of god) as in a

gift from god$ although Abel was the fruit of Adam and &od only indirectly" An Assyrian

word for son was a!lu" Both Abel and a!lu are stiingly similar to English a!!le a!!le"

The name of the &ree god A!ollo !robably is deri#ed from the same root" It)s !robable



that a generic root word for fruit came to mean only one s!ecific fruit$ the a!!le in the

English language" Abel also meant (meadow)$ (field) or (watercourse) in many ancient

Semitic languages" This could easily be lined to fruit as orchards and grain are foundoften in meadows or fields"

The English word e#il may be deri#ed from the same root as a!lu also" The -ebrew worda#al or a##al seems connected" This word means (e#il)$ (crooed) or (!er#erse)" The

letters # and b are often interchangeable in linguistic terms$ so one can easily see a

connection between a#al and abel$ and e#en a!lu" The word abel or a!lu for (fruit) mightha#e come to sometimes mean e#il$ because of the association of fruit with original sin" A

similar connection is seen in atin malus$ a word for (e#il) or (bad) and also for a!!le"

+ne can clearly see this connection in the name of the mythical island of A#alon inArthurian legend" The name of A#alon has been traced to a!!les and the name has been

shown to mean (island of a!!les) or (garden of a!!les)" This legendary !lace$ the (island

of the blessed)$ a sort of Elysian Fields$ was belie#ed to be a !lace of bliss and !eace and

the destiny of good !eo!le and heroes" But according to the sense of the word$ the namecould easily be associated with e#il" And if the n at the end of A#alon is taen to mean

(s!ring) or (fountain)$ then the name of A#alon taes on an e#en more sinister meaning of (s!ring of e#il) or (wells!ring of e#il)" Is it the origin of e#il5

The word !u!il in English may be related to a!!le and Semitic Abel" It also may berelated to English !eo!le$ !o!ulace$ !ublic$ etc" This may be with the meaning of !eo!le

as fruit" &od said to be (fruitful and multi!ly)$ to !o!ulate the earth in other words" There

is the e/!ression (the a!!le of my eye) or (the a!!le of the eye)$ which is taen to mean

offs!ring or !rogeny$ as in (once you were %ust a gleam in your father)s eye)" The Psalmsincludes this e/!ression 6Ps" <90:"

The !u!il is !art of the eye" It seems to ha#e been thought of as a child of the eye" Thismay also ha#e been in the sense that the moon was a child of the sun$ a common

conce!tion in the ancient world" The moon may ha#e been thought of as the !u!il of

&od)s eye 6the sun5:"

A dee!er meaning of Babel may #ery well be taen to be (eye) or (!u!il) of &od as in an

o!ening to &od lie a !u!il is an o!ening to the mind and body$ through the eye" The

meaning may ha#e been reinforced by adding an n to the end of Babel" The n$ for ayin$(eye)$ or (fountain)" So Babylon means (the o!ening of &od)s eye) in one sense or

!ossibly (the s!ring of Babel) as s!rings were concei#ed of as (eyes)" This may also

indicate that there was a good s!ring at the location at one time" Perha!s this is referringto the ri#ers" Babel may then ha#e been belie#ed to be the (a!!le of god)s eye) and was

!robably a center of moon worshi!$ among other things" If you stri! off the #owels of

both a!!le and !u!il and lea#e %ust consonants$ they ha#e the same letters" And if youre!lace the !)s with b)s$ you ha#e something close to bbl or Babel" If Babel was the (eye

of god) it !robably was not meant as &od)s eye but an eye that can see both gods and men

and also into hea#en" +f course this was all in the mind of men"



There is no word close to bab in -ebrew for 'gate' or 'eye'" The word a!!ears to be

.haldean or Aadian" But interestingly -ebrew root words with bb mean only fruit6ababu:$ father 6abba: or destruction 6abatu$ lined to Abaddon 6e#" @0<<:" -ere we see

one connection with a!!le$ as in fruit" -ow might this be connected to destruction5 Well$

Adam and E#e sinned by eating fruit and brought destruction on the world" Still$ howmight this be connected to eye5 Well$ Adam and E#e saw that the forbidden fruit was

both !leasing to the eye and that if they ate from it their eyes would be o!ened" E#en

when you say a!!le and Babel$ they sound somewhat alie" This is not to say that thefruit that Adam and E#e ate when they transgressed was actually an a!!le" any scholars

hold that the Bible indicates that the fig was the cul!rit"

So$ was Babel the a!!le of &od)s eye5 To Nimrod and the !eo!le under his domination ita!!ears so" The meaning is ob#iously twisted and !er#erse from a .hristian stand!oint"

But according to Nimrod and his em!ire$ where would this (eye) wor best5 Probably in

the s!ot where the cherubim were !resent and at the to! of a tower$ close to hea#en" It)s

interesting that the (all,seeing eye) on the "S" dollar bill is located at the to! of the !yramid" .ould this be related5 I thin it is" Some of Nimrod)s !rogeny most liely ended

u! in Egy!t where they continued on with their wor in later ages"

Babel also !robably came to mean (mountain) or (hill) because the tower of Babel was

lie a hill" This name might ha#e been transcribed erroneously into &ree and Arabic" Bwas often written lie English g in the Phoenician al!habet" So the word hill in &ree and

Arabic is often gebal or %ebel" The &ebal mentioned by E*eiel 6E*" =90@: is widely

considered to ha#e been the Phoenician city of Byblos" Fate allowed this city)s name to

be transcribed bac into something lie the name of Babylon" I thin this is no accident$ but &od showing a s!iritual connection and !ur!ose between the two cities" Words for

'boo' and 'bible' come from the name of the city of Byblos" Byblos was a sort of

franchise of Babylon$ as were many other cities$ lie later ome" Isaiah wrote somethingto this effect when he denounced Babylon 6Is" <70=<:" Writing with !honetic scri!ts is

belie#ed to ha#e originated in that city" And the word !honetic comes from Phoenicia$

which was .anaanite in origin$ where Byblos was"

When construction commenced on the Tower of Babel$ &od$ in all three !ersons came

down to confuse the language of manind" It wasn)t the cherubim or other angels$ or

other men who confused manind$ it was &od" &od had to scatter men fromeso!otamia because they were under the influence of Satan" The !ure Adamic families

were mi/ing more and more with 2unclean3 races"

-ow &od did this is not made clear" There may also be some misconce!tions about

language in this e#ent also" It has been assumed by many scholars that the language of

the world at this early time was sim!le$ monosyllabic and unwritten" It may be that theconfusion the Bible is referring to is the confusion that arises in getting agreement on

ad#ancing the language to more so!histicated le#els" To do this$ new words and word

tenses$ new meanings$ writing$ etc" would be necessary as men attem!ted to coo!erate$

disco#ered new things and had to conce!tuali*e new and difficult !rocesses" There would



be disagreements on meanings of words$ !ronunciation$ modifications$ on !ro!er names

for gods$ etc" The men !robably saw the need to record information and they may ha#e

disagreed on how to write down words" There may ha#e been disagreement on whether towrite down words by sound or by !ictures" There were also surely elements of !ride and

ego$ and friction along family lines" The men at Babel surely new there was a su!reme

god but disagreed on what to call him" They had been calling on the name of the orde#en before the flood 6&enesis 70=J:" They may ha#e been looing for a single name$ not

reali*ing that there were three !ersons of &od" This may be where the three !ersons of the

Trinity acted to confuse men" They may ha#e begun to re#eal themsel#es and men didn)tunderstand it and e#en if they did$ they couldn)t concei#e of how to ran them" They

were looing for a !ower word or mantra with which they could control &od" Their

!ur!ose was defeated" It !robably wasn)t #ery difficult at all for &od to scatter manind

then" In fact$ one wonders why &od had to do anything at all"

The Bible may seem to suggest that men were looing for a name that they themsel#es

would be called 6&enesis <<07:" But it may mean they were indeed looing for the name

to call &od$ or both" Why did they thin they needed %ust a name to ee! from beingscattered$ as the story relates5 What good would %ust a name do anyway5 A!!arently$

!erha!s there was some real !ower in disco#ering &od)s name" ore liely men %ustimagined this" These men did seem to foresee %ust what &od was going to do" They

!robably remembered what &od had commanded twice earlier" Notice also that manind

scattered in the middle of the construction of the city$ not after it was com!leted"

Whate#er$ &od saw fit to scatter manind as he had commanded" Why these men thought

they could go against &od is a mystery" It is a mystery to me why &od confused the

language of manind" &od clearly stated he would do this" What did language ha#e to dowith it5 A!!arently there was indeed great !ower in s!eech" Perha!s &od was s!aring

manind destruction" -e may ha#e been ee!ing manind from blas!heming him"

&od was doing a good thing" What else would he do5 -e caused men to get away from

the gate" Dou can see what might ha#e ha!!ened, and what e#entually did ha!!en later, if

men had remained at Babel" There would be a circus atmos!here$ a carni#al as!ect thatwould cloud men)s minds and ee! them from getting !ast the gate" en were most

liely attem!ting to coa/ the cherubim into di#ulging their secrets" en would ha#e used

their talents and sills in all fields to tem!t the cherubim and foster their fa#or with the

ho!e of getting forbidden information" Babylon would be a #ery attracti#e and !leasing !lace" It would end u! a !lace of false religion and e#ery sort of erroneous !hiloso!hy

and doctrine getting !eo!le to see %ust about anything$ e/ce!t the right way"

Babylon gets its name from Babel and the word also came to mean (babble) in -ebrew

because of the e#ent regarding language at the building of the city and the tower of

Babel" The English word baby !robably is related because a baby)s s!eech is babble"Baby also may come from ababu$ as a baby is fruit of its !arents"

Dou can see the !roblem of names and words when it comes to naming oneself or a

di#inity with a loo at %ust a few of the names of gods in ancient languages" It is



im!ortant also for inter!reting the Bible" I will also show later how it hel!s with Bible

!ro!hecy"

In contrast to Babel$ Bethel means (house of &od) or (tem!le of &od)" This is surely

where &od intended all men to be" This is near Herusalem" Is this !erha!s also because the

tree of life was near where Herusalem now is5 It could #ery well be" Surely &od wantedmen to sto! lingering at the gate and get to the house" -e %ust wanted this for the right

reasons" en of false moti#es might ha#e wanted to get to the tree of life$ but they had to

come to &od)s house to get to it" They most !robably wanted nothing of &od)s house"

Noah)s three sons fought against Nimrod" The struggle lasted hundreds of years" By

going to war they would bring u!on themsel#es the ancient curse of amech" This would

ensla#e them and their descendants for four hundred ninety years" After the wars endedmen began to s!read out from southern eso!otamia"

Shem)s sons and their descendants remained in eso!otamia for thousands of years"

Shems sons are Elam$ Aram$ Asshur$ Ar!ha/ad and ud" ost of them would marry intothe bloodlines of the 2unclean3 beast men and corru!ted fish bloodlines" Elam)s land

6later incor!orated into Persia: was %ust east of the Eu!hrates in what is not western andsouthern Iran" !ri#er in what is now northern Ira$ the em!ire of Assyria too its name

from Asshur" The Aramaean ingdom in what is now Syria deri#ed its name from Aram

and was further u!ri#er and west in what is now Syria" And ud is belie#ed to ha#e beueathed his name to the ydians furthest west in Asia inor$ beyond the source of the

Eu!hrates" Ar!ha/ad didn)t recei#e territory but only he remained uncorru!ted by

2unclean3 races"

Ha!heth)s descendants mo#ed north and west into Euro!e and Asia inor" ost of them

would also marry into corru!ted bloodlines" +nly the descendants of Ashena* and

adai e!t themsel#es !ure from corru!ted bloodlines" A close loo at the names ofHa!heth)s descendants re#eals more interesting things and hel!s gi#e a better

inter!retation of later boos of the Bible" The name Ha!heth has been associated with the

name Ia!etos in some ancient &ree writings" Ia!etos was sometimes held to be a godand may be lined with the name Hu!iter of oman mythology" The name &omer has

been associated with a shadowy barbaric !eo!le nown as the .immerians" They might

be the same !eo!le nown as &imerai to the Assyrians" They were said to dwell far from

the ci#ili*ed nations lie &reece and Persia" The .immerians were often associated withTarturus and the misty unnown edges of the world"

inguistically$ g often shifts into c !honetically$ and #ice #ersa" A good e/am!le of this iswith the word for English bell" The old &ermanic word for bell is gloc" English cloc is

deri#ed from this word" A new meaning was added as in something that ee!s time"

.loc and gloc are related words surely because most clocs used to ha#e bells" So itcan easily be shown how the name &omer could ha#e changed to &imer and then to

.immer" The .immerians are mentioned often in writings of ancient Assyria$ Babylon$

&reece and ome" They ha#e been associated with areas in Asia inor and around the

Blac Sea" Ancient writers made guesses about .immerian settlement$ !lacing them



6factually and not so factually: in locations as far as ?enmar" ore recent writers ha#e

tied the .immerians e#en to Wales" The name of the .immerians has been lined to

.imbricia$ the ancient name for ?enmar and the .rimea in raine" Wales has been#ery arguably lined to &omer through the similarity with the Welsh name .ymry for

Wales" E#en the word (criminal) has been lined to the .immerians" .onan the Barbarian

of the mo#ies and no#els is a .immerian$

What !eo!le or country to be associated with agog has been debated and is mysterious"

I offer my own suggestion" ost Bible scholars agree that the original land of agog wassomewhere in Anatolia 6modern Turey: or the .aucasus region between the Blac and

.as!ian seas" any of the descendants of Ha!heth a!!ear to ha#e settled in this region"

This is !robably (the land of agog)"

The name agog may mean (great giant) from a root ma 6great: and gog 6giant:" The root

word ma is !robably connected to &ree mega for (great)" This root is cognate with many

English words lie magnify$ ma/imum$ ma%or$ etc" E#en the Sansrit word maha is

cognate" It can be seen in the -indi word mahara%a meaning (great) 6maha: and (ing)6ra%a:" The !refi/ mega, also means (million)$ !erha!s because a million is a large or

(great) number" There may also be some connection to a Babylonian root mag meaning(wise)" The lin may be in that a wise man was considered (great)" It)s belie#ed that

words lie magi$ (wise men) and e#en English magician come from this root"

An archaic name for a small ancient ingdom of the .aucasus region was Albania

6(white)$ because of snowca!!ed mountains:" This land is now in Armenia and

A*erbai%an" The modern name A*erbai%an has been shown to mean something lie (!lace

of the treasury)" The word A*er$ with one meaning of (treasury)$ has been lined to biblical Asshur and Assyria"

Treasury of what5 Fire$ and !robably minerals and metals and other goods from themountainous region" It)s belie#ed natural gas esca!ed from the roc there and caught fire"

Indeed$ #aluable crude oil is found there now" any of the surrounding em!ires !robably

traded hea#ily with the .aucasus region" This region also controlled a gateway for goods$es!ecially horses$ from central Asia"

The ingdom of Albania had an ancient ca!ital of abala 6&abalaGKa!alaG.habala:$

near the modern !ort of Bau on the .as!ian Sea" The name abala or &abala mayactually be a corru!tion and imitation of Babylon$ %ust as the Phoenician name of the !ort

city of &ebal was"

abala may ha#e been under the domination of the -ittites at one time$ and thus

Edomites through many marriages of Esau with -ittite women" &og is liely an

Amaleite title" If this is true$ then the Amaleites and their ancestor Esau may be the lin between &og and agog of Bible !ro!hecy"

The name abala is interestingly also associated with mysticism$ alchemy and magic"

And the #ery name agog may ha#e come to be associated with them as well" It)s been



shown that the -ebrew al!habet has only one letter used for both c and g" It)s then easy to

see a #ery striing similarity of the words agog and English magic" agog may ha#e

become associated with magic in lins to both Babylon and Egy!t" Both nations !robablytraded for metals and minerals used in science and magic" The land of agog then

became associated with magic arts in the ancient world and may ha#e e#en acuired and

mastered the craft itself from its trading !artners" It may be that gy!sies originated heretoo" They ha#e long been belie#ed to ha#e migrated from Iran and somewhere close to

this region" The word gy!sy is a corru!tion of Egy!tian" &y!sies were belie#ed to ha#e

come from Egy!t" This is commonly held to be an erroneous assum!tion$ but there mayactually be a connection with Egy!t through ancient trading lins"

The name agog may also be found in the name for the agyars$ who settled in today)s

-ungary" The agyar name has been lined also to another form$ ugel$ which issimilar to ongol" The agyars ha#e been lined to many nomadic tribes of central

Asia$ notably Alans$ A#ars$ Bulgars$ Kha*ars and -uns" -uns ha#e been shown to once

com!rise many different ethnic grou!s and tribes of far flung regions4 e#en &ermanic

tribes were allied with the -uns"

The name -un has been shown to deri#e !ossibly from a &ree and atin word onus oronos$ the name of a wild ass of central Asia" Such a word may ha#e originally been used

as a derogatory descri!tion of the -uns as (wild asses)"There is a consensus that the

agyars originated in Siberia and mo#ed into what is Finland today and then mo#ed onto settle -ungary" The Finnish language is indeed related to the agyar language of

-ungary 6Finnish and -ungarian, maybe also Basue, are notably the only languages not

related to the Indo,Euro!ean languages of the rest of Euro!e:" It may be that the Finns

originally s!oe a different language than they do today and ado!ted the language theyha#e now when they were sub%ugated by the agyars" The !ro!het E*eiel associated

agog with &og and a land to the north of Israel 6agyarGongol homeland in

A*erbai%an or e#en Siberia5, E*e" ;@0=:"

Some tribes such as the -uns and agyars may then ha#e descended or mi/ed with

descendants of biblical agog$ grandson of Noah" The -uns and agyars ha#e also beenlined to agog)s !ossible homeland in the .aucasus region$ retreating there after ma%or

setbacs in Euro!e" The !ossibly related Kha*ars dominated !arts of this region as well$

a!!earing to be a later offshoot of the original -un confederation" The Kha*ars con#erted

to Hudaism shortly after the a!!earance of Islam and the Arab in#asion of the .aucasusregion and Anatolia" This may lin the agyar name with the -ebrew word magor$

(fear)" -istory shows this to be an a!t descri!tion$ as the agyars were nown to be uite

fearsome"

Names for the land called edia now in Iran and the edes undoubtedly come from

adai" The edes ha#e been lined by some to the modern Kurds"

Ha#an)s name is commonly held to be found in the name Ionia$ in Asia inor"

inguistically 6notably in atin: the i and o in Ionia together stand for %a and # in Ha#an"



Elishah has often been identified with .y!rus" The name .y!rus itself is belie#ed by

many to come from .a!htorim$ i*raim)s son" The similarity of names lie .y!rus and

.a!htorim to the word (co!!er) are clues$ because from an early date .y!rus was widelynown for its co!!er mines"

Tubal has been associated with Asia inor and ad%acent areas to the north" eshech has been associated with ussia and Sla#ic countries" The name eshech e#en sounds

Sla#ic" E#en more re#ealing !erha!s is the Assyrian form of the name eshech$ usu

or usi" Is this name found in oscow today5

The name Sla# means 'sla#e'$ from atin scla#us$ which is clearly the name gi#en by

omans$ eastern omans at least$ to !eo!le north and east of them in what are now called

(Sla#ic) countries$ !eo!le who traded sla#es with them" E*eiel associated eshech 6alsoHa#an and Tubal: with sla#e trading 6E*eiel =90<;:" The sla#s may ha#e gotten to Euro!e

both by migrating from the east or being de!orted to Euro!e by the Assyrians" There are

indeed many root words in Sla#ic languages which a!!ear lined to Aadian and

languages of eso!otamia" In Euro!e they would ha#e been absorbed by the omanEm!ire"

Kittim or .hittim was a common name for islands and coasts of &reece and Italy$ also

.y!rus" Some deri#e -ittite from Kittim instead of from -eth" any belie#e Tarshish

often meant what is now S!ain" Tarshish has been identified with se#eral !laces nownfor sea trade" The name of the a!ostle Paul)s hometown of Tarsus may ha#e been deri#ed

from Tarshish" The !eo!le of Tarshish were a!!arently a seagoing !eo!le and s!read far

and wide" Tarshish is also sometim Tarshish" Tarshish is also identified with Tyre" Tyre

may also be somehow lined to the ancestor Tiras either in meaning or !ro!hetically"

+n close study$ the name Ashena*$ for &omer)s son$ is uite re#ealing" I belie#e it is a

!ro!hetic name tied to an incident and Noah)s corres!onding blessing and curse 6&en"@0=C,=9:" There is uite !ossibly a dee! meaning to the name Ashena*" The name has

been lined to a western form$ Ascanius and an eastern$ Assyrian form$ Asu*ai or

Ishu*a" In the -ebrew language and grammar$ an initial #owel lie the a at the beginning of Ashena* often means it is a ualifier4 it is often dro!!ed off in a form of

abbre#iation nown as a!hesis" For e/am!le$ in the name Ichabod$ chabod means 'glory'$

and the i is a negation$ as in (no) or (not)" So the name Ichabod means (no glory) or (the

glory is no more$ the glory has de!arted") The letter a$ from the -ebrew letter ale!h$ isoften silent$ what)s called a (glottal sto!)" It often acts to turn a noun into a #erb" I belie#e

Ashena* then means (will dwell) or !ossibly (has dwelt)" Shena* would then mean

dwelling or tent and the !refi/ a ualifies it to a !ast$future or action tense" A similar-ebrew word is sheinah which means (to dwell)" The word came to mean (to radiate)$ in

the sense of an indwelling of &od" The glowing or halo surrounding a !erson or !lace

was e#idence of the !resence of &od dwelling there"

In the &ree language there is a word similar and !robably related to Ashena*" It is

esenosen which means (dwelled)$ (dwelt) or (had dwelt)" The initial e is a ualifier$ as in

-ebrew" The word is deri#ed from the &ree word sene$ which means (a dwelling)" +ne



ty!e of dwelling is a tent$ common in the ancient world" The &ree word most definitely

has the meaning of 'a dwelling'" The -ebrew word saan is both a noun for (tent) and a

#erb for (to dwell)" Incidently$ the English word scene$ as in a stage or setting in a !lay$ isderi#ed from the same &ree word sene" The -ebrew word sheinah has also already

been shown to be closely related" It is also interesting that the English word shine$ as well

as &erman schein are not that different from the -ebrew word sheinah ins!elling$!ronunciation and in !art of its meaning"

The meaning in the name Ashena* re#eals a lin to Noah)s blessing 6&en" @0=9:" Noahreferred to both tents and dwelling when he blessed Ha!heth" Was Ashena* named with

reference to this blessing5 The meaning e/!lained abo#e would definitely indicate that"

So were the !eo!le descended from Ashena* meant to fulfill this blessing5 And were

they to ha#e a s!ecial relationshi! with the !eo!le descended from Shem5 It may a!!earso" )To dwell in tents) might also be taen to mean to interbreed or intermarry"

The name Ashena* can !ossibly be seen in some !lace names" ost scholars agree that

the Scythians of the ussian ste!s and northern Iran$ nown to the &rees as Scythai$ areof the family of Ashena*" The Scythian name almost certainly comes from the Assyrian

form of Ashena*$ Asu*ai" When the ualifying a is dro!!ed$ the lin with Scythia andsu*ai is a!!arent" If one taes the name Ascanius$ the western 6atini*ed: form of

Ashena*$ and similarly dro!s the initial a$ scanius a!!ears" This word can clearly be

connected to the names of northern Euro!e lie Scandina#ia$ Scania$ Scand*a$ etc" In-ebrew$ #owels are often not recorded" So Ashena* would be recorded something lie

shn*" The similarity to scanius is striing when this is done"<

Not all that much is nown of the Scythians" They are often associated with ruthless barbarism" The Scythian language is e/tinct$ but held to be related to the Iranian

languages" Interestingly$ almost all of the languages of Euro!e are related to Iranian"

There is much linguistic and archaeological e#idence that suggests that a !owerful !eo!leconnected to Iran dominated much of Euro!e$ es!ecially northern Euro!e" If a western

form of Scanian$ can be reconstructed from Scythian$ it becomes clear where these

!eo!le had much influence"

any wea!ons a!!ear to be named after the Scythians" The English scythe and !robably

sicle are uite !robably deri#ed from the Scythian name" They !robably bore wea!ons

lie these im!lements" The Scythians ha#e also been identified with the Sacae$ a ste!!e !eo!le of the Blac Sea area lie the Scythians" This name a!!ears to be another form for

Scythian" There is a -ebrew word saa for nife" It is considered a loan word and could

#ery well come from sacae$ being one of the wea!ons carried by its namesae !eo!le"The English word Sa/on is also deri#ed from the sae/$ the nife the Sa/ons carried" Is

there a connection5 The Sa/ons were &ermanic tribes" any oman records attest that

many &ermans !roclaimed that they were Scythians"

The English word sac a!!ears related to -ebrew saan 6tent:" A sac contains or co#ers

lie a tent" As stated earlier$ it is often hel!ful to tae out the #owels in a word to get at

the consonants$ which re#eal the root of the word" If you tae out the #owels of all these



words$ one is left mostly with s$ sn$ sn*$ etc" They all a!!ear loosely connected$ often

in roundabout ways" The English word sin a!!ears connected" It is also a co#ering$

container or housing$ lie a sac or tent 6saan:" Also$ tents are often made from animalsins" The meaning of the English word sac as in (to destroy) or (!illage) many also

ha#e connections to the Sacae or Scythians 6Scanians: since they were nown for

barbarous !illaging"

In short$ linguistic$ historic and archaeological e#idence suggests that the Sa/ons and

other &ermanic !eo!le were descended from Ashena*" Hews who are of Nordic descentand !hysical characteristics call themsel#es (Ashena*i) Hews" There is clearly a

connection" .eltic !eo!le ha#e also claimed to be descended from Ashena* and the

Scythians" +ne atin form for Scythian is Scotti" This name was ado!ted by the Scots

and gi#en to the name of Scotland" The -ebrew word suot or succoth means'tabernacle'$ 'booth' or 'tent'" It a!!ears striingly similar to scot" Suot is !robably a

dialectical #ariation$ !ossibly Assyrian by way of the Samarians$ of saan" Both words

mean tent$ also called booth or tabernacle" The Iranian or Scythian influence in Euro!e is

detectable in many ethnic branches lie .eltic$ Italic$ ?oric$ &ermanic$ etc"

-am$ or .ham$ is also a -ebrew name used for Egy!t" .ham also means 2boiling3$2hot3$ 2tro!ical3" A &ree word for Egy!t is Khemia" This is lined to English chemical

and alchemy$ which is hea#ily associated with Egy!t"< -am)s sons are i*raim$ Phut$

.ush"and .anaan" .anaan and his descendants too to the sea to esca!e their fate ofsla#ery" They left eso!otamia by boat and thri#ed on the coastlands" They uicly

mo#ed along the coasts of Arabia and made their way both to South Asia and Africa"

Some went into the ed Sea and into Palestine"

The .anaanites were doomed to ser#e the descendants of both Shem and Ha!heth" The

name .anaan also bears an eerie similarity to the name .ain$ the Bible)s first murderer"

The Bible also may #ery well indicate that the .anaanites were seafarers or had lins tosea trade4 the Bible re#eals that the .anaanites (are li#ing by the sea and by the side of

the Hordan they seem to be associated with the water$ ob#iously for sustenance and most

liely as a means of trans!ort 6Nm" <;0=@:"

The .anaanites may well ha#e been the world)s first sea traders" Indeed$ the English

word merchant may be lined to the .anaanites" The word is !ossibly deri#ed from the

words mer or mar$ for 'sea'$ and chant$ for .anaanite" So the word merchant mightliterally mean (sea .anaanite)" The word for (sea) might ha#e lins to -ebrew marah$

(bitter water)" Indeed$ a -ebrew word for merchant is enaaniy"

.anaan)s families brought the families of -am)s other sons into Africa" i*raim ga#e his

name to Egy!t in the -ebrew language" Egy!t has also been called 2the land of -am3"

Nimrod had gi#en lands of eso!otamia the name of his father .ush" The descendants of .ush came into what is now Ethio!ia"

By the time of Peleg$ the great great grandson of Shem$ men had s!read out far from

eso!otamia" By then they had de#elo!ed distinctly different languages and cultures"



The curse on Shem for warring against Nimrod would finally be lifted in the time of

Abraham" -e and his family li#ed in .haldea in the far south of eso!otamia along the

Persian &ulf coast" They had connections to the sea and made some of their wealth fromsea trading" They were faintly aware of Palestine through .anaanite seafarers"

Abraham)s father Terah too his family northwest along the Eu!hrates to -aran whereSyria is today" There Abraham got the call to mo#e to the !romised land of Palestine"

Abraham)s family was following the Fertile .rescent to a#oid the harsh deserts" Abraham

bought land from the .anaanite !eo!le of the land when he mo#ed into Palestine" TheHordan #alley still resembled the original &arden of Eden 6&n" <70 :" Philistines were

beginning to come from the sea" -ittites and other .anaanites li#ed along the coast going

all the way into Asia inor" Amorites$ -ittites and Hebusites li#ed in the hills"

The Philistines$ who ga#e their name to the Promised and$ were also of the line of -am

as the .anaanites" They descended from .asluhim 6&n" <C0<7:" The name .asluhim is

related to the -ebrew for the constellation +rion$ which was #ery im!ortant to the

Philistines and Egy!tians"<

The Philistines were great sailors and na#igators as were many of the bloodline of -am"They originated in Pathros near the Nile delta close to &a*a in Palestine and the city of

Pelusium$ the name of this city connected to their own" The -ebrew name for them is

Pelesheth" In &reece they were nown as Peleset and Pelasgians" Pelesheth is lined to-ebrew !alash meaning 'to migrate' or (roll in dust)" Pelusium in &ree meant (mud) or

(clay)" Pelusium refers to the Egy!tian word sinw for fortress$ hence the name Sin$ in the

Bible"<

The Philistines were e/iled to .a!htor which is the island of .rete 6Am" @09:" They came

to Israel from there" They were nown as Pelethites and .herethites in Israel" Pelethites

refers to the Philistines and .herethites refers to .retans" They also went to the &reemainland" They became a !art of the Arcadians there" They made u! !art of the !eo!le of

ancient Italy and too !art in the founding of the city of ome"

Abraham was closely related to the .haldeans" The name for the .haldeans in -ebrew is

Kesed 6Kasdites: and is the same name for a ne!hew of Abraham 6&n" ==0=C,==:" The

.haldeans descended from this Kesed$ son of Nahor" Kesed is also the brother of Bethuel$

ebeah)s father"

By se#eral meanings of the name Kesed$ se#eral connections can be made$ including to

the land of .haldea itself" The name Kesed is most liely related to the -ebrew wordasid for 2religious3"< The word also is certainly connected to words for '!ious'$ 'ind'

and e#en 'maternal'$ being used also for the stor"

As a word for something religious$ the connection is e#en stronger with the use of the

word .haldean for !riests and astrologers" The name came to mean Babylonians in

general as well as !riests and astrologers" The cousins of Abraham by this name were

semi,nomadic$ lie Abraham himself$ and are nown to ha#e mo#ed between u!!er



eso!otamia and the Persian &ulf" any of them !robably settled$ ending u! on both the

Persian &ulf and !oints along the Eu!hrates i#er$ e#en as far as the editerranean

coast"

Abraham encountered Amorites when he came to Palestine" They had a #ery !owerful

ingdom for a time" They e#en ruled in Babylon for some time under such famous rulersas -ammurabi" any of them allied themsel#es with Abraham in his struggles with the

ings of eso!otamia and Sodom"

In this struggle a !owerful alliance of northern ings and eso!otamia attaced the ings

of .anaan" Sodom allied with Ooar and other ingdoms near Abraham" The .anaanite

ings rebelled after a treaty with eso!otamia" They rebelled in an e#il and !ro!hetic

thirteenth year 6&n" <707:"

Abraham unad#isedly rescued his ne!hew ot and his goods from the northern ings"

&od would !unish him for his act$ in#oing the ancient curse of amech" Abraham)s

descendants would go into sla#ery for four hundred ninety years$ most of that in Egy!t"

&od also maes mention that Abraham)s seed would !ush or wi!e out the Amorites afteran e/ile in Egy!t 6&n" <80<;,<J:" The Amorites would be !unished for their satanic false

religion and !ractices" They included a doomed race of giants or mighty men"

ot was a herder lie his uncle Abraham" ot desired good !asture for his li#estoc and

chose a fi/ed location that was desirable" But he ultimately made a bad decision" It

a!!ears he chose what he could see himself at hand and not to go more by faith and

a!!arently to a#oid hardshi! and the unnown lie Abraham"

ot didn)t desire to li#e in a city$ but his com!romises caused him to end u! in Sodom"

-e ne#er com!romised his morals$ but we are told that he was surrounded and tormented by e#il !eo!le" -e shows no signs of liing the sins of Sodom$ but he did a!!arently lie

all the comforts it had to offer$ beginning with the initial fact that the area was well

watered" -e surely was attracted to the nearby marets where he could sell his !roduceand buy new things" -e surely lied the !rotection of the city$ which he found out was

false" We e#en find him li#ing within the city itself %ust before its destruction"

ot)s bloodline was !assed on through his sons oab and Ammon$ or Ben,Ammi 6&en"<@0;9,;:" Not much is nown of these two sons" We only now of the nations of oab

and Ammon and that they were o!!osed to Israel" The name oab itself describes the

incestuous origin of this !eo!le$ meaning (mother,father) in -ebrew" They are nown forusing se/ual relations to curse Israel 6Num" =80;<:$ something that was !robably at the

heart of oab)s demise itself$ from their beginning" This may ha#e been ultimately !artly

ameliorated by uth the oabitess$ who married into the Hewish !eo!le$ becoming anancestor of Hesus .hrist"

So the only characteristics that can be seen concerning the oabites and the Ammonites

is in se/ual relations and in their cosmo!olitan origin" They originated at the destruction



of Sodom$ a once desirable city" The word Sodom itself is associated with immoral and

unlawful se/uality"

It)s interesting to loo into the origin of the word Sodom more carefully" The word in

-ebrew means (burnt)$ (scorched)" The consonants sd corres!ond to words all associated

with fire$ ash and smoe" The s corres!onds to either -ebrew esh for 'fire'$ or ashan for'smoe'$ and d corres!onds to ed or uwd$ for 'mist' or 'smoe'" It)s interesting to note that

English soot$ might be related"<

The word Sodom is #ery similar to English sodium$ an element used in many highly

e/!losi#e chemical reactions and com!ounds as well as salt which most now is

associated !articularly with Sodom and its region" Sodom was located in Sittim or

Shittim$ a name which might ha#e %ust been a #ariant for Sodom" The m at the end ofthese words !robably magnifies the force of the word$ as in (much ash and smoe)" E#en

the name for Satan may be somehow related to Sodom" Satan is often !ortrayed with fire

and smoe"

After Sodom was destroyed ot fled with his daughters to a ca#e" The oabites and

Ammonites li#ed in ca#es or underground e#er since 6&n" <@0;C:" They were often at war with the nation of Israel and other nations" They were often subdued and reduced to

sla#ery" Their ingdoms disa!!eared and it would be assumed that they intermingled with

other !eo!les" They mi/ed !artly with the Arabs"

The word Arab itself might e#en mean (mi/ed) or (mingled(" They)#e been considered by

some to be a mongrel race" The !ro!het E*eiel e#en referred to a mingled !eo!le

associated with Egy!t as well as Ethio!ia$ ibya$ etc 6E*e";C08:" The -ebrew word arabmeans to intermi/$ mingle" The word also means 'to braid' and also 'to traffic' or 'trade It

also has the meaning of co#ering and crossing o#er$ similar to -ebrew eber and cheber" It

is often a!!lied to clothing'$ as clothing is created by braiding and crossing o#er$ as institching" It also a!!lies to clothing in its sense of co#ering the body" It also has been

a!!lied to darness or dus as in the sun being co#ered o#er" It also has the meaning of

sterile$ as in closed off" It has been a!!lied to the desert$ a!!arently as something closedoff to humanity"<

An Arab might fit all of these meanings" Arabs usually li#e in deserts" Arabs often traffic

and trade" Arabs are usually co#ered in clothing to !rotect them from the sun" They aree#en usually dar,sinned" They might #ery well be a mongrel !eo!le with no distinct

ancestry"

Abraham)s son Isaac was born by faith and had no blood ties to beast men" But

Abraham)s sons Ishmael and idian$ among others$ were tainted by beast blood and

characteristics"

Ishmael was described as a 'wild' man and an archer 6&n"<J0<=4 =<0=C:" The -ebrew

word used to describe Ishmael is !ereh$ which is the same word used for the wild ass"<

The -uns would fit this descri!tion4 their name e#en means 'wild ass' and they were great



archers" The name for the nation of -ungary is !robably lined to English onager from

&ree onos and agros 6field:$ for a wild ass of central Asia" The name -un was deri#ed

from this word and came to English by way of atin"

We thin of Ishmael and his descendants as being more in Arabia than central Asia" But

the Bible only indicates the Ishmaelites to be rather nomadic and in#ol#ed with cara#ansand trade routes" The -uns were somewhat lie this" Ishmael was half Egy!tian and

settled furthest east of Abraham)s !eo!le" any of his descendants became !art of the

2sons of the east3 and the 2ings of the east3 6&en" <J0<=:"

The name -un and the related name of -ungary ha#e also been lined to a striingly

similar archaic word onugur$ for (ten arrows)" (Ten arrows) may ha#e been a -unnish

twisting of the real and much less flattering meaning used by the atin west" It isinteresting to note by the way that (ten arrows) sounds eerily similar to (ten horns) and ten

ings in Bible eschatology"

The word onugur a!!ears to be the root of many other deri#ations of the names of !eo!les such as the hgurs of central Asia and language grou!s such as gric and

grian" There may e#en be a lin to !eo!le of the garitic culture of the ancient iddleEast as well as -urrians and !eo!le of the Bible nown as the -orim or -orites" -orite

means 'ca#e dweller'"

The name of idian means 'contentious' or 'brawler' in -ebrew" -is descendants settled

south of Palestine along the ed Sea coast" They would maintain ties with Ishmael)s

descendants and would become staunch foes of Isaac and his descendants"

Isaac)s two sons Hacob and Esau were twins" Hacob recei#ed no tainted blood of beasts"

But Esau had mi/ed beast blood 6&n" =80=8,=94 =90<<:" Esau was also called Edom" -e

dis!leased his !arents by marrying into the -ittites" Esau also married into the -orites or-orim 6see &enesis cha!ter ;J:" Esau)s descendants often li#ed in ca#es taing on the

characteristics of bears and other beasts"

The .haldeans were connected to !riests and religion from early times" It is almost

certain that their !rowess as !riests came from the fact that they were connected to the

!eo!le of Abraham" It could be said that this family in general had a s!ecial connection to

&od" But the .haldeans a!!ear to ha#e used it in a bad way" The e#il Balaam was mostliely related by blood to Abraham and the Israelites" -e was from Pethor in

eso!otamia$ a!!arently the same area of u!!er eso!otamia 6-aran: where Abraham

had dwelt for some time 6Num" ==08:" Balaam had such s!ecial sills that the ing ofoab and the idianites sent for him" This was most liely a common !ractice in the

ancient world" It may be that !riests were hired lie this and that !riests in many em!ires

were not of the local !eo!le but descended from the .haldeans as Balaam could wellha#e been"

The Amaleites organi*ed the first nation 6Num" =70=C:" ?escended from Esau$ they were

a branch of the Edomites$ a nation that !robably hated Israel more than any other" This



hatred e/ists today" The hatred e/tends down through the branches of the Amaleites and

Agagites"

Esau married into the -ittite !eo!le" They descended from -eth$ the son of .anaan"6&en"

;J0<,;:" So the Edomite bloodline mingled with the original !eo!le of Asia inor$

modern Turey and the .aucasus region who dominated Asia inor and the .aucasusregion before the -ittites did" These !eo!le would e#entually mae their way into ussia

and Siberia" A common symbol of the iddle East is the crescent" The ancient symbol of

By*antium was a star and a crescent$ interestingly the emblem of Turey today" The Bible6NASL Hdg" 0=J: s!ecifically mentions that the idianites had crescent ornaments" This

re#eals$ first of all$ that the crescent e/isted as a symbol long before Islam" Esau also

married into the idianite and Ishmaelite !eo!le" So a connection can be made between

Esau$ Edomites$ idianites$ Ishmaelites$ -ittites and By*antium"

The Turs readily ado!ted the crescent when they mo#ed into Asia inor" +r did they

already ha#e it for a long time5 Were they new to Anatolia and Asia inor$ or were they

%ust returning to a land they were already familiar with5 When they ado!ted Islam$ was it %ust a co#er for an older faith$ the faith of their old -ittite o#erlords$ which was also the

faith of the idianites$ Ishmaelites$ .anaanites and Esau5 The crescent was a !rominentsymbol for ages" It undoubtedly re!resented the feminine moon and night" All of these

!eo!le ado!ted Islam" Was it %ust a co#er for an older faith5 It)s interesting how the

By*antine symbol for this region hasn)t changed to this day$ through all the swee!ingchanges o#er the centuries in Asia inor and the iddle East"

There is no modern nation tied directly to Edom 6Esau:" The descendants of Esau ha#e

surely intermingled with most of the world)s !o!ulation" We might as in what nation can be seen the characteristics of the original ancestor" Physically$ Esau was nown to be

hairy and of reddish color 6&en" =80=84 =90<<:" eddish might mean red hair or reddish

sin$ or both" But the most im!ortant characteristic was that Esau was a hunter and a manof the wilderness 6&en" =80=9:" -is actions describe a !erson with no desire for authority

or formality and concern more for his immediate needs than for s!iritual or !olitical ones

6&en" =80;C,;7:" The !eo!le who ama*ingly fit this characteristic the most are thenomadic !eo!le of northern Asia and North America" I might e#en note lightheartedly

that American Indians ha#e e#en been called )edsins)" It doesn)t seem a stretch though

to see the land of Edom most clearly as wilderness" The land of Edom might also be

considered underground$ as the -orim were nown ca#edwellers" oab and Ammonmight also be considered underground as their ancestor ot became a ca#e dweller after

the cataclysmic destruction of Sodom and &omorrhah" A little nown !eo!le of Asia

inor were nown as Isaurians" +ne can see the name Esau clearly in the name of these !eo!le" They were nown as being rough and wild" The name Esau itself is lined to the

-ebrew word asah$ (rough)" A few Isaurians managed to become Em!erors of the Eastern

oman Em!ire and of By*antium"<

By*antium e#entually fell into the hands of the omans" The omans were a mi/ture of

Italic and Etruscan !eo!le among others" The Etruscans !robably came from Troy" The

name of this city might be faintly detected in the tru of the word Etruscan" The city of



Troy may ha#e also been a namesae colony of Tyre" The Tyrhennian Sea west of Italy

also betrays the influence of Tyre" Tyre was a great mercantile city with a #ast sea em!ire"

Archaeology has re#ealed a !robable middle,eastern origin of the Etruscans" They !robably originated in Tyre or Troy" oman mythology tells that the oman hero Aeneas

fought in the Tro%an wars and hel!ed to found ome" This further substantiates this

connection" The name of Troy may be a du!lication and corru!tion of the name of Tyre"Ancient !eo!le often named newer cities after older ones" &od condemned Tyre through

E*eiel 6E*e" =J$ =9 and =:" Tyre had !owerful influence o#er other !eo!les and

nations" Indeed Isaiah also !redicted that Tyre)s sister city Sidon would mo#e o!erationsto .hittim$ a !lace belie#ed to be associated with Italy 6Is" =;0<=:"

Tyre was !robably connected by marriage to Esau by way of the .anaanites" The -ittites

then had a connection to Tyre through Esau" By*antium and Troy were both in -ittiteterritory formerly" So was ome really %ust an e/tension of Tyre and the -ittite em!ire as

well as Babylon5 Probably" The Italic element of the omans were !robably descended

from Ashena* by way of the Scythians" Ascanius was said to be a ing with a ingdom

nown as Ascania"

There seem to be a few common elements within the enemies of Israel0 they all hadconnections to Esau$ Ishmael and idian" These were all cousins of the !atriarchs of

Israel" ?id their descendants harbor a dee! hatred of Israel and stir u! the !eo!le of the

lands where they went$ against Israel5 It a!!ears so" Esau$ Ishmael and idian wouldha#e liely learned some of the wisdom$ nowledge and customs of &od through their

ancestor Abraham" But they also would ha#e nown of magic and sorcery through the

.anaanites with whom they intermarried" They undoubtedly taught this to the !eo!le they

dominated" They went by land and by sea" They dominated through trade$ most of whichde!ended on the sea" They became demagogues"

The ne/t nation to threaten Israel was Aram" The Aramaeans were #ery !owerful forsome time" Their god immon was associated with thunder" -ebrew ram or rum is

cognate$ meaning (thunder)" It)s interesting that thunder (rumbles) in English" am meant

(e/alted) or (lofty) and may ha#e come to be associated with thunder because thunderseems to come from high abo#e" This would ha#e an ob#ious a!!lication to a god" The

name of ome and its re!uted founder omulus may be of related deri#ation" The name

of the Egy!tian god a may be lined" The name Aram is !robably related$ as well as

Abram and Abraham"

The Aramaean ingdom was destroyed by Assyria and its !eo!le e/iled to Kir 6Am" @09:"

The Assyrians were one of the greatest enemies of Israel" They began a legacy ofdis!lacing !eo!les from their own homeland so that they would lose identity" ost of the

Israelites would not esca!e this !ractice"

Assyria was a su!reme military !ower for hundreds of years" Its national god Asshur

reflected the warlie #alues of Assyria The name of this god most liely means (ha!!y) or

(blessed)$ with ob#ious ties to wealth" The name is related to Semitic words for wealth$



fertility$ increase and ha!!iness or blessedness$ etc" The -ebrew name Asher is certainly

related$ with natural lins to wealth and !ros!erity"

Two basic roots mae u! the word asher" AshGish means (fire) 6somehow related to

English ash5: and er 6ur: means (e/alted) and also (glowing($ (shining($ (!rominent($ as in

a gleaming mountain !ea or tower 6notice atin aura$ aurora$ aurum$ (gold)$ English ore$etc":" -ebrew ashar and osher mean (accumulation)$ (increase)$ (riches)$ etc" A

connection can be drawn between fire$ wealth and !ros!erity and the god Asshur through

worshi! and burnt offerings$ a common cult !ractice in the Near East" The di#inity wouldha#e been naturally sought for !ros!erity and gain" Wealth would naturally be connected"

Being able to burn away #aluable commodities for the gods was a sign of wealth"

Interestingly$ certainly related -ebrew words are asrah and asarah$ (ten) and issaron$

(tenth)" These are clearly lined through offerings and the conce!t of the tithe"<

Asshur was closely associated to war and often lined to the !lanet ars$ as was the

oman god with that name" Wealth and !ros!erity could clearly be lined to war$ in both

!ositi#e and negati#e terms" War could bring gain or loss" Fertility could bring a higher !o!ulation$ which could sadly be used to mae war" &rimly$ decimation 6which

interestingly means (tenth): was in#ol#ed with war" The omans were nown to ill atenth of an army if it failed in war$ a !ractice nown as (decimation)>

Some ha#e lined Asshur to Nisroch$ which was also the name of the national god ofAssyria" Also nown as Esdrach and Asorach$ Nisroch was !ortrayed by an eagle" The

eagle may ha#e been associated with ars as both being flying abo#e" -ebrew for eagle

is interestingly ne*er" -ebrew na*ar means (consecrated) hence na*arite$ or (diadem)"

This may be related to a Semitic word nasi for (!rince) from which comes ne**ar" This is !robably connected to the name of the god" Another word with root na* is related to

(watcher) and (watchtower)" Some ha#e lined this to the city of Na*areth 6watchtower:

where .hrist li#ed" Watcher may be lined to eagle by the fact that eagles are in a !osition to watch from abo#e$ where they fly" Also$ angels ha#e been called (watchers)

6?an" 70<;$ <9$ =;:"

The Assyrians !ut !ressure on the .anaanites of ebanon also" The seafaring em!ire of

Phoenicia was born in the struggles with Assyria" Phoenicia s!read across the

editerranean %ust as Tyre was falling into Assyrian hands" The name Tyre comes from

-ebrew sur 6tsowr: for (roc)$ (hard)$ (flint) or (fortified)" This certainly alludes to thestone walls and towers of the city of that name" It)s interesting that English tower seems

connected" +n close ins!ection$ one can find what seem to be many !ermutations of the

word with interesting connections to Tyre" Another -ebrew word$ sur$ means (tra#el) aswell as (merchant)$ e#en (minstrel)$ (harlot) and (bull)" The city of Tyre was hea#ily

associated with merchants and long,distance sea tra#el" It was also referred to as a harlot

by se#eral !ro!hets" A clearly related !ermutation is -ebrew tor meaning (wall)$ (ring)$(merchantman($ (go about)$ (turn)$ etc" It also means (bulloc)$ in the sense of ro#ing or

meandering as a bull might do" This word is undoubtedly related to &ree tauros for

'bull'" And in the sense of a bull as a tra#eller$ there also seems to be a connection to

English tour" Bulls were worshi!!ed in Tyre and its region" The connection to Tyre is



e#en more !ronounced in the &ree myth of Euro!a" In the myth$ Euro!a was the

daughter of the ing of Tyre" She was abducted by the god Oeus in the form of a white

bull and taen to .rete" This story enca!sulates the fact that Tyre had a great influence onEuro!e in e#ery way" The story illustrates a transfer of themes form Asiatic Tyre to

Euro!ean .rete" Euro!e is really %ust Tyre multi!lied4 it)s nothing but a giant sea!ort"<

In Euro!ean languages$ the hinterland of Tyre too its name from the city$ from whence

came the name of Syria$ from &ree Suria" Tyre is also connected with the name Turey$

for Asia inor or Anatolia" So names for both Syria and Turey might be traced to Tyre"It might e#en ha#e something to do with the Norse god Thor" The connection to Turey is

made e#en more striing by noticing that both Pergamos 6Pergos: there and Tyre both

ha#e the meaning of (fortress)$ and both are e/!licitly lined to Satan in the Bible 6E*"

=$ #" =0<=,<;:"

Nearby Tyre is Sidon$ which is clearly named after Sidon$ a descendant of .anaan" The

name of the city has been connected to (fishery)$ something clearly connected to a

sea!ort"

The Assyrians e/iled many of their enemies" Elamites were e/iled to Illyria where theywould mae their way e#entually to what is now Poland along the Amber oad" any

Syrians would be e/iled to what is now Sicily"

any Israelites were e/iled to !arts of the Assyrian em!ire" Some were taen as far as

southern Arabia$ others to Syria$ or Aram$ some to Asia inor and the .aucasus region

and some taen across the sea as far as S!ain" The Israelites ga#e the name of their

ancestor Eber to the Ebro i#er in S!ain and to the ancient name of S!ain$ Iberia itself"They ga#e this name also to Iberia$ the ancient name of a region of &eorgia in the

.aucasus"

The Bible refers to a !lace called Tarshish" Tarshish often referred to modern S!ain as

well as other !laces" Tarshish has often been euated with Tartessus in S!ain" any trade

goods identified in the Bible with Tarshish could easily ha#e come from S!ain"

When the !ro!het Honah fled Israel he was headed for Tarshish" -e left from the !ort of

Ho!!a in Israel according to the scri!tures 6Honah <0;:" If he was headed for a Tarshish on

the ed Sea$ he would ha#e left from the !ort of E*ion,&eber$ not Ho!!a" So the storysu!!orts the suggestion that Honah was headed for what is now S!ain" Why there5 It

could be that many other Israelites were already there$ e#en naming it after one of their

ancestors" Honah naturally would ha#e felt comfortable going to establishments of hisown !eo!le"

Israelite tribes on the coast of Israel had more access to sea tra#el" Honah was of the tribeof Oebulun$ whose territory was on the northern coast of Israel" The tribes of E!hraim and

?an also had territory on or near the coast at Ho!!a" So it might be assumed that many of

the tribes of E!hraim and ?an migrated to what is now S!ain" Some ha#e e#en lined

Ireland to S!ain through its old name of Iberia" An old name for Ireland was -ibernia and



some scholars claim the name was brought by some of the earliest settlers belie#ed to

ha#e come from Iberia"

It)s clear that many of Israel)s enemies are actually closely related to Israel" +ne may

e#en be from within Israel itself" The ?anite tribe$ descended from Hacob)s son ?an$ is

belie#ed by some to be the bloodline of the Antichrist" This is because the tribe of ?an isleft out of the list of the <77$CCC at the A!ocaly!se 6e#" 907,:" The Bible tells us the

fate of ?an 6&en" 7@0<J,<:" This tribe is nown for its failures in the conuest of

Palestine and for its idolatry and a!ostasy" It is not well nown that this tribe was hea#ilyassociated with the (sea !eo!le)$ sea trade and e/!loration" Their story maes clear that

the ?anites had close association with the sea 6Hudges 80<9:" And it)s interesting that this

tribe so associated with e#il is associated with the sea$ which is also usually seen as

something sinister in the Bible"

There are faint traces of !eo!le in history that may #ery well ha#e been the tribe of ?an"

They always are found connected to the sea and sailing" They a!!ear to ha#e been #ery

mobile and acti#e$ as well as so!histicated and industrious" They were also !art of agrowing culture based on sea tra#el and commerce"

There is good e#idence that many of the tribe of ?an migrated to &reece" -omer

mentioned two main &ree !eo!le in his Iliad" -e often refers to Achaeans and ?anaans"

-erodotus mentions a !eo!le of &reece called the ?anoi" There are a few ings of S!artawith (dan) in their names" So a!!arently S!arta had connections with Israel and the

?anites"< any S!artan families later became ruling elites in ome" The ?anites could

naturally ha#e migrated to Iberia also$ where they may ha#e had blood relations" ?an is

e#en associated with &reece 6&reece referred to as Ha#an: and the sea by the !ro!hetE*eiel 6E*e" =90<@ KHL:"

S!arta was located close to Arcadia$ a rustic region in the #ery southern !art of &reece"The name of this region certainly means (bear) or (land of bears) from &ree arctos for

bear" atin ursus for bear is surely related" The ar and ur res!ecti#ely !robably mean

something lie (s!ear) or (!oint)$ as in a bear)s !ointy shar! teeth" The name S!arta itselfalso a!!ears to mean (s!ear)" Also$ a common symbol or emblem of S!arta was a bear$

most liely for its militarism" Arcadia ha!!ens to be ad%acent to aconia the region

dominated by S!arta" Arcadia may also be lined to bears because it was nown as a

rustic region and bears are commonly found in such areas"

Both S!arta and Arcadia are not far from the island of .rete" If the tribe of ?an were

S!artans$ they could easily ha#e been connected to the Philistines in mainland &reece$.rete and Israel" ?id the tribe of ?an actually %oin with the Philistines5 Furthermore$ did

they migrate to &reece and dominate it5 ?id they then migrate to Italy and ome and

dominate it5 There is e#idence that indicates that it is !ossible"

Se#eral ancient oman writers claimed Arcadians hel!ed found ome" They also claim

the oman gods and oman al!habet were brought by the Arcadians as well as the

Pelasgians and the Etruscans" The &rees got their al!habet from the Phoenicians" I



would guess it was introduced by none other than the Pelasgians and the Arcadians"< The

tribe of ?an may also ha#e settled in Ireland" Interestingly$ one of the earliest !ieces of

literature of Ireland is called Tuathe de ?annan" This title has been translated literally$(tribe of ?an)" The !eo!le nown as the ero#ingians uite !ossibly descend from the

?anites also" The ero#ingians are somewhat !u**ling for historians and raise many

im!ortant uestions" They were a dynasty in Euro!e during the ?ar Ages"

The name ero#ingian sim!ly means (sea man) or (sea !eo!le)" But the ero#ingians

were su!!osedly a branch of the Frans and the Frans were a &ermanic tribe$ !eo!lewho had little to do with the sea" So it)s a bit of a mystery why a land !eo!le$ with little

original association with the sea would ado!t such a title"

The Frans were di#ided into two main !arts$ those that dwelt at the ri#er$ i!uarians6hine: and those that dwelt along the coast$ Salians 6salty:" This has been used as an

e/!lanation for the name of the ero#ingians" They were a !art of the Salian Frans of

the coasts" This would e/!lain their name"

But I belie#e this is an error" I thin that the ero#ingians were not &ermanic at all but

had mi/ed in with the Frans who had come u! the hine i#er from the hinterland" The !ur!orted !rogenitor of the Frans$ their ing ero#eus or ero#ech$ was belie#ed to

ha#e been sired by a sea beast called a uinotaur" This creature was similar to the

Philistine god ?agon and &ree water gods" Such a mythological creature was not acommon deity for &ermanic !eo!le but was rather a conce!t of seafaring !eo!le" This

was something foreign to the original &ermanic !eo!le" This is not to say that they were

inca!able of seafaring$ but they would ha#e seen no use for it and would not ha#e had an

interest in it originally" They had to be taught the benefits of sea tra#el and trade from aforeign seafaring !eo!le" The ero#ingians were most !robably seafarers who had

mo#ed u! the coasts of Euro!e" They !robably had ado!ted a sea god from the

Philistines$ with whom they were closely connected" After they had mi/ed in well withthe Frans$ the ero#ingians then e/!anded into what is now ?enmar" There they

dominated and influenced the religion and culture of the &ermanic !eo!le" Soon after$

they too to the sea as ?anes and Liings" ?anish and Liing shi!s often bore dragons ontheir bows" The ser!ent dragon was the emblem of the tribe of ?an$ as was the eagle$

which was also a common Nordic emblem" The name ?an then a!!ears among the

?anes" The ?anites could ha#e easily sailed u! the coasts from Israel to what are now

Normandy$ England$ Ireland and ?enmar"

So se#eral cultures had taen to the sea and de#elo!ed !owerful sea connections" They all

curiously had dar connections to those that hate Israel" Tyre$ Troy$ By*antium and omeall had connections to .anaanites$ Ishmaelites$ idianites and Edomites" ?anites added

themsel#es to the sea em!ires" The Bible suggests that the ?anites would betray Israel

6&enesis 7@0<J,<9:" All of these !eo!le hate Israel yet ha#e much in common with Israeland a dee! nowledge of &od" All of them are listed as enemies of Israel 6Ps" ;0J,:"

Notice also that &ebal is mentioned" This may refer to what is also nown as Byblos$ a

ty!e of cry!tic form of Babylon" These nations would be able to twist the truths of &od"



They would also be able to mi/ the truth of &od with the blac magic and sorcery of the

.anaanites"

As their ?anite cousins had$ the tribe of E!hraim had most liely taen to the sea through

Ho!!a$ which was close to their territory" ost of this tribe was !robably already lea#ing

Israel and heading for what is now S!ain" ore Israelites may ha#e been de!orted toS!ain by the conuering Assyrians by way of Ho!!a and Phoenician !orts lie Tyre and

Sidon" E!hraimites then could ha#e made their way to Britain and Ireland" It is widely

nown that Iberians were some of the first settlers of much of Britain and Ireland" Theywere there before .eltic !eo!le were"

E!hraimite bloodlines then could ha#e come to North and South America by way of

S!ain$ Britain and Ireland" The New World has often been euated by Bible scholars withE!hraim in the Bible" any of the !ro!hecies in the Bible regarding E!hraim ha#e e#en

been a!!lied to the Americas and the nited States4 it is !erha!s for this reason" The tribe

of E!hraim is also left out at the A!ocaly!se lie the tribe of ?an 6e#" 907,:" This has

been lined to the sins of Heroboam$ who was of that tribe and is enca!sulated in Isaiah)s !ro!hecy 6Is" =0<,;:"

The tribe of anasseh has been often euated with Britain also" If anasseh is euated

with Britain$ I belie#e this was by land by way of .elts and Anglo,Sa/ons" The tribe of

anasseh was hea#ily associated with the tribes of &ad and euben" These also hadterritory in !ro/imity of one another and all of these tribes were de!orted to Assyria"

They all may ha#e remained together loosely" When Assyria and Babylon were

conuered by Scythians 6Ashena*:$ the Israelites were most !robably absorbed into the

Scythian !eo!le and mo#ed into their homeland of what are now raine$ southernussia and northern Iran" These Israelites then most liely migrated with the Scythians

into northern Euro!e"

In -ebrew$ gad is !ronounced lie goth and the &oths of Euro!e were most liely

descended from the Israelite tribe of &ad" Both &ad and &oth mean (good fortune)" The

blessing of &ad foretold his descendants would be warlie and often threatened$ buttrium!hant in the end 6&en" 7@0<@:" The history of the &oths is #ery much lie this #ery

blessing" The Anglo,Sa/ons were !robably an offshoot of the tribes of &ad and

anasseh$ and a branch of the Scythians or Sacae" The name Sa/on comes from the

name of a nife which was most liely !ossessed originally by the Sacae" &ad also means(host)$ (troo!)$ (army)$ (multitude)" The word a!!ears to ha#e been originally a!!lied to

the stars$ !ercei#ed as a 'multitude' and belie#ed to ha#e !ower o#er fortune" The tribe of

&ad was nown to be large and silled in military acti#ity$ in a!!arent fulfillment of itsname" It)s interesting to note that the tribe of &ad may ha#e settled #ery close to the tribe

of ?an in Scandina#ia$ one coming by land from the east and the other by sea

res!ecti#ely"

The tribe of Asher may ha#e been de!orted by the Assyrians by sea" They may ha#e been

de!orted through one of the Phoenician !orts lie Tyre or Sidon" Syracuse in Sicily is

named after colonists from Syria" This may be a loose a!!ellation and mean any colonists



of Assyrian$ Samarian$ Aramaic and Israelite descent" The &rees are belie#ed to ha#e

brought colonists from Syria to Sicily" The &rees were !robably continuing a !ractice of

earlier em!ires lie Assyria and Babylon" So$ many of the regions on the editerraneancoast !robably ha#e bloodlines of the tribe of Asher" The tribe of Oebulon had territory

also near the coast" This tribe also !robably ended u! along the editerranean coast"

Assyria came into increasing com!etition with .haldeans$ edes and Persians" Assyria

couldn)t sto! the growing !ower of the .haldeans$ who made alliances with the edes

and Persians" The Scythians would hel! either side as it suited them from time to time"

The Persians did not deri#e their national name from an ancestor$ as many others did"

Persia stands out from most others for this reason$ but ob#iously also because it was once

a great world !ower with renowned wealth and far,reaching influence" It attained thestatus of em!ire and was famous for its military might$ its literature$ architectural

accom!lishments$ etc"

The origin of the name of Persia is the Semitic word !ere*$ which means (to di#ide) or (to breach)" It is the origin of the -ebrew name Pere*" The word is lined to the Persians as

horsemen" -orses ha#e (di#ided) hoo#es" Something lie a horse is the wild ass$ !ereh in-ebrew" The word could also be a!!lied to wild men$ which might be how the original

Persians were !ercei#ed$ as strangers from the Asian ste!!es"=

It)s interesting to note that a form of the word is found in the su!ernatural (handwriting

on the wall) 6?an" 80=8,=:" This inscri!tion concerns the transfer of Babylon to Persia

and its world domination" The corres!onding word itself is seen in different forms$

de!ending on translation$ either as u!harsin or !eres" !harsin has been shown to be acom!ound of u and !harsin where u is (and) and !harsin is (di#ided)" Peres$ also means

(di#ided)" English !art and !arse seem clearly related" And the Persians were also later

nown as Parthians in their history"

It may be !ossible that the name of the nation or em!ire of Persia came into e/istence

with the inscri!tion recorded by ?aniel" It may also be that Persia was seen as a di#ideror a breach in the established order of the world" It may be that Persia was seen as a

!rotecti#e (di#ide) between ci#ili*ation and barbarism or between light and dar" The

name of Persia mutated into Farsi" P commonly mutated into f in s!eech$ es!ecially in

Indo,Euro!ean languages" The word might ha#e become associated with enlightenmentand learning$ which are concerned with (di#iding)$ as in maing distinctions in conce!ts$

forms$ meanings$ etc"

The word Pharisee for the sect that often o!!osed .hrist may originate from the same

word" Pharisee is nown to come from &ree !harisaios$ by way of Aramaic !erishayya"

The &ree form is most liely related to another &ree word$ !hares" This word mayha#e been a!!lied to Pharaoh$ ing of Egy!t$ meaning (great house)" But it was also

a!!lied to the ighthouse at Ale/andria$ called !haros" So the word seems !ossibly

connected to light" ight was seen$ as mentioned earlier$ as a di#ider$ something that

di#ides day from night" It also is seen as a (breach) in the darness" ight was also



a!!lied figurati#ely to ings in the sense that their !ower and might were da**ling lie

light" Pharisees were students and teachers and were hea#ily concerned with meanings

and definitions" Their role was to (di#ide) one conce!t from another" They also wereres!onsible for the (light) of learning and education"

The word !haraoh most !robably is ain to -ebrew ra!ha" The Egy!tian word was mostliely %ust a metathesis of the -ebrew #ersion" In one sense it has the meaning (to heal) of

health and constitution" It is the root of the -ebrew name e!haim$ a !eo!le nown as

(the dead)" These were ain to the giants whom the Israelites destroyed from Palestine"The name e!haim more accurately !robably meant )returned from the dead) showing

the connection to healing" The Pharaohs all had themsel#es mummified and entombed

with the belief that they would come bac to life" Perha!s they were not mistaen" It has

been suggested that one way many of the giants were in Israel after the flood haddestroyed them in Noah)s time$ is that they returned from the dead"

Israel has many enemies" They came by land and by sea" There was a daunting array of

nations with #arying degrees of so!histication and !ower through the ages" It may be thatthe greatest threat to Israel was from within and its enemies found that their greatest

success came by intermarrying with Israel" Indeed$ &od had warned Israel of this danger"There were sects of foreign origin that had a !rofound influence on Israel" The agi who

#isited .hrist at his birth a!!ear to ha#e originated in Persia"

Shown earlier$ the Pharisees could easily ha#e originated in Persia lie the agi" Both

had a !owerful influence o#er Israel$ es!ecially the Pharisees" This may ha#e been a

design of the enemy" Some belie#e the agi originated in the courts of Babylon and

de#elo!ed ties with Israel through the !ro!het ?aniel at the time of the e/ile to Babylon"The Pharisees may ha#e also originated at this time and in this way" Indeed the word

Pharisee$ my come from the same root as Persia which included Babylon to which the

Hews had been e/iled" The scri!t of the ancient -ebrew language was e#en drasticallyaltered$ curiously at %ust about the time of the e/ile in Babylon" The Hewish calendar was

altered at this time as well$ many names of months borrowed from Babylonian names"

From this !oint in the Bible on$ readers of the Bible are getting a further narrowing down

within Semitic !eo!les of the line that would bear .hrist and a discarding of the rest"

There is also a !icture gi#en of the enemies of .hrist and Israel" Abraham #ery clearly is

the ne/t indicated with additional information added$ not only about .hrist$ but .hrist)singdom" Abraham)s ne!hew ot is discarded" -is sons are sired through incest" The

offs!ring Ammonites and oabites are discarded$ e/ce!t through uth who was added to

.hrist(s bloodline by marrying Boa* and begetting +bed 6att" <08:"

Then we see Isaac as the (seed of !romise) by Sarah" Ishmael$ of a concubine$ and the

Ishmaelites are then discarded" idian was also of a concubine" -e and the idianitesare also discarded" +thers are discarded" Ne/t we see Hacob getting &od)s blessing and a

new name$ Israel$ and Esau 6Edom: and the Edomites are discarded"



Then within HacobGIsrael)s own descendants we get an e#en narrower descri!tion of the

bearers of .hrist" Hudah is indicated as the ancestor of .hrist" The other sons or tribes are

discarded with #arious blessings and curses" The Bible gi#es #arious details on thesu!remacy of the tribe of Hudah and the !osition in &od)s nation" Accounts of the ings

shed some light on the birthrights 6< .hr" 80<,= :" The Psalms also illustrate how &od

whittled down the e/act lineage of .hrist 6Ps" 90J9,9= :" .ha!ter 7@ in &enesis gi#es thes!ecific details" It clearly mars Hudah with the highest honor and this surely also refers

to .hrist)s lineage 6&en" 7@0,<=:"

Within the family of Hudah can be seen the narrowing and refining to get the e/act

ancestor of .hrist" &enesis cha!ter ; gi#es details on how Pere* became the ancestor of

.hrist$ and not some of Hudah)s other sons"

+ne last note about the nations" The Bible often mentions that the nations undergo great

torment$ destruction and u!hea#al and that they will be healed in the end" At the end of

the gos!els there is a curious scene in which .hrist has Peter !ut out his fish nets" We are

gi#en a !eculiar bit of detail about the number of fish that are caught$ one hundred andfifty three" It has been remared that this number refers to the number of nations that will

e/ist at .hrist)s second coming" The !ro!het -abbau hints at this$ euating fish withnations 6-ab" <0<;,<9:"<

!hat"s in a ame

An im!ortant thing to remember about names is that they usually ha#e a !ro!hetic

meaning and determine the fate of the descendants of the original bearer of the name" Wenow that the .anaanites were in .anaan" But they were descendants of -am" Peleg$

Terah and Abraham were descended from Shem" The .anaanites were under the curse oftheir ancestor .anaan" Noah had cursed .anaan$ -am)s son" The meaning of .anaanitemay be (*ealot)$ a fanatic" .ananaean or canaanite are words for *ealot" The word comes

from the &ree ananaios" This is widely held to be related to -ebrew and Aramaic

ann"

Another im!ortant thing to remember is that countries in the time and language of the

Bible usually deri#e from the ancestor of the !eo!le of a region$ rather than a descri!tionof the region" Names often re#eal where the descendant of the original !rogenitor settled"

Names of !laces today sometimes refer all the way bac to the !erson mentioned in the

Bible 6see &enesis <C:" In the Bible Egy!t is often referred to as (the and of -am) or

(i*raim)$ for -am)s son and .anaan)s brother i*raim" any languages of NorthAfrica are considered (-amitic)" Some of the other names of -am)s descendants re#eal

where they settled and may be found e#en in modern names" ehabim is widely held to

be found in the modern nation of ibya" The ancient and modern city of Sidon assuredlycomes from Sidon$ .anaan)s son" i*raim)s son Pathrusim is belie#ed to be found in the

city of Pathros in Egy!t" The ancient -ittites are belie#ed to descend from -eth$

.anaan)s other son"



With an understanding of the names in the &enesis accounts$ one can go on and a!!ly

them to history"" The -ittites are somewhat of a mystery for historians" There is

continuing debate of their origin and debate among Bible scholars of how they fit withthe !eo!le of the Bible"

The -ittites are held to ha#e s!oen an Indo,Euro!ean language related to &ree$Scythian and &ermanic languages$ etc" But many Bible scholars claim the -ittites were

of .anaanite origin$ descended through -eth$ their su!!osed e!onymous ancestor" The

.anaanites s!oe a Semitic language" Some Bible scholars ha#e assumed that Shem)sdescendants always s!oe Semitic languages and Ha!heth)s descendants always s!oe

Indo,Euro!ean languages" This is !robably a mistaen theory" There could easily ha#e

been borrowing and e#en ado!tion between languages"

If the -ittites were originally .anaanites$ they may ha#e ado!ted an Indo,Euro!ean

language because they mo#ed into Asia inor$ which was !o!ulated by mostly Indo,

Euro!ean s!eaing !eo!le" &enerally$ Ha!heth)s descendants did indeed a!!ear to s!ea

mostly Indo,Euro!ean languages" In the ancient world$ Asia inor a!!ears to ha#e been !o!ulated by the descendants of Ha!heth$ &omer$ Tubal$ Togarmah$ eshech$ agog$

Ashena*$ etc" The .anaanites were destined to be dominated by other !eo!le" In Asiainor$ they would ha#e also been in the minority$ and may ha#e found it e/!edient to

ado!t the !re#ailing language"

The !eo!le mentioned in the #ery beginning of &enesis were li#ing in one !lace before

they dis!ersed" With Nimrod manind had uniformly desired to remain in one area and

de#elo! together" The confusion in language that e#entually scattered manind may ha#e

in#ol#ed dis!utes o#er the name of &od and the multi!licity of forms and meanings"E#eryone nows there are many names of gods mentioned in the Bible and e#en #ariants

on the name of the &od of the Bible itself"

A word that came to mean &od widely in the ancient Near East was el$ a word for the sun

and also a!!lied to the oa tree a symbol of strength" We saw that the word is in Babel

with the same meaning"El or al meant something lie (bright and shining one)$(illustrious one($ etc" The sun would clearly fit this descri!tion" This word came to be

identified with a di#inity and became a !rominent god for most Near Eastern cultures"

Both the Israelite and .anaanite languages had this word"

A related name is the name of the Babylonian god Bel" A!!arently a b was !refi/ed

!erha!s coming from the root ab for (father) gi#ing the name !erha!s the meaning of

(father of the sun)" The name came to ha#e the meaning (lord)" The lord Bel$ the sun$ washeld to be masculine for ob#ious reasons as the moon was often feminine for only

reflecting the sun" The .anaanite di#inity Baal a!!ears to be cognate to Bel"

Arabic Allah is related" The &ree god of the sun -elios most assuredly is a related word"

A mostly silent h was added to the word and modified" From this come English helium$

heliocentric$ etc" and !robably English hell$ with a modified meaning"



Interestingly$ -elios could #ery well be cognate with atin Hulius" Both words can be

shown to ha#e similar meanings and origin4 they both are striingly similar to the name

-elel$ which Isaiah ga#e to the ing of Babylon 6Is" <70<=:" This name is translateducifer with the meaning of (illustrious)$ (bright shining one)" ost e#eryone nows this

character)s name"

The name Hulius is familiar and eerily was a!!lied to another great world dictator" Hulius

is almost certainly related to the northern Euro!ean !agan figure of Dule or Hul" This

figure is associated with the sun and is in#ol#ed with the midwinter festi#al nowconnected to .hristmas" The original !agan festi#al celebrated the sun)s rebirth as it

began to rise higher and higher in the sy from its lowest !oint at that time of the year"

Another name often lined to the sun and #ery im!ortant to ancient !eo!le is lined to the&ree word theos" Theos is almost certainly lined to the &ree letter tau which was

written with a cross mar lie a Q as was the -ebrew letter ta# or taw in earlier times

before -ebrew scri!ts were altered" This may ha#e been an ancient sun or light symbol

re!resenting rays of light" The name is also related to the Phoenician letter taw" Ta# alsomeans 'sign' or (mar) as in cross mar in -ebrew" The name of the letter may also ha#e

been the name for the sun"

Theos sim!ly means (god)" It meant god in a generic sense but came to mean a !ersonal

god and the su!reme &od of the Bible in .hristian times" Oeus is %ust a !ossessi#e formof theos" So Oeus is the (god of gods)" It maes sense that there might be gods and that

they ha#e a god o#er them" This is the meaning of Oeus4 he was su!reme"

Theos is !robably related to the im!ortant early Egy!tian god and !ersona of Toth orThoth" The di#ine Egy!tian name of Ptah may also be a deri#ati#e as well as Tut" In the

Egy!tian language Tut means (image)" It)s interesting that .hrist is called an image

6.olossians <0<8:" A sun god worshi!!ed at early times in Israel was called ?odo" Thisname a!!ears lined to the Egy!tian god Thoth as Theos is also related to atin deus" The

name ?odo could easily be !ronounced and written as Toto because d and t are closely

interchangeable linguistically and ha#e often been used alternately in s!elling and !ronunciation" So the name is found sometimes with d and sometimes t"

The name ?a#id is belie#ed to be lined to this sun god ?odo" ?odo was a nown

Israelite !ersonal name$ #ariously s!elled$ 6Hdg" <C0<$ < .hronicles <<0<=$ =J4 =907$ =Samuel =;0@$ =7$ etc":" +ne meaning of the word or name dodo means (belo#ed) or

(lo#ing)" The name is also related to the -ebrew word for (mandrae)$ an a!hrodisiac$

hence an association with lo#e and amorousness" The name though$ is also !robablylined to the di#ine" A few times the !erson so named is lined to Bethlehem$ ?a#id)s

ancestral city$ so it is !lausible that the name ?odo may ha#e e#en been a name common

to the region and ?a#id)s family and that the name ?a#id itself was a form of the name"

The similarity of ?a#id and the related word di#ine is also striing" As well as 'belo#ed'$

the name ?a#id !robably means something lie (image of &od)$ (seeer of &od) or

(gatherer of &od)" It may also mean (smoe of god) or (cloud of god)" The final d is



actually !ronounced th in -ebrew" The initial d should most liely be a t for the -ebrew

letter ta# or taw and not d for the -ebrew letter daleth$ according to the origin of the

name" So the correct s!elling in English may be something more lie Ta#ith$ not ?a#id" Itis interesting to note that ta#$ taw and tau were always written Q in ancient scri!ts and

ing ?a#id is the ancestor of .hrist whose symbol is always Q" This may also ha#e been

an ancient symbol for light or image$ re!resenting rays of light" The name of the lettermay ha#e often been used as a word for the sun"<

There are many forms of these names lined to gods" There are many roots lie dio$ theo$tiw$ deo$ dis$ teo$ tue$ di#$ de#ah$ te#$ etc" which are lined to im!ortant gods" From these

we ha#e deri#ed words lie deity$ di#inity$ de#il$ etc" There are names for the &od of the

Bible in many languages lie French ?ieu$ S!anish ?ios$ etc" There are many names of

gods which are related" The &ermanic religions had Teu or Tiw from which we getTuesday in English" Another form of the name was Tei#a" The similarity with ta# and

?a#id is striing" The name Tei#a has been found on ancient artifacts" An im!ortant and

related god of the .elts was Teutates or Toutates" The omans had a god nown as

?is!ater which meant (father god)" The name ?e#ah and ?e#i for gods is found in theSansrit language as far afield as India"

The &ree letter tau is undoubtedly related to the -ebrew letter ta# and was related to the

di#ine and thus had s!ecial significance" The &ree word taumat meant (miracle) or

(wor of wonder)" It is literally (gift of god)$ mat means 'gift'" -ebrew for gift is mattan"Thus the !ro!er name atthew is also (gift of god)" It)s %ust the two com!onent words in

taumat in re#erse order" From this was deri#ed the word taumaturgy$ 'magic' or

'wonderworing'"

We)#e seen how im!ortant the hea#enly bodies were for the ancients" From this are

!robably related words lie day$ dawn$ da**le$ etc" The name of the Philistine god ?agon

may ha#e a related etymology" Hudging by how far these root words ranged$ this was anim!ortant symbol and word and may reflect the ob#ious im!ortance of the sun" And the

symbol was a!!lied to &od"

The related root word a!!ears to be #ery im!ortant" It is found far and wide in many #ery

different cultures" This indicates that the word is #ery old and basic" It may ha#e been the

name for &od originally and then corru!ted as it was a!!lied to the sun" It may ha#e been

a sign of good fortune$ !rotection and blessing" It may ha#e been the #ery (mar) that&od ga#e .ain" It came to be sometimes associated with the sun$ as were many names for

gods"

The word seems also to be associated with war" At times$ the &ermanic god Tiw was a

god of war" &ods were often associated with war" They determined the outcomes of war$

which was one way they controlled the fates of nations" War brought death$ which thenwas !robably lined to the name" The names of gods lie Thoth$ ?ad and ?odo are

striingly similar also to death and dead in English" Indeed$ gods were masters of both

life and death and the i#ing and the dead" I also notice that King ?a#id was a leader of

armies$ a warrior" &od called him a (man of blood)" -e was a bringer of death"



A !ossibly related name is -adad$ (the thunderer) and su!reme god of the .anaanites"

-adad was also an im!ortant deity for other ancient !eo!le of the iddle East" TheAadian god Adad is related" -adad is belie#ed to be two words" -a was a common

definite article lie English the" ?ad may be related to the sun di#inity with #arious forms

lie ?odo$ Toto$ Thoth$ etc"$ described earlier" The h modified a name or word gi#ing anadded meaning of s!ecificity$ holiness$ !ower or the sublime" - or he is !ronounced with

a breath and is thus associated with (s!irit) or (wind)" In lie manner Abram)s name was

changed to Abraham and Sarai)s name was changed to Sarah"

The names Adoni%ah and Adonai are found a few times in the Bible" These names are

undoubtedly lined to the &ree form Adonis" Adonis im!lies (godlie) in &ree" The

name in both -ebrew and &ree are most liely lined to the root dan or don" These rootsha#e the meaning (%udge) or (lord)$ a lord often acting as a %udge" The root can be seen in

the name of the &ree god Poseidon and e#en in English don$ as in uni#ersity don or

mafia don" E#en the name of the Norse god +din might be related"

Another common name for an ancient di#inity in eso!otamia was &ad" The -ebrew

name &ad comes from this$ as certainly does our English word for &od" I)#e mentionedthe meanings of this word earlier but I)ll re!eat it" The first meaning of the word was

!robably (host)$ as in (the host of hea#en)$ stars in other words" This meant also (troo!)$

(multitude)$ (army)$ or (grou!)$ as in a large number of something" After the sun$ starswere !robably among the first things worshi!!ed$ after men fell into idolatry" The name

&ad then came to stand for a !ersonal di#inity itself" Since a di#inity was belie#ed to

bring good fortune$ the name &ad also came to mean (good fortune) or %ust (good)$ then

(god)"

Then some audacious men most liely called themsel#es what they called a di#inity" A

.hristian would say they got confused between &od and themsel#es" When &od !romised Abraham that his descendants would be as countless (as the stars in multitude)$

was he mocing those men who !resumed to tae u!on themsel#es the name of &ad5

Another im!ortant name in the ancient world was Ea" This was a Babylonian deity and

came to be associated with the earth and is found in the #ery word itself" Ea is

!ronounced more lie ya in English$ and de#elo!ed into se#eral forms lie %a$ %u$ %e$ ia$

ye$ etc" The name was transformed into a word for 'lord' as in the -ebrew language" InIsrael it became one of the di#ine names"

Traces of this root word can be seen in many words" The word or name usually means(lord) and often in#ol#es high ran and !osition or di#ine attributes lie goodness and

ma%esty" There are English earl$ %udge$ %ustice$ earth$ etc" In &ree there are eulogy$

eu!horia$ eu!hony$ etc" The name of the oman god Hu!iter is two roots$ %u for 'god' and !iter for 'father'" Ho#e$ another name for Hu!iter a!!ears e#en to be #ery similar to the

-ebrew name Heho#ah" Heho#ah is belie#ed by some to be an incorrect translation of the

name Dahweh$ but the re#erse might be true" The name Ho#e itself may ha#e been created

in the .hristian era and not !ro#e any earlier lins between atin and -ebrew" The



-ebrew name Hob may be something lie Ho#e" The similarity is more e/act when

considering the common transformation from b to # and #ice #ersa"

Then there is the moon" The -ebrew word for moon is yereach and also odesh" It may

be that the former is a northern term of Israel and the latter is from Hudah" Dereach is #ery

similar to a common word for moon of the ancient Near East" It is also similar to anotherword for (terror)$ (fright)$ with a connotation of re#erence" In this region$ a word with the

same consonants yrh and in the same order meant 'moon' in many cultures" The word has

been connected to the ancient cities of Hericho and Herusalem$ belie#ed to originally becenters of moon worshi!" It also may be connected to yara$ (to throw down)$ 'descend'

and (foundation)$ as in (throw down the foundations)" It could be that the moon was seen

as something thrown as it a!!eared to be in flight" The initial y in yereah may ha#e meant

(lord) as the moon was !robably concei#ed of as the lord of the night or something liethat"<

-ebrew for 'month' and also 'calendar' is yerah" It)s not hard to imagine that English year

is related" A year is made u! of months and recorded on a calendar" Somehow themeaning may ha#e shifted from the moon and month to something made u! of months or

something that embodies months"

The .haldean name Nebo or Nabu also came to be a!!lied to the moon" It was also

sometimes a!!lied to the !lanet ercury" The meaning of the name is dis!uted" +ne of itsearlier meanings was !robably (son)" It a!!ears at first to ha#e meant son in the sim!lest

sense and related to -ebrew ben and Arabic bin or ibn$ of the same meaning" The -ebrew

word ben is related to -ebrew eben which means (stone)" The connection is in the sense

of building$ which often in#ol#es stone with sons as (building) the family lineage" Theconnection is clearly seen in the related word banah$ (to build)" (.hi! off the old bloc)

might e#en a!!ly here" It a!!ears that a !rocess of metathesis then changed the order of b

and n in ben to get neb and thus nebo" Then the meaning shifted further" The name ofword may also ha#e found its way into English words lie na#el and nati#e ha#ing to do

with birth and hence 'sonshi!'"

The .haldeans a!!ear to then ha#e added a new meaning to son" Son of whom5 ost

scholars agree that the !ro!er name Nebo meant (the son of ardu)$ also called Bel or

(the son of the lord 6Bel:)" The moon was naturally the son of Bel 6the sun:" The moon is

called the lesser light 6&en" <0<J:" The moon gets its light from the sun and reflects thesun lie a son gets his life from his father and reflects his father"

But in time the word may ha#e changed meaning again as it s!read across nations andcultures" The Bible states that the moon would (go#ern the night) 6&enesis <0<J:" The

name of the oman god Ne!tune is !ossibly deri#ed from the name" Ne!tune was

associated with the sea" -ow could the meaning ha#e changed from moon and night tosea5 It may ha#e been that men e#entually came to understand the influence of the moon

on the sea" The moon is nown to cause or influence tides" English 'nea! tide' 6low tide:

may be so deri#ed" It may also be that as associated with the night$ the moon was

considered fa#orable for sailors$ as na#igation was best at night when the stars were out



and the moon didn)t bloc out the stars$ as did the sun" Words lie na#y$ na#igate$ etc"

may #ery well be deri#ed from the root nebo" emember b and # are often closely

associated consonants$ as in the -ebrew language"

A !rominent symbol in ancient cultures was the crescent" This has been clearly shown to

be, almost ob#iously, a symbol for the moon and for many associated di#inities" +ne ofthe amulets of di#nities lie Ishtar and Astarte 6Asherah: was a crescent" The Bible 6Hdg"

0=J: is !robably referring to this 6de!ending on the translation:" The moon is usually

considered either as a son or a feminine figure in ancient religions and there are #ariousnames from #arious cultures for goddesses of the moon lie -ecate$ Nanna$ Sin$ ina$

ona$ etc" English moon has been shown to !robably deri#e from ona"

ina or ona was im!ortant to Assyrians and came to be euated with destiny"Somehow these goddesses were then associated with money$ mining$ minting$ etc" There

was a oman goddess of the mint that later became euated with the goddess Huno" The

oman goddess iner#a could !robably be shown to be somehow tied to ina" The god

ammon referred to by Hesus was some di#inity associated with money" ona andmoney can be discerned in the last three letters of the name ammon" ina e#en came to

be the name of a common coin in the ancient Near East" The name of the Egy!tian godAmun may be related"

Is it !erha!s that the shiny moon$ es!ecially when full$ loos lie a shiny sil#er coin5 +rthat shiny sil#er may ha#e been thought to be of the same substance as the moon5 Also$

the goddess ina may ha#e been euated with destiny and money both because money

was !robably considered closely associated with the outcome of one)s life, a connection

Hesus was fer#ently trying to get out of manind)s attitude"

Perha!s destiny$ night$ the seas and money may ha#e been euated with the moon

because much wealth could be gained by sea trade$ which often needed the night" oneycould also be made in secret at night through crime" E#en the name Ne!hilim$ for the

mysterious giant men of renown found early in the Boo of &enesis may ha#e a lin to

Nebo and the moon god" Ne!hilim has been lined by scholars to the -ebrew word for(fallen ones) and also (tyrant)" But the Ne!hilim were not fallen$ it was the angels who

sired them who were fallen" This could well mean (sons of the fallen)$ the initial n

meaning (offs!ring)" There is also the -ebrew word na!h or ne!h meaning (adultery)"

The origin of the Ne!hilim was surely considered illegitimate and adulterous and thismay offer another clue to the meaning of the name"

The name may ha#e more than one meaning$ which is often the case" The Ne!hilim mayha#e been sailors or worshi!!ers of the moon and the night" They may ha#e been the first

to fashion the crescent as a symbol for their god" The Bible doesn)t say" The crescent

could #ery well ha#e been !assed to the .anaanites$ idianites$ Ishmaelites andEdomites from the Ne!hilim4 these !eo!le all li#ed nearby each other in .anaan"

The names ina$ ona$ etc" ha#e e#en another !ossible a!!lication" There are many

names of gods and other words that include some #ariation of the suffi/ mn" It modified



the word or name$ gi#ing it a dee!er and more !owerful meaning" I mentioned ammon

abo#e" Another e/am!le is the name of the Assyrian god immon" The root word mn was

im!ortant" As I showed$ mn may ha#e meant 'destiny'$ as did the in#ersion nm" This was !erha!s in the sense of (numbering) as in (her days are numbered)" It also meant (weight)

or (#alue) and then came to mean (name)" Through in#erting by metathesis$ English name

and number are !ossibly related"

The acce!ted meaning of Abram is something lie (e/alted father)" This is clearly from

ab$ (father) and ram$ (e/alted)" am may get its meaning from ar or r$ (mountain) inSemitic languages" The m may modify mountain$ multi!lying the force of the word$

changing the meaning to (e/ceedingly high)"

The name Nimrod may ha#e a similar deri#ation" The name is obscure" The Bible 6&en"<C0@: indicates the meaning of the name" Nimrod may be a form of the com!ound name

-adad,immon$ the name of a god found in ancient records" It contains many of the

same letters as Nimrod and could #ery well mean similar things" It seems to include

elements of many of the names discussed already" But it includes them in a !u**lingorder and seems to cram them together in an odd way" But using the conce!t of

metathesis$ the words and meanings can be !iced out from the name Nimrod"

First$ the definite article ha could easily be dro!!ed" The name includes od$ which could

be the same as ad for (gatherer)$ (hunter) (taer) or (en#elo!er)" Ne/t$ it has rm$ whichcould mean (e/alted) or (mighty)" It also has nm or mn$ either of which means

(e/ceeding)" They also could mean (multitude)" Nimrod was a hunter" A hunter of what5

A a hunter of (multitudes)$ as in !eo!le$ !eo!le to dominate" A similar name in many

ways is -adad,immon"

The meaning of the name Nebuchadne**ar is not clear" There ha#e been many arguable

translations" The name most liely means (moon stars mars)" According to this name$ theing was held to be under 6or o#er: the influence of the moon$ the stars and the !lanet

ars" The name &ad$ 'stars or hea#enly host'$ is seen as (chad) in the name" Nebu is the

moon" Ne**ar or e**ar 6a*ur: meant the !lanet ars or (son of mars)" Ne**ar might alsoha#e meant )!rince)$ from the Semitic nasi" So Nebuchadne**ar is uite an audacious

name" The ing and his !eo!le held himself to be eual to or greater than the moon$ the

starry host$ and the !lanet ars"

Another #ery im!ortant name was olech$ a god of the Ammonites and others" The name

olech is found many times in the Bible and in many forms lie ilcom$ alcam$ etc"

olech certainly means (ing)" iddle Eastern names with !refi/es and suffi/es lieele$ elchi$ ale$ etc" all mean (ing)" Amale means ing with the !refi/ a as a

modifier$ signifying something lie (the) as in (the ing)"

Peo!le in ancient times !robably confused !lanets with stars$ although they surely

became uicly aware that !lanets were more mobile and #aried in their circuits" This

may ha#e made !lanets more im!ortant and may be why many of the names of gods

became associated with !lanets and not stars" The name of the god Asshur may ha#e



originally been used for the !lanet ars but the meaning may ha#e come to mean any

shining body in the night sy$ other than the moon" It)s easy to see how a star or !lanet

was associated with (shining fire)" It seems natural to assume ancient !eo!le associatedhea#enly bodies with fire" Worshi!!ers may often ha#e burned sacrifices at night to the

stars" They surely would ha#e !ercei#ed that the stars were (on fire) and may ha#e also

thought that the stars themsel#es were burnt offerings of some sort" They might e#enha#e gotten the first fire from meteors or asteroids from the hea#ens$ thining them fallen

stars"

It)s easy to see how meanings shifted and were redirected and became confused" Bel and

Baal were a!!lied to the sun but came to mean (lord)" Pul$ Pal$ Pil$ etc" are belie#ed to be

other related forms$ found es!ecially in Assyrian dialects" They were added as titles for

whate#er god was most im!ortant" So there was a Bel,ardu$ Baal,&ad$ Baal,-adad$Pil,Eser$ Pul,Asser$ etc" Ar meant mountain but came to mean (lofty)$ then (e/alted)"

Then it was associated with thunder and then !erha!s e#en the sun" Time$ culture and

geogra!hy altered and shifted the meaning and im!ortance of words"

.hanges in a!!lication and meanings can also be seen in the femini*ation of a deity"

Adding a t somewhere in a word made it feminine" Also adding ah or eth at the end of aname or word femini*ed it" It)s interesting that eth means (time) in -ebrew" Time is

clearly lined to the hea#enly bodies" This can be seen in the name of Astarte$ a main

goddess of the .anaanites" This is a deity of lo#e and fertility nown in the Bible asAshtoreth$ the (abomination of the Sidonians)" With her the association to !ros!erity was

shifted to the conce!t of related fertility" The name of this goddess is clearly lined to

masculine Asshur$ and to cognate names of similar goddesses such as Ishtar and

Asherah"<

Astarte has been lined to goddesses lie A!hrodite and Lenus" They became associated

with the !lanet Lenus" But as with other gods and goddesses$ Astarte surely becamelined to other !lanets and stars or e#en the moon as her cult mo#ed across cultures"

&oddesses Ishtar of Babylon$ Isis of Egy!t$ Asherah of .anaan$ Aster and Easter of

!rimiti#e Euro!e all had the same deri#ation" The name Esther is a form of the Persianname Stara$ which means (star)" This is !robably a Persian form for Astarte" Some ha#e

argued Esther is a form of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar" All of these forms refer to a star

or hea#enly body" English star is most certainly connected"

A name often went through many changes of meaning as it s!read through time and

location" In some languages$ the name Astarte$ lie Asshur$ may ha#e come to mean any

hea#enly body of the night besides the moon" This may be the origin of the &ree wordaster$ for star$ from which came English astronomy$ astrology$ disaster$ etc" E#en English

star is !robably directly from aster" +ne can almost clearly see the word star in aster

without any hel!" All of the consonants of aster are the same as in star$ and in the sameorder"

Then there is the !lanet Saturn" +ne can also see star in it if the #owels are taen out$

although there is the added n" And in the same order as well" &erman for star is stern4 it



fits com!letely when only consonants are considered" There was another change in

meaning" This same basic root word was shifted to the !lanet Saturn and changed bac to

masculine$ as Saturn was a masculine figure"

Saturn may be deri#ed from Set$ the Egy!tian god of night$ deserts$ etc"$ and ur$ (shining)

6similar to Asshur:" Set might be related to -ebrew sheth for (tumult)$ (desolation) aswell as (hastiness) 6as leading to catastro!he:" -ebrew sheth might !ossibly be related

somehow to .haldean shith$ (si/th) a bad number in Bible symbology" Saturn is

interestingly the si/th !lanet in the solar system" Si/ is commonly associated with e#il"Si/ is he/ in &ree" +ne can then easily see how some are of the #iew that the word

Satan is deri#ed from this word as well" &od)s !eo!le would hold Saturn$ as well as

related satyr$ as demonic and ob%ectionable figures to be a#oided"

The meaning of the name +g in the Bible is interesting and re#ealing" This was the name

or title of the ing of Bashan$ defeated by Hoshua" +ne meaning of the -ebrew word og$

is (something round)" The name of the ing may ha#e been a title and might ha#e meant

something lie (crown)$ (ring) or e#en (eye)" The word for something round may ha#ea!!lied to these$ which are all round" If eye was meant$ then this might ha#e im!lied

someone with #ision or insight" It might ha#e had se#eral meanings" The ing with thistitle may ha#e been a man with great #ision 6literally and figurati#ely: and also had an

im!ressi#e crown andGor ring"

The word og may be cognate with atin oc as in words lie oculus$ ocular$ etc" &erman

for eye is auge" In English$ to augur something is to (see) into the future" It was long

belie#ed before modern science that the eye was able to see by emitting light and

illuminating the world" Augerite is a shiny mineral$ from &ree auger$ (shining)" So toa!!ly the word for eye as a title could easily ha#e meant more than one thing4 it meant

both #ision and light" This hel!s e/!lain how the eye was highly #enerated in things such

as the (eye of -orus)" The atin word august and the title Augustus could #ery well ha#e been deri#ed along these lines" The word occult is commonly defined as (something

hidden) or (secret)" But it may also mean (eye worshi!)$ coming from the atin for eye

and cultus 6worshi!:"

The sun has undoubtedly been concei#ed of as a great (eye in the sy)" It was then not

difficult to thin of eyes as emitting light as the sun does" An ecli!se of the sun might

ha#e e#en reinforced the idea of the sun as an eye" An ecli!se of the sun by the moonwould ha#e a!!eared lie an eye$ with the moon as the !u!il" This would ha#e gi#en

added im!ort to something that was already s!ecial" It)s interesting to note that when the

moon !asses o#er the sun in an ecli!se it occludes or blocs it" The word occlude isrelated to the word occult according to e/!erts$ but the standard e/!lanation for the

relationshi! is a bit cloudy and e#en misleading"

The name &oliath may ha#e been a title or a!!ellation gi#en to the giant warrior slain by

King ?a#id" The name &oliath may be related to -ebrew gol or gal for something that

rolls or is circular" The name of the region of &alilee$ for e/am!le has been traced and

connected to the meaning of (circuit)" This may ha#e been a!!lied in light of the fact that



this region had a circuit of defensible cities or something lie that" This word has been

a!!lied to sulls in the sense that they roll" So the title &oliath may ha#e been gi#en to

the warrior in the sense that he was renowned for maing the heads of his enemies roll 6inmany ways no doubt:" It)s ironic then that ultimately it was his head that was remo#ed by

?a#id"

Who is &og5 I)m sure this is one of the to! uestions for %ust about e#ery .hristian$ Hew

and !erha!s uslim and any student of the Bible" This a!ocaly!tic figure has haunted

.hristian minds e#er since Hohn the e#elator !ut the name down on !a!er" Itundoubtedly haunted Hewish souls as well from the writings of E*eiel" This uestion is

im!ortant because &og is widely associated with a great battle in Israel and the end of the

!resent age"

Is &og an actual !erson or !eo!le5 What does the name mean5 Finding out the meaning

of &og is a bit difficult" And the conte/t where the name is found adds to the confusion"

Furthermore$ I belie#e misinter!retations$ errors of translation and reading of scri!ts ha#e

made the meaning of &og that much more of a mystery"

&og is most notably found !aired or associated with agog" The two names may ha#esimilar meanings and a!!ear to in#ol#e the same root word" We now agog was the

name of one of Ha!heth)s sons 6&enesis <C0=:" In some bible #ersions 6NASL$ etc":$

E*eiel states &og to be of the land of agog 6E*e" ;0=:" +ther #ersions seem to meanthat &og is the land of agog itself" In the same #erse$ &og is either the !rince of osh

or the chief !rince of eshech and Tubal" eshech and Tubal were also sons of Ha!heth

mentioned with agog"

osh has been considered the nation or !eo!le of ussia" This is most liely an error of

unso!histicated study" The word osh only sounds lie ussia$ but the two words ha#e

been shown to be unrelated" The -ebrew word rosh means (head)$ (chief) or (to!)" TheHewish festi#al of osh -ashanah means (head of the year) as in the beginning of the

year" -ashanah means year" Some Bible translations then a!!ear to ha#e left the word

rosh without being translated from the -ebrew and it %ust means (head) or (chief)" So the#ersions that read that &og is the chief !rince of eshech and Tubal are most !robably

correct"

.onsidering &og to be the chief !rince of eshech and Tubal$ we then might as whoeshech and Tubal are" Euating the !eo!le and location referred to by E*eiel 6E*e"

;0=: with ussia$ is !robably correct" But it is a mere coincidence with the con%ectures

based on the word osh" osh is !robably not ussia" But eshech is" And Tubal is a !eo!le !robably of Anatolia or the Asiatic !art of ussia" I showed before good e#idence

that eshech is euated with the ussian !eo!le" And agog I showed to be !robably

related to agyar and ongol$ also !eo!le from the Asiatic lands now in ussia"

Is &og an actual !erson5 &og is !robably a title$ not a !erson or at least not a human

!erson" any scholars ha#e claimed this" ?e!ending on how the Bible is inter!reted$ &og

a!!ears at a battle at the end of the age" Some ha#e lined &og to the battle of



!ronunciation4 there)s little difference" I showed before that the -ebrew letter a or ale!h

is often silent" Also$ initial #owels before a root word often indicate %ust a modifier4 and

there is often disagreement in scholarly circles about the modifiers" It)s the consonantsthat are more reliable and re#ealing"

The word or name Agag is found se#eral times in the Bible 6Num =709:" -ere$ it is !art of Balaam)s !ro!hecy concerning Israel" The name Agag here seems to refer to the title of a

ing" The name is !robably referring to the Amaleites$ one of the main enemies of Israel

and referred to in the same discourse" Indeed the name a!!ears again with a ing of theAmaleites 6< Samuel <8:" Agag may be the title of this ing and not his name" This

cha!ter of the Boo of Samuel indicates Agag was a ruthless and merciless iller"

Who were the Amaleites5 ?escendants of Esau$ a bitter and im!lacable enemy of Israel6;J0<=$ <J:" The Amaleites were %ust a branch of the Edomites 6Esau:" Both are fore#er

bent on the total destruction of Israel" Another !erson associated with Agag was -aman"

-aman was nown as an Agagite 6Esther ;0<$ <C4 0;$ 8 and @0=7:" The Bible doesn)t gi#e

any clear indication that Agagite necessarily means a descendant of Agag or theAmaleites$ but that is !robably the case" -aman hated the Hews and wanted to destroy

them on a massi#e genocidal scale" -e was of the same s!irit as Agag$ whom Samuel cutto !ieces$ and the Amaleites" This is !robably the same s!irit of &og of the last days and

may #ery well be an actual s!irit hateful to Israel" It)s interesting to note that -aman)s

name is !ossibly lined to &og 6E*eiel ;@0<<:"

It is #ery liely that the Amaleites became later nown as the Turs among other things$

or blended in with them" The ancestor Amale was the grandson of a -ittite 6&en";J0=$

<=:" I)#e mentioned that much of the -ittite em!ire was located in much of what is nowTurey" The Turs ha#e been nown to be #ery ruthless as were the Amaleites" &od

swore that he would wi!e out the memory of them 6?t" =80<9,<@:" This may be why they

are only referred to from then on by the title &og and not their national name"

There are a few interesting twists on the name and word gog" I noted before that the

Phoenician mar for b was written lie English g" This has led to faulty translations anderrors in transcri!tions" So a word lie gog might be #ariously altered to roots lie bob$

gob and bog" Is goblin descended from such ancient lineage5 Notice how if you change

the g bac to b in goblin you get boblin$ which doesn)t loo all that different from

Babylon"

The Se!tuagint #ersion of the Bible has the word bougaios for Agagite$ which basically

could mean &og$ in Esther 6Est" ;0<:" Scholars aren)t sure about this translation" So bougaios could #ery well be an erroneous transcri!tion meant to be written as gougaios$

not bougaios" This would mae the use of this word something lie &og$ which would

then be closer to Agagite" But note that bougaios a!!ears somewhat lie bogey$ as in bogeyman$ that timeless character who haunts the night of our fears and nightmares" Hust

an interesting obser#ation"



The #nd from the Beginning

nderstanding names in the Bible$ understanding customs$ understanding the nature of

&od and the meanings he has !laced in his creation go a long way in hel!ing those whostudy the Bible earnestly in understanding what it tells us is going to ha!!en in the future"

nderstanding the +ld Testament ordinances$ history and !ro!hecies also hel!s to

understand the !ro!hecies in the New Testament$ namely$ the Boo of e#elation" Butdetermining what !ro!hecies ha#e been fulfilled and what ha#e yet to be fulfilled

com!ounds the !roblem of not nowing %ust what the !ro!hecies refer to at all in the first

!lace"

any ha#e warned that when reading the Bible$ it is im!ortant to discern when the

!assages refer to !ure symbolism and when they refer to reality and a cross between

symbolism and reality" I belie#e that the Bible is multi,dimensional$ lie &od$ and that

the meanings he has !laced in his scri!tures and in reality are multi,dimensional" enha#e a !roblem in inter!reting the Bible because we are usually cut off from anything

more than two or three dimensions" But I am certain that !assages in the Bible oftenmean more than one thing"

A good e/am!le of this is the beast with ten horns described by the !ro!het ?aniel6?aniel 909:" ?aniel wrote that this beast came from the sea in #erse ; of the same

cha!ter" I)m sure there is little doubt that this beast in ?aniel is one and the same beast

described in e#elation 6e#" <;0< and <90;:" e#elation adds se#en heads to the

descri!tion of the beast" ost would surely assume that this beast is not a real seacreature of the natural world that will arise out of the sea" This beast is definitely

symbolic" But what it symboli*es is #ery real" What does it symboli*e5

-ere is where understanding &od)s symbolism throughout his word is #ery hel!ful"

&od)s symbolism$ according to his faithfulness$ is surely consistent throughout" In his

word$ animals as symbols can be found to always re!resent !olitical institutions lieem!ires and ingdoms" So the beast is some !olitical entity" The Bible e#en states itself$

clearly$ many times$ when an animal refers to some ingdom as in the Boo of ?aniel"

Women in the Bible are often used as symbolism" And they always symboli*e religion$

sometimes true but usually a!ostate or corru!t" any !ro!hecies !ortray wayward harlot

women with no loyalty or lo#e" It always has to do with religion" There is little doubt that

the harlot in the Boo of e#elation is a corru!t church" We read of a real He*ebel and her name being used undoubtedly as symbol 6e#" =0=C:" It)s a #i#id and effecti#e !ortrayal"

The -ebrew word for daughter$ bath$ is undoubtedly related to the word beth$ for (house)and (tem!le)" This e#en further connects religion to a feminine uality" The -ebrew word

for stor is asiydah$ which is clearly also connected to religion" ost e#eryone has

heard of the stor)s !ro#erbial connection to babies$ and the word in -ebrew connects the bird to indness and naturally to a maternal nature" The use of the wings of the stor in



history to now if a !ro!hecy has come to !ass" An additional !roblem is that a !ro!hecy

might come to !ass more than once$ that is$ it in#ol#es something that is recurring" Also$

a !ro!hecy might a!!ear to ha#e come to !ass$ because some e#ent loos similar to whatis foretold$ but hasn)t actually been fulfilled" Scholars ha#e noted that there are ty!es and

shadows which a!!ear lie e#ents and e#en !eo!le that ha#e yet to be made nown" King

?a#id was a ty!e of .hrist$ etc"

any of the e#ents in the life and times of .hrist were foretold in the Bible" This is

undis!uted by scholars" The Bible itself taes !ains to mae this clear" But looing atwhat .hrist fulfilled and what he left to be fulfilled in the future may gi#e insights into

the future"

The feasts and festi#als of Israel may gi#e a clue to what is yet to come" The Bibleindicates directly$ and sometimes not so directly$ that .hrist fulfilled many ordinances

and functions once and for all 6-ebrews <C0<=:" In fact$ it has been said that by his life on

earth$ .hrist fulfilled not only all ten commandments of &od$ but all the e#itical laws

and ordinances of oses as well" This seems certainly to be so for at least the se#en mainfesti#als and feasts$ and almost certainly for all$ indeed"

By his death$ .hrist fulfilled the Passo#er$ Feast of nlea#ened Bread and the festi#al of

Firstfruits" There were four ma%or feastsGfesti#als left unfulfilled at his death" If the

!attern is followed$ one is ama*ingly left to conclude with a lot of certainty that thesefeastsGfesti#als will be fulfilled" And nowing the essence of each festi#al may gi#e a clue

as to how .hrist will fulfill them"

-e was the (Passo#er amb) 6(Paschal amb): without blemish" None of the bones of thePasso#er lamb were to be broen 6E/ <=07J4 Num" @0<<,<=:" This was fulfilled by .hrist

as the a!ostle Hohn described 6Hohn <@0;;:"

-e was also the nlea#ened Bread" .hrist often referred to himself as the (bread of life) 6

Hohn J0;;$ ;8:" When he instituted the -oly .ommunion at the last su!!er$ he was eating

the Passo#er and most liely also nlea#ened Bread" -e then also euated his broen body to the broen unlea#ened bread 6 ue ==0<@$ ar <70==$ < .or" <<0=;,=7:" I might

e#en go further to add that the herbs and s!ices that the women were attem!ting to !ut on

.hrist)s dead body$ were a form of the (bitter herbs) reuired for the Feast of nlea#ened

Bread$ although the women ne#er got to !ut them on the body"

Hesus was also the Firstfruits" This is the festi#al in#ol#ing the barley har#est" A barley

sheaf was wa#ed before the ord on the first day of the wee after Passo#er" .hristhimself was the (firstfruits) from the dead" -e fulfilled Firstfriuts by his resurrection on

the day of Firstfruits or Sunday" -e fulfilled the first three holy days of the year during

the wee of his crucifi/ion" But there is some discre!ancy on %ust when Firstfruits$Passo#er and nlea#ened Bread were obser#ed at the time of .hrist" There were #arying

traditions of the Pharisees$ Saducees and of minority sects in Israel" The ?ead Sea Scrolls

are said to gi#e a striingly different !rescri!tion than that of the Pharisees" There are

discre!ancies of the demarcations of a day from sunset to sunset or from sunrise to



sunrise" There were differences in the use of the word (Sabbath)" The first day of

nlea#ened Bread was a day of no labor$ similar to$ but not called a Sabbath in the Bible$

but a (holy con#ocation) 6e#iticus =;0J,9:" -owe#er$ the Pharisees and a!!arently thema%ority of Hews in Hesus) time called the day of nlea#ened Bread a (Sabbath) in the

Bible" Its beginning was obser#ed at slightly different times$ according to the definition

of what the start of a day was$ whether sunset or sunrise"

These differences ha#e led to confusion about the e#ents during the wee of the

crucifi/ion" They ha#e also shrouded what is !robably a (co#er,u!) designed to #eil theconnection of .hrist)s life$ !ur!ose$ ministry and death with the festi#als of Israel

established by oses"

The church has long taught that .hrist was crucified on a Friday and rose from the deadon a Sunday" But Hesus foretold that he would be in the (heart of the earth) for a total of

three days and three nights 6atthew <=0;@,7C:" If this is taen literally$ then Hesus could

not ha#e been crucified on a Friday and resurrected on a Sunday" The only certain

reference to the time of the resurrection is that it ha!!ened early and before sunrise on the(first day of the wee) 6Hohn =C0<$ etc":" The ey word is before" It !robably ha!!ened

late the se#enth day" This is why the differing traditions on the demarcating of days andof obser#ances are im!ortant"

Hesus was !robably crucified on Passo#erGnlea#ened Bread" This maes sense$ as hewas the embodiment of both" It seems liely that this day was on Wednesday$ not Friday

and more so because it !ro#ides time for Hesus to ha#e been in the gra#e for three full

days and three full nights and to rise from the dead by early Sunday morning" The ast

Su!!er then would ha#e been on a Tuesday"

+ne might find it tri#ial to attem!t to !in!oint e/actly the e#ents of the crucifi/ion$ but

u!on closer ins!ection$ one might see a dar !ur!ose in obfuscating the details" Theoman church has long argued that the day of worshi! was changed from Saturday$ the

weely Sabbath$ to Sunday because Hesus is belie#ed to ha#e risen from the dead on

Sunday" But if one holds that Sunday$ the (first day of the wee) didn)t begin untilsunrise$ then .hrist clearly rose from the dead on the Sabbath$ before dawn 6stated by the

a!ostle Hohn:$ not Sunday"

any ha#e argued that the real reason the omans changed the day of worshi! from theSabbath to Sunday was because many su!!osedly .hristian bisho!s were really !agan

sun worshi!!ers who really wanted to destroy .hristianity" They named the first day of

the wee for the sun$ their chief (god)" Furthermore$ they !rofaned the Sabbath bychanging its name to that of Saturn$ another !owerful oman deity" As stated earlier$ the

name Saturn has been lined etymologically to Satan> It)s not difficult to then conclude

that enemies of .hristianity wished to weaen the church by getting it confused abouttiming" This would ha#e its greatest effects in ee!ing .hristians in the dar$ es!ecially

about future e#ents"



This change may ha#e had another im!ortant re!ercussion" By getting .hristians to forget

the Sabbath could turn them against &od and in#ite his wrath u!on them" Kee!ing the

Sabbath is one of the Ten .ommandments" While many .hristians don)t see theim!ortance of ee!ing the Sabbath$ arguing for grace$ Saint Paul disagrees in

6omans 5:"

Not understanding how the crucifi/ion unfolded lea#es many in the dar about how

.hrist fulfilled the festi#als" ore im!ortant$ it could #ery well ee! many in the dar

about how .hrist has or will fulfill the other festi#als"

The ne/t main festi#al in the year is Pentecost or the Feast of Wees" This has said to

ha#e been fulfilled by the gi#ing of the -oly S!irit on Pentecost$ se#en wees after

.hrist)s death" A feature of the Feast of Wees is that it in#ol#es the har#est of summerwheat and the wa#ing of lea#ened bread" ea#en is symbolic of sin" The church was born

on the Feast of Wees or Pentecost" Interestingly$ Israel met &od at ount Sinai on the

first Feast of Wees after the E/odus"

Three main festi#als of the Hewish year seem to ha#e yet to be fulfilled" These are

Trum!ets$ ?ay of Atonement and Tabernacles" At Trum!ets$ a trum!et 6shofar: is blownat the sighting of the new moon" This festi#al announces the new year 6ci#il new year$

according to the -ebrew calendar that e/isted before the changes of oses and the

E/odus:" Trum!ets is a two,day affair because no one nows e/actly which day or hourwhen the new moon will be sighted" This may be what .hrist was referring when he said

(no one nows the day or the hour) 6atthew =70;J:" Not nowing the (day and the hour)

is used by most .hristians to argue that .hristians are not to see the e/act time of future

!ro!hesied e#ents" But Hesus may ha#e been hinting that the end of the age would beginon some future ?ay of Trum!ets 6osh -ashanah:" Seen in the light of the Feast of

Trum!ets$ the timing may be much more understandable than has been affirmed"

.hrist may ha#e been gi#ing a sort of cry!tic message that the time of tribulation would

begin at the Feast of Trum!ets" Knowing other !ro!hecies may shed more light on this

and confirm this to be the case" The !ro!het ?aniel en#isioned that there would be a finaltribulation time of =$8=C days" This is <$=JC 6forty,two months: !lus <=JC 6another forty,

two months:" ?aniel also adds an additional thirty days 6?aniel <=0<<:4 thirty days were

added !eriodically to calibrate the Hewish festi#als with the seasons" Some ha#e

inter!reted 6most liely incorrectly: that each of these days refers to a year" This has ledto swee!ing doctrines of historical e!ochs$ etc" It was also a!!lied to ?aniel)s #isions

resulting with doctrines that are mostly re%ected ?an" 0<7:"

So the tribulation time is a total of =$8=C days" This is e/actly se#en years according to

the Hewish calendar" This is based on a lunar and solar calculation$ which includes twel#e

months of thirty days each" So a Hewish year is only ;JC days$ unlie the !urely solaryear of ;J8 days" The Hewish calendar adds an e/tra month in certain years so that

Passo#er always falls sometime in the s!ring"



Adding the additional thirty days brings a total of =$88C days" sing the festi#als of Israel

as a framewor$ there are many future ?ays of Atonement 6Dom Ki!!ur: of #arious years

that are a!!ro/imately =$88C days after Feasts of Trum!ets se#en years earlier" In otherwords$ this means that the final (wee) of tribulation !lus an additional thirty days

foretold by ?aniel 6?n" @0=9:$ may #ery well fall between a future Feast of Trum!ets and

a ?ay of Atonement 6(the &reat Tribulation) is belie#ed by many to be the last half of thetotal time of tribulation ?n" <=0<<,<=$ t" =70<8$ =<,==:"

Some future Feast of Trum!ets will !robably herald the beginning of the final se#en yearsof this age and an additional thirty days which will end on a future ?ay of Atonement"

The tribulation is a time of trial and testing for &od)s !eo!le" It is foretold to last =$8=C

days" The additional thirty are not tribulation for &od)s !eo!le4 their tribulation has

ended" But there are su!!osed to be thirty days before the ?ay of Atonement"

Thirty is commonly held to be a number maring right timing or right ordering$ a higher

degree of the !erfection of di#ine order" Hesus was thirty years old when he began his

earthly ministry 6ue ;0=;:" Hose!h was thirty years old when he began his office inEgy!t under !haraoh 6&enesis 7<07J:" ?a#id was thirty years of age when he began to

reign" Hesus was betrayed for thirty !ieces of sil#er 6atthew =90;$ Oechariah <<0<=:"These thirty days could #ery well be a time between .hrist)s return on earth and the time

when he actually begins to reign on earth" This then seems to mean that .hrist)s actual

reign on earth will begin on the ?ay of Atonement$ although he)d actually returned thirtydays before that"

These thirty days may be included as !art of a final forty days of !robation for &od)s

!eo!le or anyone left on earth that might be coming o#er to &od)s !eo!le" Periods offorty days$ years$ etc" most certainly signify a time of trial or testing" It is seen by many

as not the same thing as %udgment$ although it may #ery well entail %udgment for those

who re%ect &od" There would be forty,two days from the end of the tribulation 6=$8=Cdays after a !ast Trum!ets: to the end of Tabernacles 6also called Booths or Suoth:" If

the two Sabbath rest days on the first and last days of Tabernacles are not included$ then

there are forty days from the end of the tribulation to the end of Tabernacles"

These forty days could well be the !eriod of the se#enth seal of the Boo of e#elation

which a!!ears to include se#en trum!et %udgments and se#en bowl %udgments" If so$

these %udgments would not be on Israel$ but on the rest of the world> This is becauseIsrael)s tribulation would ha#e ended" Hesus may ha#e been referring to this forty,day

!eriod 6atthew =70;9,;@:$ being (lie the days of Noah)" And .hrist indicated that the

tribulation would end with the (sign of the son of man) which will include a darened sunand blood moon 6atthew =70=@,;C:" any other !ro!hecies in the +ld Testament

assuredly refer to the same e#ent"

So it a!!ears that these forty days will begin with troubling celestial e#ents" And

according to what has been determined from !ro!hecy$ thirty days will then !ass to the

?ay of Atonement" It a!!ears that this is the day .hrist returns in glory"



According to Hewish law$ on the ?ay of Atonement the high !riest went into the Tem!le

and sacrificed a bulloc for his own sins and a goat for the !eo!le" -e then s!oe all of

the !eo!le)s sins o#er a second goat$ the (sca!egoat)$ which was released to run off intothe wilderness$ taing away the !eo!le)s sin with it 6e#" <J:" It might be s!eculated that

.hrist$ the only true high !riest$ will return on a ?ay of Atonement$ fulfilling it once and

for all"

-e might enter the Tem!le to cleanse it$ as the high !riest did" -e wouldn)t need to

sacrifice a bulloc for himself and he wouldn)t need to sacrifice a goat for the !eo!le$ because his death atoned for all" Neither would he need to send out a sca!egoat" But he

might #ery well do this as a fulfillment" The beast 6Antichrist: and the false !ro!het are

good candidates for the bulloc and the goat" They)ll be sei*ed and cast into the ae of

Fire$ as the slain bulloc and goat were slain as a sin offering and ha#ing their carcassestaen away from the tabernacle and burned" Satan is a good candidate for the sca!egoat"

Satan will be cast into the Bottomless Pit" The Bottomless Pit is a forlorn and solitary

!lace$ lie the wilderness where the sca!egoat was released to roam" +f course the

destruction of the beast and false !ro!het will not atone for anyone or anything$ %ust liethe bulloc and goat offered on the ?ay of Atonement ne#er !ermanently atone for

anything$ as Paul obser#es 6in 5:" Satan)s banishment atones for nothing either$ but ita!!ears with his banishment$ sin is remo#ed or banished"

When .hrist returns he will set u! his ingdom on earth" -e will certainly rule fromHerusalem" +f course the armies under the sway of the Antichrist will see to destroy

.hrist and his ingdom by force"

There is also another interesting detail" any of the %udgments of the se#enth sealin#ol#e water" It a!!ears there will be little drinable water left on earth" But the !ro!het

Oechariah clearly referred to a s!ring of fresh and a!!arently drinable water flowing out

of Herusalem 6Oech" <70:" This a!!ears to be in connection to the earthuae referred toin many di#erse !arts of the Bible and the e#ent referred by Oechariah 6Oech" <707:" It

a!!ears that .hrist)s return will in#ol#e an earthuae which will release a colossal

s!ring dee! under Israel" This is also a !icture of oses ta!!ing the roc and watercoming out" The nations o!!osed to .hrist and Israel will undoubtedly desire the water

and this may be !art of the reason they in#ade Israel"

There will still remain twel#e days from the ?ay of Atonement to the end of Tabernacles"That time then a!!ears to be the occasion of the last har#est of .hristian souls and The

Battle of Armageddon" The Festi#al of Tabernacles begins fi#e days after the ?ay of

Atonement" Fi#e is commonly held to be the number of grace in the Bible" So this may besome ind of (grace !eriod)"

Tabernacles is also nown as (the festi#al of ingathering) or har#est" This may corres!ondto e#ents described in e#elation 6e#" <7:" It uses the image of har#ests and could well

be .hrist)s fulfillment of Tabernacles once and for all" At this time .hrist would be

gathering all those around the world who will acce!t him" This would be his se!arating

(the wheat from the tares) with the hel! of angels" The barley is nown to be easiest to



se!arate$ with the least effort" Wheat is harder to se!arate from the chaff" The !ressing of

the (gra!es of wrath) is widely held to refer clearly to Armageddon"

The !ro!het ?aniel made a !u**ling statement in#ol#ing <$;;8 days 6?an" <=0<=:" This

a!!ears to be the <$=@C days referred to !lus an additional forty,fi#e days" It is interesting

to note that if the <=@C days of ?aniel terminate with a future ?ay of Atonement$ thenforty,fi#e days after that 6totaling <;;8 days: would fall on the twenty,fifth day of the

eighth month 6arches#an: in the Hewish calendar" This would be so because the ?ay of

Atonement always falls on the tenth day of the se#enth month 6Tishri: in the Hewishcalendar 6e#" =;0=9$ Num" =@09,<<:"

The twenty,fifth day of the eighth month has no nown festi#al or holy day4 howe#er$ the

twenty fifth of the ninth month 6.hisle#: does" This is nown as the Feast of ?edication"The Feast of ?edication is also nown as -anuah" The Feast of ?edication is referred

to by the a!ostle Hohn and also is found described in a!ocry!hal boos 6Hohn <C0==$ <

accabees 708=,8@:" The reference in accabees !laces the Feast of ?edication on the

twenty,fifth day of .hisle#" But -anuah usually falls later in ?ecember, i"e" not alwaysin the ninth month$ which is more in an early No#emberG?ecember time frame"

-anuah originated with the desecration and restoration of the Tem!le in Herusalem in

<9C,<J7 B"." This holiday mars the sac of Herusalem and the desecration of the Tem!le

on ?ecember =8$ <J9 B"."$ by the Seluecid ing Antiochus E!i!hanes" The Seleucid ingentered the Tem!le and set u! an image of the &ree god Oeus and sacrificed a !ig to it"

This is widely held to be the (abomination of desolation) s!oen of by ?aniel 6?an"

<<0;<:" The e#ents surrounding this are also widely belie#ed to ha#e been foretold 6?an"

0<C,<74 <<0<C,;7:"

According to many inter!retations of the Bible and of history$ the Tem!le in Herusalem

was desecrated for three and a half years" It was restored on ?ecember =8$ <J7 B"." TheBible !redicts that the Tem!le will be desecrated again at some time in the future for

another three and a half years 6?an" @0=94 <=0<<$ at" =70<8$ e#" <<0<,;:"

The association of the desecrationGrestoration of the Hewish Tem!le on ?ecember =8 is

curiously interesting with its ob#ious connections" But still !u**ling is the fact that

-anuah falls outside of the timeframe set in accabees" This might be answered by the

fact that the date of ?ecember =8 in <J9G<J7 B"." might ha#e been at a somewhatdifferent season than it is now4 the calendar may ha#e been off" any calendar e/!erts

agree that by <J9 B"." the oman calendar was off by as much as two months from the

modern calendar> Interestingly then$ !erha!s$ the desecrationGrestoration of the Tem!le in<J9 B"." ha!!ened at a time of year more lie +ctober rather than ?ecember" This

becomes interesting$ since ?aniel)s <$;;8 days may terminate with a final re,dedication

of the Tem!le at the end of +ctober"

If this is so$ why then is -anuah so far off of +ctober5 Also$ if ?ecember =8 really is

im!ortant to .hristians as the day the Tem!le was restored$ not as the day of .hrist)s

birth$ why is it also so far off from +ctober5 -as there been a co#er,u!5 &oing bac to



ancient times5 The only holiday associated with +ctober now is -alloween" .ould this

shed some light on this !ossible mi/ u! of holidays5 The Bible does shed some light on

it"

The end of +ctober begins the rainy season in Israel and this time has been associated

with the great flood and Noah" ?e!ending on how one inter!rets the boo of &enesis$ theflood started at the end of +ctober" This eighth month in the Hewish calendar was

considered the second month in times before oses and the E/odus from Egy!t"

This month 6arches#an: was also nown as Bul and this name was used long before

oses" The name has been associated with dryness$ being !art of the dry season in Israel

and also dry for lacing any festi#als" The Bible tells us that the original Tem!le of

Solomon was com!leted in this month and that it too se#en years to build it 6< KingsJ0;:" But it was not dedicated until ele#en months later 6< Kings 0=:" It)s also

interesting to note that if it was three and a half years to restore the Tem!le in the !ast$

and will be three and a half years to restore it in the future$ this adds u! to se#en$ the

original amount of time it too to com!lete the first Tem!le" So will there be a tem!lededication in the future at the end of +ctober5 This may in#ol#e a once and for all

dedication of the Tem!le in Herusalem and may include the marriage su!!er of the lamb"

There is a non,biblical rabbinic tradition that when King ?a#id cut off &oliath)s head he

buried it at Herusalem" It)s said a mound grew u! at the s!ot and became nown as the(!lace of a sull) for the sull buried there$ &olgotha for &oliath of &ath" Taing lea#e to

s!eculate$ it)s interesting to thin of the sull as a seed" If &oliath was a (seed of the

ser!ent)$ it seems somehow fitting that &od would use something e#il for good" So &od

used the (!lace of a sull) as the s!ot for Hesus) crucifi/ion"

But it doesn)t end there" Some ha#e s!eculated that the original tree of life once grew on

the s!ot where Hesus was crucified" +ne might tae the liberality of further s!eculatingthat .hrist)s own blood germinated the ground at &olgotha" &oliath)s sull in the ground

might be thought of as a (seed) from which the tree of life will s!rout" So it seems

somehow !oetic and fitting that &od would use one of the !rogeny of his enemy torestore the tree of life" And &od would also use the earthuae at .hrist)s return to loosen

the ground for the tree to s!rout" It)s %ust a thought"

E#ery symbol re!resents a !art of reality$ but behind each of them is a dee!er s!iritualreality and usually an indi#idual s!irit" The red dragon of e#elation is certainly Satan4

the Boo of e#elation maes this clear 6e#" <=0;$ @:" It is also a !olitical or

go#ernmental reality" The beast of e#elation a!!ears to be almost identical with the reddragon 6e#" <;0<,;:" Both ha#e se#en heads and ten horns" But the red dragon has only

se#en crowns and they are on its heads$ while the beast has ten crowns and they are on its

horns" The beast seems to be described a bit differently from the red dragon also"

The Bible a!!ears to be relating that the beast is some ty!e of reflection of the dragon$

lie a son$ but it is an im!erfect reflection" Bible scholars claim this is Satan)s attem!t at

mimicing the father,son relationshi! of &od and .hrist" We can clearly see that Satan



fails to foster an e/act re!resentation of himself$ unlie &od" .hrist is an e/act

re!resentation of &od according to the Bible and .hrist himself 6Hohn <C0;C4 <70@$ .ol"

<0<8:"

Behind the beast is another s!irit" According to e#elation$ this is the angel called

Abbadon in -ebrew$ the angel of the bottomless !it 6e#" <90:" This fallen angel isreleased by another angel$ !robably Satan 6e#" @0<:" Notice that this !assage describes

this angel as falling" +ther a!!arently good angels are ne#er described as falling to the

earth" So the beast seems to ha#e one fallen angel behind it as the red dragon has Satan behind it"

It follows from this that the beast from the earth in also has a s!irit behind it 6e#" <;0<<:"

This beast a!!ears to be more subtle$ being described as a lamb" The s!irit behind it isassuredly an e#il s!irit by the descri!tion of this beast (s!eaing lie a dragon)" It is not

clear what s!irit this is" Satan$ the beast and the false !ro!het seem to be influenced by

three other s!irits 6e#" <J0<;,<7:" I belie#e these three (de#ils) may be s!irits in

e/istence early in creation" They may be e#en feminine s!irits and named in the creationaccount" A good guess would be Night and Seas" The other is !robably Ashtoreth which

has much to do with war but not in the creation account"

So here we see three s!irits at wor behind three earthly 6also hea#enly$ but cast out:

realities$ the red dragon$ the beast from the sea and the beast out of the earth" The Biblefurther euates these three s!irits and their corres!onding earthly realities with Satan$

Antichrist and the false !ro!het" This is made clear 6e#" <J0<;,<7:" Bible scholars ha#e

described this as an (anti trinity)$ a counterfeit of the real -oly Trinity" These are

!robably the most !owerful fallen s!irits and wor together for their !ur!oses"

It is not clear %ust what e/actly those !ur!oses are" They are generally to thwart the

!ur!oses of &od" +ne way they do this is surely by controlling or !ossessing human beings" The heads and horns of the red dragon$ the beast from the sea and the beast from

the earth re!resent human beings who will be$ ha#e been or are undoubtedly under the

influence or outright !ossession of the s!irit or s!irits behind each" ?aniel and e#elationstate this !lainly 6?an" 90=7$ e#" <90<C,<=:" The !ur!oses of the three unclean s!irits

ha#e much to do with their !ower o#er these humans$ first and foremost"

The se#en heads of both the red dragon and the beast from the sea are si/ !owerfulem!erors or ings of the !ast and a se#enth who will arise and is !robably ali#e now"

Indeed$ the Bible states that fi#e of the corres!onding ings were of the !ast e#en when

Saint Hohn wrote the Boo of e#elation 6e#" <90<C:" Notice that the se#en heads eachhas a crown on the red dragon but not on the beast from the sea 6e#" <=0;4 <;0<:" This

a!!arently refers to the fact that these se#en indi#iduals had !ower and authority at some

!oint in time" So the red dragon seems to be mostly an entity of the !ast" It willa!!arently be com!letely of the !ast by the time the beast from the sea arises"

The beast from the sea is certainly an entity entirely of the future or to be re#ealed in the

future" Notice that the crowns of this beast are no longer on the se#en heads$ but on the



ten horns" The change of the crowns seems to refer to their authority coming from the

!re#ious se#en rulers of the !ast" These ten ings will rule at the same time 6e#" <90<=,

<;:" The se#en !re#ious rulers a!!ear to ha#e ruled at different times and !laces o#ermany ages" The ten hornsGings s!oen of by ?aniel are considered to be the same as in

e#elation 6?an" 909$ =C$ =7:" But notice that ?aniel ne#er refers to the se#en heads"

?aniel only refers to one head" It may be that only one of the se#en heads of e#elationhad arisen by the time of ?aniel)s #ision" It is not clear if the ten horns are current with

?aniel or %ust a glim!se into the future"

+ne of the se#en heads has been fatally wounded 6e#" <;0;:" The !ro!hecy seems to

indicate that the beast 6Antichrist: is the se#enth ruler 6e#" <90<<:" The fact that he is

also an eighth may be referring to his death and resurrection" -e is certainly the

(wounded head)" This$ by the way$ also alludes to the #ery beginning of the Bible and&od)s !ro!hecy 6&en" ;0<8:" any scholars belie#e !assages in e#elation !lainly tell us

that the Antichrist will be illed and raised from the dead 6e#" <;0<=$ <74 <90<<:" It)s not

clear %ust when this is$ but it a!!ears to be about the time that the red dragon hands

authority o#er to the beast from the sea" The three unclean s!irits may o!erate together to !ull this miracle off"

Some thin it im!ossible that Satan would be able to resurrect someone" I thin the

reasoning at the core of this belief is that Satan is not eual to &od and angels do not

ha#e the !owers that &od does" From this reasoning it follows that the Antichrist willonly (a!!ear) to rise from the dead" But it may be that the !owers of fallen angels and

Satan may be underestimated" Who)s to say %ust what their !owers are5 Perha!s they ha#e

more !ower than we reali*e" It)s only that &od has hindered them" +f course &od must

!ermit e#il s!irits to do anything" aybe &od will allow the Antichrist to be raised fromthe dead"

Hust because Satan raises someone from the dead doesn)t mean that &od is not still incontrol" Satan)s !ower and the !owers of all the angels ultimately come from &od" This

will !robably cause a lot of confusion and be an im!ortant test for true belie#ers" No

doubt many could be fooled by such an e#ent" It may be that Satan himself will be fooled"It might #ery well be that with such an e#ent$ Satan will thin that he is eual to &od"

This might be the !oint at which the war in hea#en begins 6e#" <=09,@:" Satan may

belie#e then that he is able to tae o#er hea#en itself"

The red dragon associated with Satan is associated with se#eral !eo!le$ but no one human

indi#idual" The beast from the sea and the beast from the earth are associated with more

than one !erson also" -owe#er$ they are both also euated with human indi#iduals4 the beast from the sea is commonly belie#ed to be the Antichrist and the beast from the earth

the false !ro!het" Furthermore$ the human being euated with the beast from the sea is

both an indi#idual and also a !art of the beast from the sea at the same time"

In the Bible horns almost always re!resent !owerful !eo!le$ so it is fairly certain that the

horns of the red dragon$ the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth are all human

beings" The se#en heads and ten horns ha#e clearly been shown to be rulers" The two



small horns of the beast from the earth are !robably the beast 6Antichrist: and the false

!ro!het" The beast 6Antichrist: had been the se#enth head of the red dragon and of the

beast from the sea" But the se#enth head is dead on the beast from the sea" So it may bethat the beast 6Antichrist: becomes a horn of the beast from the earth after he is raised

from the dead"

?id ?aniel really write that he saw a beast with (ten caesars) 6?n" 909:5 Is this the same

figure described in the a!ocaly!se5 It certainly a!!ears to be" Again$ horns almost always

refer to !owerful and !rominent human indi#iduals" All of the horns in ?aniel cha!ter are referring to !rominent indi#iduals" Prominent mountain !eas are sometimes called

(horns) as in atterhorn of the Al!s" Some indi#iduals can be thought of as !rominent

abo#e their fellows as are some mountain !eas o#er the rest of the terrain" Powerful

!eo!le also may be thought of as cons!icuously dangerous as are some animal horns"Indeed !ro!hecy e#en maes it irrefutably clear that the horns are indi#idual ings 6?an"

90=7$ e#" <90<=:"

A study of the English word horn yields some other ama*ing insights of the Bible" Themeaning a!!lies to other conce!ts besides !rominent indi#iduals$ but shed light on the

multi,faceted meaning &od is trying to relate" -orns always symboli*e !ower and !rominence in the Bible" The meaning is usually negati#e as in destruction and e/celling

e#il" But sometimes horns are seen as !arts of &od)s tem!le$ such as the (horns of the

altar)$ and are therefore good"

-orn is one word that is relati#ely unchanged in many languages" &ree is eras or ceros$

as in rhinoceros$ (nose horn)" atin corn is almost identical to the English form" And e#en

-ebrew eren is recogni*able" A!!lying a linguistic rule here hel!s clarify the differencein the s!elling and !ronunciation of the word across these languages" . and h often

mutate into one another" The c in a word lie corn is often !ronounced more lie ch with

c and h slurred together" So by this rule$ corn changes to horn and #ice #ersa" The in the-ebrew form is basically really a c sound and mutates similarly"

When horn refers to the horns on an animal lie a bull or goat$ it im!lies a wea!on of !ower and destruction" In this sense a horn becomes a s!ear 6the meaning of horn as a

musical instrument comes undoubtedly from the fact that animal horns could !ossibly be

used in this way instead of as a wea!on:" When a horn is thought of as a s!ear$ another

related word comes into #iew" This is English gore" We now the meaning of gore aswhen a bull gores a !erson with its horns" And gore also has come to mean blood$ which

is !roduced by s!earing a creature" &ore is an arcane word for s!ear" Word roots gor$ ger

and gar all often refer to s!ears in words" +ne theory on the meaning of the word&erman$ for instance$ is (s!ear man)"

There are many words in many languages which include the roots har$ hor$ her$ etc" Theyall refer to an army or a mountain" These roots ha#e a related meaning to gor$ ger$ gar$

etc" Sometimes related are roots with car$ cor$ cer$ etc" Sometimes the root dro!s the

initial consonant and becomes ar$ or$ er$ etc" All of these words refer in their dee!est

meaning to a triangle" A s!ear ti! is a triangular formation" An animal)s horn has a



triangular ti!" A mountain !ea is basically triangular" -ere we begin to see a wide range

of meanings which at first a!!ear unrelated$ but are tied at a central theme of a triangle"

When these roots refer to an army$ it is surely in the sense of the fact that ancient armies

used s!ears as wea!ons" The &erman name -erman means (army man)" The &ree god

of war was Ares" Perha!s the Aryan !eo!le were so named because they were warlie" +r maybe it was because they were nown for ha#ing large herds of cattle 6which were

horned:" The &ree and oman names for bear are arctos and ursus$ res!ecti#ely" The ar

and ur of these words may refer to the fact that bears ha#e teeth lie s!ears"

any mountains follow this !attern" ount -ermon$ ount Ararat or %ust Ararat and

-ara are good e/am!les" Armaggedon or -armageddon means (mountainGhill 6ar: of

egiddo)" Ararat may sim!ly mean (mountains)" ount Sinai is also nown as -oreb"The h of -ermon and -oreb both also may add one of &od)s names to mae it a di#ine

mountain"

+ne last meaning these root words refer to is another geogra!hical meaning referred toearlier" That is the English word gore for a triangular !iece of land formed by the

confluence of ri#ers" So$ there is an ama*ing range of meanings$ wide yet related" We canclearly see the multi,dimensional layers of meanings found in the language of the Bible"

The &ree word eras adds an s at the end$ maing it a bit different from the other forms"The name .aesar most liely also means s!ear or horn and a!!ears deri#ed from a word

originating with the &ree$ most !robably by the way of .eltic !eo!le" A!!lying the

conce!t of metathesis and the changing of the order of letters$ eras can be altered into

esar$ which loos sur!risingly lie .aesar" The &auls who often fought the omans and.aesar were nown to call their s!ears gaesa$ gaesum$ gesati$ cesati$ etc" The &auls also

titled !owerful and !rominent leaders by these words" .aesar is belie#ed to ha#e titled

himself by the same word when he defeated the &auls" Incidentally gael is the Irish .elticform of s!ear and may #ery well be the origin of the word &aelic"<

So the name .aesar also comes from horn" Are we to assume the beast is a re#i#al of theold oman Em!ire5 any ha#e assumed this" This is correct in that the beast will most

liely ha#e a !olitical system o!erating lie the oman Em!ire did" It also seems

!robable since the harlot figure en#isioned rides the same beast" The harlot a!!ears to be

ome and its church 6e#" <9:"

The ten horns or ings may not necessarily call themsel#es .aesars$ but they will be as

!rominent and !owerful as the .aesars of the !ast" And at times there were se#eral.aesars in !ower at the same time" But notice that ?aniel gi#es a little further detail

about the horns" -e also en#isioned that three of the horns would be u!rooted$ (taen u!

by the roots)" The word used by ?aniel is aar or eer" Aar means (to u!root)" But the#erse might ha#e a meaning more of eer$ which is (trans!lanted)" This may ha#e

something to do with the three great monarchies of Euro!e which were ended in World

War I" These were those of the ussian Tsar$ &erman Kaiser and Austro,-ungarian

em!eror" The first two of these actually titled themsel#es after .aeser" The em!eror



!robably thought of himself as such" Were these monarchies really destroyed5 -a#e they

disa!!eared only to reemerge someday$ trans!lanted to other lands5<

The sea in symbolism always refers to nations and s!ecifically gentiles 6e#" <90<8:"

E*eiel refers to the city of Tyre in the same way 6E*e" =90;:" Tyre was in fact a city

based on trade" Its !rinci!le strength was connections to the sea and !orts worldwide"Tyre was a symbol of worldliness" It re!resented global humanity symbolically but was

also associated with the actual sea in reality" Babylon has been referred to in the same

way$ es!ecially in cha!ters <9 and < of e#elation" Babylon and Tyre were actual citiesat one time$ but are also symbolic of worldliness and systems that still e/ist"

The sea is usually associated with e#il for these reasons" It is also considered e#il because

it is associated with water" Water is sometimes considered e#il" The world was once %udged and !unished with water" This may e/!lain how the -ebrew root word (dn) once

meant life,gi#ing$ flowing water$ as in Eden$ but came to mean %udge or %udgment as in

the name ?an" Water was held to !ossess many e#il !ro!ensities" But water also still

meant life$ but only when associated with &od himself" So when the sea is associatedwith the beast of ?aniel and e#elation$ it is clearly e#il" The !oint is made e#en clearer

when water is associated with the ser!ent 6e#" <=0<8:"

&od !romised he would ne#er %udge the world with water again" But this does not mean

that water would not be destructi#e again" Satan and man might still mae use of waterfor e#il !ur!oses$ yet clearly with not the immense and total destructi#e !ower as when it

is wielded by &od"

The Bible often relates the im!ortant commodities of Israel$ and for that matter the world6Ps" <C70<8:" It goes further with a curious !arable about different trees or !lants 6Hdg"

@09,<8:" The bramble$ is one of the few !lants written about that is not a sta!le of the

ancient world" The fig is belie#ed to be the #ery fruit of the tree of the nowledge of goodand e#il$ which brought ruin on manind" Wine is said to$ (cheer &od and men)" Why

would it cheer &od5 Is it !ossible that the gra!e was some ind of re!lacement for the

fruit of the nowledge of good and e#il5 +r a tem!orary substitute for the fruit of the treeof life e#en5

The Bible doesn)t say" But many !assages about the #ine are interesting" It is interesting

first of all to note some things about Noah" Noah)s #ery name was associated with liftingthe curse beueathed by Adam and E#e 6&en" 80=@:" Known for building the ar and

sa#ing manind$ Noah is also nown for !lanting #ineyards as well as the !roduction of

wine 6&en" @0=C,=<:" -e either de#elo!ed the gra!e or ad#anced the culti#ation of gra!es"Is there a lin with this and the !ro!hecy concerning him and the meaning of his name5

Ne/t we see wine 6and also bread: associated with the mysterious elchi*ede and his blessing of Abraham 6&en" <70<,=C:" elchi*ede is widely held to be the !re,incarnate

Hesus .hrist 6-eb" 90<,7:" I belie#e this is the only e/!lanation for who elchi*ede

wasGis" The bread and wine are of course the elements of the last su!!er and the New

Testament" But also Paul !oints out the healing !ro!erties of wine 6< Timothy 80=;:" +f



course Paul also warned ominously of abuse 6< .orinthians <<0=;,;C:" The Boo of

Pro#erbs also gi#es am!le ad#ice concerning too much wine" Hesus turned water into

wine" +ne might see this as turning water$ %udgment$ into wine$ %ustification"

+li#e oil was a fundamental and #ital sta!le of the ancient world and Israel" It could be

eaten$ used to coo other food$ burned for light and heat$ anoint ings$ heal the body$ bothinside and outside$ and e#en used as a mild la/ati#e" The oli#e tree was associated with

wealth and !ros!erity in the ancient world" In Oecheriah)s #ision a !icture is !resented of

a golden lam!stand and two oli#e trees 6Oech" 70=,;:" This is echoed in the Boo ofe#elation is another #ision of the same lam!stand$ 6e#" <0<=,<;:" .hrist is associated

with the bowl in Oecheriah)s #ision" The bowl)s !ur!ose on the lam!stand is to su!!ly

each candle" e#elation further euates .hrist with the bowl of the lam!stand" The two

oli#e trees of Oecheriah)s #ision are mentioned again in e#elation" In this !assage thetwo witnesses are associated or euated with the two oli#e trees" The se#en candlestics

in the #isions of Oecheriah and Hohn are the se#en churches as .hrist maes clear 6e#"

=0<$ <0=C$ <<07:"

There has been much debate about who these two witnesses are" Eli%ah$ oses$ Enoch

and Hohn the Ba!tist are usually associated with the two witnesses" oses and Eli%ahwere seen at the transfiguration so this has gi#en reason for some to thin they are the

two witnesses" any claim the two witnesses are Eli%ah and oses" They cite alachi

who !ointed to the names oses and Eli%ah 6al" 707,8:"

+thers see Eli%ah and Enoch as the two witnesses" They are the only two !eo!le in history

6Bible: nown to ha#e been translated into hea#en and not e/!erience death 6unless they

died in the !rocess of translation:" The Bible claims it is a!!ointed to all men once to dieand then %udgment 6-eb" @0=9:" So one must as$ are Eli%ah and Enoch yet to die5 If they

ha#e yet to die$ they could well be the two witnesses$ since they will die as shown in

cha!ter << of e#elation" But as belie#ers$ others claim$ we now .hrist fulfilled allincluding dying for all$ so$ though most may die$ all may not necessarily$ but we all will

be changed$ which Paul seems to claim 6< .or" <808<:" Also$ Eli%ah was nown for

sto!!ing rain lie the two witnesses do" Eli%ah and also oses were nown for greatmiracles in#ol#ing water"

The Bible also s!eas of &entiles as wild oli#es and Hews as the natural oli#es" Some

ha#e s!eculated that the oli#e trees of Oecheriah)s #ision re!resent Hews and &entiles$ onetree being the natural and the other the wild" The assum!tion that Enoch was a &entile

and Eli%ah a Hew has strengthened the identification of Enoch and Eli%ah with the two

oli#e trees and two witnesses" This reasoning may not be correct$ because the Bibles!eas of wild oli#e branches only as &entiles$ being grafted onto natural oli#e trees" In

other words$ there is one tree which includes both wild and natural !arts$ not two se!arate

trees" So these may be se!arate conce!ts"

I thin there is another !ossibility for the identity of the two witnesses" But I first ha#e to

as$ witnesses of what5 They are called (my two witnesses) 6e#" <<0;:" These two are



certainly witnesses of .hrist" What did they witness about him5 There are many

witnesses of .hrist" In fact$ all belie#ers are witnesses of .hrist$ more or less"

What maes the (two witnesses) uniue from e#ery other witness of .hrist5 I would

#enture to say that a true$ or !erfect$ witness of .hrist would be one that new .hrist as

he li#ed among men$ saw his righteousness$ saw his miracles$ saw his transfiguration$saw his death on the cross and saw him after he was raised from the dead4 this would be a

true witness" There is only one !erson that the Bible clearly indicates that this could ha#e

been" This is the a!ostle Hohn$ son of Oebedee" -e li#ed and wored with .hrist and sawthe miracles" -e saw Hesus transfigured 6atthew <90<,=:" The gos!el of Hohn re#eals

that Hohn was at the crucifi/ion and also at the trial 6Hohn <0<8$ <@0=J:" Hohn saw .hrist

after he had been raised from the dead and he saw .hrist ascend into hea#en"

The New Testament tells us about Hames and Hohn the sons of Oebedee and the reuest to

be on .hrist)s right and left in his ingdom 6att" =C0=C,=$ ar <C0;9,78:" The two

oli#e trees or two witnesses stand on .hrist)s right and left" Is this what Hames and Hohn

were referring to5 The Bible doesn)t mae this clear" It also ne#er states that Hames andHohn were granted this reuest" But$ according to what a witness is$ at least Hohn

ualifies" Perha!s Hames did also$ but the Bible does not say" I do thin that Hames andHohn are good candidates as the two witnesses of e#elation <<$ although this same

Hames a!!ears to ha#e been illed 6Acts <=0<,=:" But notice this Hames is ne#er connected

to Oebedee" Hohn)s gos!el hints that Hohn wouldn)t die or at least he might remain in theworld until .hrist)s return 6Hohn =<0=<,=;:" We now that both !robably new .hrist

throughout his life$ were a!ostles$ were at the transfiguration and saw him after he was

raised from the dead"

The lam!stand is a !icture of .hrist)s interaction with his church" .hrist$ the bowl$

su!!lies the oil to the se#en candlestics" The candlestics shine light as they burn the oil"

The oli#e trees su!!ly the oli#e oil to the bowl" .hrist associates an angel for each of hisse#en churches 6e#" <0=C:" The se#en churches named in e#elation are all gone now"

But their s!irits remain" e#elation is telling us that there are se#en distinct ty!es of

churches$ related to their attendant angel" They are still in the world and constitute thetrue .hristian church"

any times the Bible mentions earthuaes" Se#eral !assages refer to s!ecific

earthuaes or at least we might assume with some certainty that they are s!ecialearthuaes" We now there are earthuaes all the time around the world" So often when

the bible refers to an earthuae$ it must be a uniue or #ery unusual earthuae" There

seems to be one earthuae which may lin se#eral !assages from different !arts of theBible" The Boo of e#elation mentions a great earthuae 6e#" J0<=:" This is !robably

the same earthuae as one mentioned later in the boo 6e#" <<0<;:" Something lie an

earthuae is mentioned that seems to be associated with the earthuae alreadymentioned$ because of similar e#ents described" In the +li#et ?iscourse$ .hrist himself

also describes e#ents #ery striingly similar to e#ents described in e#elation 6att"

=70=@,;C:"



Oechariah also describes a similar e#ent4 he seems to be referring to the same thing

6Oebh" <707,9:" -e also does not describe an earthuae s!ecifically$ but such an e#ent he

describes would surely be associated with a great earthuae" E*eiel also certainlydescribes a great earthuae 6there are #arying translations and wordings in E*eiel

;0<@:" This earthuae is hel!ful in #ery !ositi#ely lining se#eral !ro!hecies to the

same e#ent" Each of these !ro!hecies fills in much detail of the e#ents" E*eiel associatesthis earthuae with a great battle" .ould this be the battle of Armageddon5

If it is$ then E*eiel gi#es im!ortant information of %ust what nations and !eo!le will beat this battle" If we go by the study of the names earlier$ and according to our nowledge

of these !eo!le$ we may ha#e a fairly clear !icture of what nations will be fighting

against Israel" E*eiel indicates that ussia$ Persia 6Iran:$ Turey$ ibya and Ethio!ia will

attac Israel" E*eiel mentions a country from the far north which is most !robablynations of northern and eastern Asia" Some Euro!ean nations a!!ear to be indicated also"

Another e#ent which lins se#eral !ro!hecies and a!!ears to be associated with the same

e#ents is the ord$ or .hrist$ standing on the ount of +li#es" Oecheriah and the a!ostleHohn describe this 6Oech" <707$ e#" <70<:" So the earthuae described in other !laces

a!!ears to be associated with .hrist)s return when he stands on the ount of +li#es"

A Tale of Two !omen

The Boo of e#elation could be called many things" It might be called$ 2The Four

-orsemen"3 It might be called$ (A Tale of Two .ities)" I titled this cha!ter after two

!rominent characters in the last boo of the Bible" +ne woman is the harlot and the other

is the bride of .hrist" I said earlier that a woman always re!resents an institution in Biblesymbolism" The harlot is widely held to be the corru!t or a!ostate church" The bride of

.hrist is the true and faithful church"

The bride has been euated also with uth of the +ld Testament" uth the oabitess$ the

gentile$ has a good end$ married to the wealthy Hew" The oabites and the Ammonites

share a lineage with the Hews as Abraham)s descendants" -ated and des!ised$ theirancestral lands$ along with Edom$ are seen by many to esca!e the !ower of the Antichrist

6?aniel <<07<:" uth of oab marries into the bloodline of .hrist through Boa* and she

hel!s the rea!ers$ which is seen as symboli*ing the wor of the gos!el and the church"The bride is faithful and obedient" The harlot is self,centered$ recalcitrant and e#en

murderous"

We see the fates of these two figures in e#elation" The harlot is de!osed$ stri!!ed of !ower and burned u!" The bride of .hrist %oins with the returned and trium!hant .hrist"

The harlot church is associated with worldly religion" It is a sold out merchant church

filled with the s!irit of Balaam$ who !ro!hesied for money" -e would ha#e twisted thetruth if he could ha#e" .hrist refers to this himself 6 e#elation =0<7:" This is a church

which really !reaches nothing and e#erything but the true gos!el at the same time"



The false church is de!icted in contrast to the bride of .hrist 6e#elation <=0<4 <90<,J:"

any theologians ha#e euated this woman with the Hewish nation" But some euate her

with Israel" Technically the Hewish nation is the tribe of Hudah and Ben%amin only" Israelincludes ten other tribes$ which are lost or concealed" So Israel is actually all twel#e

tribes and it has s!iritual dimensions" It is all those who ha#e trusted in .hrist and it

includes a great amount of !eo!le actually descended from Israel by blood" I showedearlier that a ma%ority of the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel are most !robably in

the nations of Euro!e and North America" Some are !ossibly in Asia and Africa"

The English word church is said to deri#e from &ree yriaos or yriaon meaning (of

the lord)" I would argue that the word church comes from the &ree$ but from ylos by

way of atin circus$ for ring or circle" egardless$ nowhere in the New Testament is

either yriaos or ylos used for church in the original &ree language" The word usedis ecclesia" This word means (called out)$ e/ 6out: and clesia 6call:" This is e/actly what

the church is su!!osed to be but sadly is not in most cases" Instead it has become #icious

rings of cronies out for nothing but gain" ltimately these circles of friends will e#ol#e$ if

they ha#en)t already$ into the harlot"

In !ro!hetic language &od often de!icted sinful and wayward Israel as a harlot oradulteress" E*eiel cha!ter <J gi#es such a descri!tion" E*eiel =; de!icts the se!arate

ingdoms of Samaria or Israel and Hudah as the harlots +holah and +holibah

res!ecti#ely" The <st cha!ter of -osea euates the harlot &omer with &od)s bride anddescribes a rebellious Israel"

The woman in e#elation <= has been euated with Hews only and not all descendants of

Hacob nor the .hristian church because she is described as gi#ing birth to a child$ who is belie#ed to be .hrist" This is correct$ but Israel ga#e birth to .hrist$ and Israel includes

more than %ust Hews" It includes many !eo!le who ha#e lost the nowledge of their blood

lineage with Israel and !eo!le who ha#e become s!iritually bonded to Israel throughfaith"

The harlot and the bride of .hrist are associated with two cities in e#elation" The harlotre!resents Babylon 6e#" <908$ <:" The bride of .hrist$ most liely the woman of

e#elation <=0< is Herusalem as de!icted in e#elation =<0=" The fates of these two

women unfold in the last se#en years of this age before the return of .hrist" They are

eys and central guide!osts to #isuali*ing the e#ents in this !eriod nown as theTribulation"

This !eriod is widely belie#ed to be the 9Cth 2wee3 referred to by ?aniel 6?aniel @0=7,=9:" The !erson referred to as he in #erse =9 is commonly considered to be the

beastGAntichrist of e#elation" This #erse clearly shows this !erson to mae some ind of

treaty or co#enant with the world$ including Israel" The #erse shows it to be at the start ofa se#en,year !eriod$ the (wee)" This e#ent is usually euated with the white horse of the

first seal 6e#" J0<,=:" This figure a!!ears as a common figure of !eace" The fact that

there is no arrow with the bow of this figure has been inter!reted to mean this figure has

no real !ower to bring !eace and is false" Furthermore the red horse immediately



following shows this to be a false !eace or only a momentary !eace" It is not clear %ust

how long this !eace lasts" It may be for a few years or maybe less" It may be that the four

horsemen immediately !recede the 9Cth wee of ?aniel$ or Tribulation$ and are not !artof it"

The four horsemen of the A!ocaly!se a!!ear to be e/tensions of the four li#ing creaturesin hea#en" These seem to be what are nown as the four s!irits of hea#en and they a!!ear

to be mentioned in se#eral !laces of the Bible 6e#" 70J$ Oecheriah J08$ E*e" <08:" The

horseman is a standard symbol of Bible !ro!hecy" The four horsemen in e#elationre!resent s!iritual realities which are e/tensions of the four li#ing creatures at the throne

of &od" The horsemen in The Boo of Oechariah cha!ter J a!!ear to be the same as those

in e#elation" Oechariah a!!ears to gi#e a little more detail"

The four horsemen seem to herald the return of .hrist and come to destroy his enemies"

They could well be in fact disguised as the four main enemies of Israel$ but will destroy

them" All those that ha#e no real faith in .hrist might be fooled and destroyed by these

world forces and not see them for what they really are" Four main enemies of Israel are?an$ Edom$ Babylon and Egy!t" They a!!ear to re!resent res!ecti#ely0 self,#indication

and mis!laced *eal$ uncontrollable #iolence and constant warfare$ false law and lo#e ofmoney$ and the attem!t to attain eternal life and !aradise without and through &od and by

other means than re!entance and faith in Hesus .hrist"

ost belie#e that the white horse re!resents an antichrist crusader s!irit$ *ealous to fight

infidels and offenders and to defend the faith and fight for .hristianity" It a!!ears lie the

church" White can be seen to re!resent the church" The rider on the white horse himself

may not be e#il himself" -e is liely coming to destroy all those who are of theAntichrist$ who see to tae &od)s !lace and a#enge &od themsel#es by force" Oechariah

states that this horse goes to the north 6of Israel:" It also states it will a!!ease &od)s wrath

in the north 6Oech" J0J:"

Almost without uestion$ the red horse re!resents #iolence and war" ed is clearly the

color of blood" Edom 6Esau: is Hacob)s brother" Edom means (red)" Edom was #engeful$#iolent$ always ro#ing$ hunting and filled with unending and uncontrollable rage"

Oechariah doesn)t state where this horse goes" It seems to stay in the iddle East" They

seem to mean that there has been and will always be war in the iddle East$ at least until

the return of .hrist"

The blac horse most liely re!resents law and commerce" The scales he carries re!resent

law and baning 6or money changing:" The blac horse has been belie#ed to bringfamine" ather the #ision clearly shows that he brings artificially induced economic ruin

by hy!er inflation$ although this might be !reci!itated by some ind of food shortage"

Baners$ %udges$ lawyers$ !oliticians$ Pharisees$ !riests and religious legalists alltraditionally wear blac" The Babylonians were masters of statute law codes and

commerce" Oechariah states this horse goes to the north 6of Israel:" -e also states it will

a!!ease &od)s wrath in the north 6Oech" J0J:"



The green horse !robably re!resents false life and false !ros!erity" ost Bible

translations read (!ale) or (ashen) or (!ale green)" But the &ree word is chlorus$ which

means (green)$ hence chloride$ chloro!hyll$ etc" &reen is the color of !lants$ but also thecolor of sicness and disease" &reen is interestingly the official color of Islamic countries

today" It was !robably the color of Egy!t which once dominated o#er regions now

controlled by Islam" Also interestingly enough$ American money is green> The greenhorse of e#elation a!!ears to be the same as the (da!!le) horse of Oechariah" Oechariah

states this horse goes to the south 6of Israel:" Egy!t and all Islamic countries are to the

south of Israel" The green horse has authority o#er one fourth of the earth 6e#" J0:"Interestingly$ the followers of the religion of Islam com!rise a!!ro/imately one,fourth of

the earth)s total !o!ulation"

The horsemen in Oechariah are a bit different from those in e#elation" The maindifference is that in Oechariah there are chariots connected to the horses" There are no

chariots connected to the four horsemen in e#elation" The Bible tells us that the four

chariots re!resent the four s!irits of hea#en 6Oechariah J0<,8:" Oechariah shows us

se#eral horses of each color4 e#elation has only one horse for each color" In e#elationthe horsemen all ha#e riders but no chariots" In Oechariah only the red horse has a rider

6Oechariah <0:"

The horses and riders then a!!ear to be something other than s!irit$ that is flesh or

!erha!s e#il s!irits" And we all now where the flesh leads> If animals re!resent human !olitical mo#ements in !ro!hecy and humans re!resent religious institutions$ then the

horses and riders re!resent !olitical and religious forces fused and woring together$

church and state" Assuming this$ in Oechariah$ s!iritual forces guide the !olitical

mo#ements but these are not associated with religion" But in e#elation religion andgo#ernment are fused4 and there is no guiding s!irit anymore" The horses and riders no

longer ha#e a s!irit associated with them" This is clearly a bad thing$ since man is a fallen

creature" This may mean that at one time the four s!irits of hea#en were guiding menwhen they mo#ed about the earth" But in e#elation s!irits are no longer connected to the

mo#ements 6horse and rider:" This is surely destructi#e" The four riders of e#elation are

mo#ing$ but the s!irits might be assumed to ha#e remained at the Eu!hrates" So at onetime s!irits guided go#ernment and !olitical mo#ements$ e/ce!t !erha!s in Israel where

men were intimately in#ol#ed" There only men were in#ol#ed with go#ernments and only

.hrist was guiding them" But in the rest of the world the four s!irits were in#ol#ed" It

may be that at some !oint men will be left to themsel#es in religion and go#ernment andthis will ultimately be a disaster" It a!!ears that s!irits$ at least good ones$ will no longer

be guiding mo#ements of men" And this does not bode well"

Oechariah states that the horses !atrol the earth 6Oech" <0<C:" It also states where three of

the four colors of horses go" The white and blac horses go to the north 6of Israel: and the

strong da!!le horses 6assumed to be the ashen or 6!ale: green horse of e#elation: !atrolthe south" But the strong da!!le horses then reuest to !atrol the entire earth 6Oech" J09:"

No information is gi#en on where the red horse goes" It is found only in Israel or close to

Israel"



+nly the rider of the fourth horse of e#elation is gi#en a name" -is name of ?eath may

indicate that Satan directs this horse himself" This eerily hars bac to Satan)s acti#ities

mentioned in Hob 6Hob <09:"

If the four s!irits of hea#en are the same cherubim that were stationed to the east of Eden

and are the same angels bound at the Eu!hrates$ as well as the s!irits behind the fourcolors of horses$ then all of these #isions are somehow connected to guarding the way to

the tree of life" These s!irits are re#ealed to !atrol the earth but are stationed at the

Eu!hrates" It)s interesting to note that there is e#en a !lace called .herub in Babylon6E*r" =808@4 Neh"90J<:" Also$ if .herub is %ust a form of .hebar$ this is the #ery s!ot

where E*eiel saw the cherubim himself 6E*e" <0<:> .hebar has been shown by some to

be the same as -abor$ a ri#er in Assyria" It may be that these s!irits direct religious and

!olitical mo#ements" It may also be that they draw those mo#ements to the Eu!hrates"

It)s interesting that many !owerful rulers and em!ires were drawn to the Eu!hrates

region" Ale/ander the &reat set u! his court at Babylon$ where he died" ome is euated

with Babylon in e#elation" Persia absorbed Babylon into itself and made it its ca!itol"So the four s!irits of hea#en may act to guide human endea#ors as a function of guarding

access to the tree of life" It may be that false religions and e#il go#ernments are drawn tothe Eu!hrates$ !ossibly as a di#ersion" Notice also that there are always four em!ires

described in ?aniel)s #isions4 these may also be euated with the four s!irits of hea#en"

?aniel @0=9 maes clear that some im!ortant treaty or deal will be broen after tghree

and a half years" This may also in#ol#e the ten ings of e#elation 6e#" <90<=,<;:" Then

there a!!ears to be three and a half more years of tribulation which has been called the

&reat Tribulation$ a !eriod e#en referred to by .hrist himself 6att" =70=<:" .hrist refersto a!!arently the same e#ent as ?aniel did 6att" =70<84 ?an" @0=9:" Paul seems to be

referring to this also 6= Thess" =0;,7:" Hohn may also refer to this same e#ent 6e#" <;0<7,

<8:"

So the Bible seems to say that some #ery !owerful figure will grow in !ower and

influence resulting with some worldwide !eace or go#ernment" But the Bible also seemsto re#eal that this !owerful figure will not be com!letely !rominent and not all !owerful

for three and a half years after this treaty" This figure$ associated with the beast of

e#elation$ will be a!!arently under some amount of the control or influence of the

harlot 6e#" <90<,;:"

But then the beastGAntichrist and the ten ings will free themsel#es of the false church as

de!icted in e#elation <90<J,<9" The scene in e#elation <;0< a!!ears to be after thise#ent because the harlot is no longer riding the beast" Also$ the horns of the beast of

e#elation ha#e no crowns in <90;$ as they do in <;0<"

So to sum it u!$ the Bible seems to re#eal that some !owerful figure will be hea#ily

in#ol#ed in some worldwide treaty or system which in#ol#es many nations and includes

the nation of Israel and the false church" It will in#ol#e ten !owerful and influential

!ersons also$ !robably connected to royal bloodlines$ in the formation of some global



go#ernment" But after three and a half years$ the !owerful !ersons behind these e#ents

will come to the fore and be re#ealed as ten ings and the beastGAntichrist" It may then be

that wars$ famines$ !lagues and natural disasters will unfold in increasing se#erity andthis is what is re!resented by the other horsemen of e#elation"

It a!!ears liely that the rebuilding of the tem!le in Herusalem will be !art of thisworldwide deal broered by the beastGAntichrist" That the tem!le will be rebuilt in

Herusalem is made clear in e#elation <<0<,=" It clearly refers to the tem!le" So at some

!oint the tem!le is going to be rebuilt" This does not mean that it is &od)s will that thetem!le be rebuilt4 but it fulfills Bible !ro!hecy"

The deal broered by some !owerful figure in the future is a!!arently #ery im!ortant"

I)m sure this might mae many as %ust what it is that necessitates this deal" It may besome war or crisis" It would !robably be in the iddle East" It may in#ol#e oil and surely

will in#ol#e religion" The rebuilding of the tem!le would most liely be one of the terms

of such a deal" Bible !ro!hecy may #ery well hint at this and refer to times immediately

!receding or e#en during the final se#en years before the return of .hrist"

+ne !ossible e#ent leading u! to some worldwide !act is the destruction of ?amascus inSyria" Heremiah and Isaiah foretold of the fate of ?amascus 6Is" <90<,;4 Her" 7@0=;,=9:"

?amascus has ne#er been destroyed" So a!!arently these !ro!hecies ha#e yet to be

fulfilled" They may be some of the last !ro!hecies to be fulfilled before the return of.hrist" And this may be a ey to indicating %ust what taes !lace immediately before the

final se#en years of this age"

This would !robably in#ol#e some war in the iddle East" ?aniel describes e#ents at2the end time3 and this may refer to e#ents immediately !receding the final (wee) or

tribulation 6?an" <<07C,78:" As always$ it de!ends on how this !assage is inter!reted" The

!assage refers to three !owerful indi#iduals" There is one indi#idual who is widely belie#ed to be the beastGAntichrist" There are also two (ings)$ who may #ery well be two

of the ten ings in e#elation" These two in ?aniel are the ing of the north and the ing

of the south"

Parts of ?aniel foretold of e#ents that are commonly belie#ed to ha#e already come to

!ass" Some of these e#ents in#ol#ed ings of the north and south" In Bible language this

always means the nations to the north and south of Israel" This is a !attern of history thatre!eats itself" Bible !ro!hecy therefore often a!!ears to be fulfilled more than once$ or

increasingly fulfilled at #arious stages of history" Bible scholars ha#e been of the #iew

that some of the Boo of ?aniel was about the Seleucid em!ire 6Syria: to the north ofIsrael and the Ptolemaic em!ire 6Egy!t: to the south of Israel" But ?aniel clearly refers to

an end time$ so this !art of the boo deals with e#ents yet future 6?an" <<07C,78:" But

these e#ents are undoubtedly !art of a !attern of history that has e/isted for thousands ofyears"

What ?aniel may #ery well be referring to is an im!ortant battle or war in#ol#ing a

coalition of African and !erha!s Arab nations with one !rominent leader or (ing) and a



coalition of !erha!s Euro!ean and e#en American nations with one !rominent leader or

(ing) o#er them" The northern coalition !re#ails and subdues the southern one according

to ?aniel" But the leader of the north seems to withdraw with re!orts from the east andnorth$ which could be a breau! of the northern coalition or the rising !ower of !erha!s

.hina and Euro!e"

It may be that these end,time e#ents s!oen about by ?aniel may be a ey to

understanding how e#ents unfold %ust before the se#en,year tribulation" It maes sense

that for there to be some im!ortant global !eace or agreement$ that it would ha#e to benecessitated by some im!ortant e#ents" This would e/!lain the rebuilding of the tem!le in

Herusalem" So it a!!ears that a strengthened and em!owered Israel will rise from these

e#ents" But notice that Israel)s old enemies of Ammon$ oab and Edom will also remain

and !erha!s also be em!owered 6?an" <<07<:"

At some !oint$ three of the ten ings of e#elation are a!!arently going to be stri!!ed of

their !ower" This seems to be what ?aniel 90 refers to" It)s !ossible$ as I)#e said$ that this

has already ha!!ened$ !ossibly in World War I" For some reason$ the Antichrist and ingsunder his authority may see the need to stri! three world leaders of their !ower" This may

come after a war" It may be %ust for show$ to mae it a!!ear that the Antichrist and thoseallied with him are in control and in fa#or of !eace and the !unishment of those

res!onsible$ or made to a!!ear res!onsible$ for war" It)s not uite clear %ust when this will

tae !lace" It seems that it might come soon after the Antichrist is re#ealed" It a!!ears tocome after the harlot has been remo#ed and e#en after the beastGAntichrist comes to the

forefront of world e#ents" This would a!!arently be after the e#ent of e#elation <;0<

because the beast still has all ten horns at this !oint"

So what is the fate of the good woman of e#elation$ the bride of .hrist5 Again$ it

de!ends on the inter!retation" I belie#e the woman of e#elation <=0< is both true Israel

and the true church" If this is the case$ then the church will remain on earth during thetribulation and not be swe!t away from the earth$ ra!tured$ to safety to a#oid tribulation$

as has been the mainstream teaching of .hristian seminaries" They ha#e taught this under

the assum!tion that the woman of e#elation <=0< is only the Hewish nation"

Notice that this woman has a crown of twel#e stars" These undoubtedly re!resent the

twel#e tribes of Israel$ A TWELE$ not %ust one tribe" Technically the Hewish nation is

%ust the tribe of Hudah with Ben%amin absorbed into it" So if this woman is all of Israel$this includes the lost tribes$ which were scattered throughout the world" They are surely

within the church today" So then it follows that Israel and the church are inse!arable" And

it follows that this woman will undergo tribulation as re#ealed 6e#" <=0<=,<9:"

Twice$ e#elation cha!ter <= re#eals how long the woman will be !ersecuted and also

hel!ed" In #erse J we are told <$=JC days" This ha!!ens to be the same descri!tion of thetime the two witnesses !ro!hesy and control nature on earth 6e#" <<0;:" We are told this

amount of time more !oetically$ (time times and half a time) 6e#elation <=0<7:" This

!hrase is used also by ?aniel" It undoubtedly refers to the same e#ent 6?an" <=09:" Both



of these !eriods refer to three and a half years$ the &reat Tribulation" This ha!!ens to be

7= months$ the same amount of time that Herusalem is tram!led down 6e#" <<0=:"

The other woman of e#elation$ the harlot$ is the false church" This is a com!romised

church that acce!ts anyone and any doctrine" It has lost any !ur!ose regarding the true

gos!el of .hrist" It is a worldly and mainstream church with global reach as described inthe Bible 6e#" <90<8:" e#elation clearly tells us that the true church or true .hristians

will be !ersecuted by the false or harlot church" any true belie#ers will be e#en !ut to

death by the false church 6e#" <90J:"

e#elation cha!ter <9 also shows the harlot church in league with the beast" This church

is showy and immoral" It uses !olitics and the worldwide global system set u! by the

beastGAntichrist for its !ur!oses" This false church is associated with ystery Babylon$which re!resents false religion" e#elation <90@ clearly associates the false church with

ome$ which is built on se#en hills" So the false church will a!!arently be based in

ome" This is not to say that .atholics necessarily are false .hristians$ but that the

organi*ed .atholic .hurch will be totally corru!ted by this time" This church willdominate and will ha#e absorbed all other !rominent denominations as well" They will

ha#e com!romised for gain and combined into a su!er church" The real church willassumedly go underground and disa!!ear from !ublic #iew" The !olitical !owers will

!ersecute the true but hidden church 6e#" <90<7:"

But e#entually the beastGAntichrist and world leaders will also brea u! the false church"

This may be also for show" But &od)s word re#eals that the beastGAntichrist and world

leaders desire to end the false church 6e#" <90<J,<9:" They seem to desire an end of

!retense and ha#ing to answer to the false church" They a!!arently will want to dominatethe world o!enly and without any hindrance or contri#ance" And the same !assage

re#eals that the !ur!oses of the world system and beastGAntichrist will fulfill &od)s

!ur!oses in the destruction of the false church"

The fall of Babylon is further described 6e#" <:" It describes the wealth of the city and

ties it to sea trade" This also ties in to E*eiel =9 and =" These cha!ters show an as!ectof satanic !ower through trade and money" They describe a merchant em!ire filled with

the e#il !ride" This a!!ears to be a bit different from ystery Babylon" It may be actually

a re#i#ed Babylon in the same area where it originally was$ on the Eu!hrates in

eso!otamia" It seems different because the ings lament for this Babylon" Why wouldthey lament for it if they hated it5 So it a!!ears that there are more than one Babylon"

There seem to be three$ ystery Babylon$ commercial Babylon$ and military Babylon"

To summari*e the course of e#ents in the last se#en years of the !resent age$ this !eriod

most liely begins with some #ery im!ortant deal$ !robably a com!le/ worldwide treaty

or alliance" This is conce!tuali*ed by the rider on the white horse" There will !robablythen follow worldwide !eace for a few years" This will be rather a false !eace or

su!erficial !eace" Behind the scenes the false (harlot) church will uietly !ersecute and

e#en ill real .hristians" There will !robably be increasing unrest as a !owerful global



system headed by the beastGAntichrist figure and ten !owerful world leaders increasingly

consolidates !ower and clam!s down on any disobedience"

I belie#e that about three and one half years into this new world order there will be war in

hea#en as the Bible describes 6e#" <=09,@:" Satan will then be loced out of hea#en and

increase his acti#ities on earth" This war in hea#en will !robably ha#e re!ercussions onearth" Satan will tae his wrath out on manind and surely on .hristians" There may be

increased su!ernatural acti#ity" These times might be uite unlie anything human beings

ha#e nown since times dee! in manind)s !ast"

There is usually a lot of debate about %ust when the war in hea#en ha!!ens" Some belie#e

the war has already ha!!ened" Some thin this war occurred dee! in the !ast and e#en not

long after the creation of the uni#erse" any e#en belie#e, I thin erroneously, that Satanhas already been consigned to hell" But it seems that the Bible !retty clearly indicates

otherwise in many #erses"

I thin e#elation maes it clear that this war ha!!ens shortly before the return of .hrist"I would s!eculate that what might trigger this war is the Antichrist)s (resurrection) from

the dead" At this !oint$ Satan may belie#e he has !owers eual to &od and is in#incible"Then he will attem!t to tae o#er hea#en and all of creation"

At this !oint the world go#ernment will !ut down the false church" It will !robably be blamed for the world)s !roblems" True .hristians will still be !ersecuted$ but directly by

the world)s go#ernments" Three !owerful world leaders will then !robably be destroyed

or stri!!ed of !ower" Then the regular sacrifice in the rebuilt tem!le in Herusalem will be

sto!!ed by the unified world go#ernment and an image of the beastGAntichrist will be !laced in the tem!le" Then Hews will be !ersecuted along with .hristians" In fact a Hewish

*ealot may assassinate the Antichrist for halting the sacrifice in the tem!le" &od would

ha#e to allow the satanic resurrection of the Antichrist"

The unified world go#ernment under the !ower of the beastGAntichrist will then

im!lement a new monetary system" This will be based on a mar to be !laced on the handor forehead 6e#" <;0<J,<:"

What is the (mar of the beast)5 This is !robably one of the most ased uestions" The

he/agram$ or si/,!ointed star is a good guess" It is called the (Star of ?a#id) 6!robablyerroneously:$ but is also nown as the (Seal of Solomon) and is !robably of Egy!tian

origin and not a -ebrew symbol" Solomon was nown for ad#anced idolatry and may

ha#e worshi!!ed the he/agram or used it in satanic rites" The he/agram may be the (Starof em!han) Ste!hen was referring to %ust before his martyrdom 6Acts 907;:" This

a!!ears to be a talisman taen u! by the -ebrews out of Egy!t in the E/odus"

In Bible conce!ts$ a mar may not be necessarily !hysical" A mar on the forehead might

be one)s thoughts" A mar on the right hand might mean one)s wors" Since Satan should

not be underestimated as the master decei#er$ one must be careful to understand how one

might be mared" There might be either a !hysical mar or %ust a s!iritual mar" Some



might actually recei#e a !hysical mar" +thers might be mared by their refusal to obey

&od 6e#" <;0<J,<:"

The !ro!hecy says that no one can buy or sell without the mar" But it also says that no

one can buy or sell without the name of the beast or the number of his name" The name

and number of the beast a!!ear to be a bit different from the mar" So this may indicatethat there are both an actual !hysical mar and some other in#isible marer"

The Bible maes clear that not all will tae the mar 6e#" <70@,<<:" But there may bemany who don)t tae a !hysical mar$ yet are still mared s!iritually" In su!!ort of this$

notice that worshi!!ing the beast and his image a!!ear to be se!arate from taing the

mar$ but both bring the same !unishment" The &ree word for name$ onoma$ might be

taen figurati#ely as (character)" So the #erse might be taen as$ whoe#er taes on thecharacter of the beast will be condemned" In other words$ those who are of the same mind

and o!inion as the beast will be condemned"<

The death and destruction will continue with increasing se#erity" The two witnesses willa!!ear in Herusalem" They !robably will be blamed for troubles e/!erienced around the

world and caused by the Antichrist" Actually$ they will !robably ee! the world from totaldestruction$ with their control of nature" They may #ery well ee! true .hristians from

being destroyed by nature" This will go on for three and a half years" This is the !eriod of

time nown as the &reat Tribulation"

Hesus said himself that his return would be lie a (thief in the night)" But the Bible also

seems to say that his return would be seen by all" There seems to be a contradiction" Hesus

warned us to watch and be on the alert for his return" So clearly those who are diligentand faithful will not be sur!rised by .hrist)s return" -is return will be lie a (thief in the

night) for those who are not diligent and faithful"

At the end of this time$ the world)s armies will be amassing in total des!eration as

de!icted by &od)s word" I belie#e that e/actly at this time the Eu!hrates will be dried u!"

I thin this correlates e/actly to the release of the cherubim stationed at the Eu!hrates"Armies will then con#erge on Israel and Herusalem 6e#" @0<7,<84 <J0<;,<74 <@0<@:"

At this e/act time the two witnesses will be illed" But a few days later they will rise

from the dead" This will ha!!en %ust as .hrist returns" This will be on a uniue day$ !robably an ecli!se$ in which the sun and moon are darened" This is referred to by

Oechariah and atthew among others 6att" =70=@$ Oech" <70J,9" All of the dead in

.hrist will then rise from the dead at this time"

.hrist will immediately descend on the ount of +li#es and all true .hristians will be

transformed" This has been called the (ra!ture) of the church" It will !robably ha!!en as.hrist returns" -e will then stand with <77$CCC highly,fa#ored .hristians on the ount

of +li#es$ 6e#" <70<:" The ount of +li#es will s!lit in half during a massi#e earthuae

which is mentioned also by Oechariah and E*eiel$ as I showed earlier" The hill on which



Herusalem sits$ ount Oion$ will be changed and rise much higher than it is now" This is

!robably the e#ent referred to also by Isaiah 6Is" =0<,=:"

At this !oint a new age will ha#e begun" This is called the (illenium) 6e#" =C0J:" The

?e#il will be bound for a thousand years 6e#" =C0=:" But after this$ Satan will be

released and gather another army against Israel" -ere we see the nations of the worldunder the influence Satan" They are called (&og and agog)" any ha#e attem!ted to

!in!oint %ust who these nations are or where these lands are" But remember how the Bible

often refers to nations" It usually refers to a namesae ancestor lie agog" Butsometimes it refers to conce!ts lie destruction or rebellion$ !unishment or defilement" I

belie#e this is what the Bible is doing in a !hrase lie (&og and agog)" Heremiah the

!ro!het refers to Babylon as erathaim$ meaning (double rebellion) and Peod$ the name

of an Aadian !eo!le but which also means !unishment 6Her" 8C0=<:"<

After this will be a final %udgment" All accounts will be settled" Then the earth will be

remade" Herusalem will be remade" The bride of .hrist$ the woman of e#elation <=0<

will recei#e her beautiful wedding gift"

When will these things be5 That)s what e#eryone wants to now isn)t it5 When all thesethings ha!!en" Some things en#isioned ha#e already come to !ass" Some would argue

lie Preterists that all of the Bible has already come to !ass" But this seems doubtful" So

what then is the timeline for these awesome #isions5 We)#e got some idea of what the#isions are re!resenting" But when will they be5 -ow do we now5

The -oly Scri!tures gi#e some descri!tions of !eriods of time" But how are they all

lined5 What is the timeline5 It)s hard to say$ but the Bible seems to !ro#ide e#en someclues to that"

The best !oint of reference has been shown by countless Bible scholars$ to be se#en yearsof Tribulation$ the final (wee) of trial for the Hews re#ealed to ?aniel by the angel

&abriel 6?n" @0=9:" &abriel seems to relate that there will be a rebuilt tem!le in Herusalem

and that a leader will mae an im!ortant treaty" &abriel seems to say that this treaty will be broen and sacrifice will be banned in the tem!le" Some argue that this leader is .hrist

and he sto!!ed the sacrifice by his own death on the cross" But this is !robably in error" It

seems that this figure is the Antichrist" There is also an ob#ious mistaen belief that the

treaty is with the Hews" The Bible actually doesn)t re#eal who the treaty is with$ e/ce!tthat it will be many !eo!le"

It is easily assumed that something ha!!ens to cause a large !art of the earth)s !o!ulationto mae a treaty with the Antichrist" This is !robably a large war$ !erha!s World War III"

&abriel clearly states that this treaty is broen in (the middle of the wee)$ or after three

and a half years" So here we ha#e a fairly clear timeline of e#ents" There is a large warand a treaty made" Then the treaty is broen after %ust o#er three years"

It)s already been mentioned that there are some se#en,year !eriods in the Hewish calendar

that fit e/actly between the Hewish festi#al of osh -ashana 6Feast of Trum!ets: and



Dom Ki!!ur 6?ay of Atonement:" Interestingly$ many treaties ha#e been signed on Hewish

holidays lie osh -ashana" So this treaty mentioned by &abriel could #ery well ha!!en

on osh -ashana$ which would be in Se!tember or +ctober"

If the beast of the A!ocaly!se is identical with the Antichrist$ then there are some details

about the beast that gi#e some more information about the timeline of e#ents 6#" <;0<,84<90;,<;:" +ne has to loo #ery closely at some subtle differences to get this" It comes out

of the sea" I would say this indicates it deri#es its !ower from the sea$ hence sea trade"

But also I belie#e it is also correct that the sea re!resents gentiles$ as many ha#eobser#ed" Both !oint to a Euro!ean !ower"

The beast is gi#en !ower to continue for forty,two months$ which is only one half of the

se#en, year timeframe" So the beast seems to a!!ear halfway into the se#en years" Noticethat at this !oint the horns of the beast ha#e crowns" This seems to indicate that the ings

associated with the beast ha#e ingly !ower" But there are no crowns on the horns in the

descri!tion of the harlot riding on the beast" So the ings ha#e not a!!arently recei#ed

ingly !ower at that !oint" It seems then that the beast will be mostly concealed by thefalse church and in submission to it for the first half of the se#en,year Tribulation" Then

the ings will destroy the harlot church and rule with the beast" This almost certainly willha!!en midway in the Tribulation"

At this !oint something else ha!!ens" It seems that the Antichrist will be illed andresurrected$ or a faed death and resurrection is !er!etrated" The Bible seems to relate

that it is a real death and real resurrection" At about the same time another beast a!!ears

6#" <;0<<:" It a!!ears #ery much unlie the first beast" It is described as a lamb" But its

real nature is betrayed by its form of s!eech" Animals always seem to re!resent some !olitical entity and there is !robably no e/ce!tion with the second beast" The two horns

are most definitely the resurrected Antichrist and the false !ro!het" Notice that there are

no crowns on the horns" This most liely indicates that the second beast is not associatedto royalty" It also re#eals that the Antichrist 6at least when he is re#ealed: and the false

!ro!het are not of any royal bloodline" Some ha#e claimed this describes the nited

States$ as it has no lins to royalty" I would say this is a good guess$ but wrong4 it)s !robably the nited Nations"

The second beast comes out of the earth" The earth !robably re!resents Israel" Something

has caused the nited Nations or something lie it to come to Israel" The nited Nationsis usually in#ol#ed with !eaceee!ing" So something has ha!!ened to bring a

!eaceee!ing force to Israel" The Antichrist had come to !rominence a!!arently by some

#ery im!ortant !eace treaty" But it may not be com!lete and may not include e#eryone"This seems to be what is re#ealed to ?aniel$ !ossibly the !reincarnate .hrist himself 6?n"

<<07C,7<:" There may still be sirmishes going on in Israel and around the world$ e#en

after an im!ortant treaty is concluded"

The nited Nations will !robably be in#ol#ed with !utting down strife around the world"

Now ha#ing much to do with this will undoubtedly be the oabites$ Ammonites and

Edomites" Now who are they5 Where are they now5 Well$ it)s not always easy to see"



They)re !robably mi/ed in with %ust about e#ery nation on earth now" But they do a!!ear

more !rominently sometimes" They don)t ha#e their own autonomy$ as foretold by

E*eiel 6E*" =80,<<:" But in western countries they might be mistaen for Hews> TheHews may disagree$ but they are mi/ed and are unable to #erify any !ure genealogy since

9C A"?" This ind of !roblem is e#en well illustrated by Nehemiah and E*ra at the time

of the return from e/ile in Babylon"

The oabites$ Ammonites and Edomites are also undoubtedly mi/ed in with Arab

nations and are !robably a !art of the ruling classes in the iddle East" They are in#ol#edusually with trade and commerce around the world" It will !robably be that they will use

their connections to esca!e the !ower and control of the Antichrist" They might foment

unrest and alternati#es to the worldwide domination of the Antichrist and his system"

Footnotes

.ha!ter +ne0 The Three of s< Hohn ilton$ Paradise ost"

.ha!ter Two0 From Nothing to Something to almost Nothing

< E"W" Bullinger$ Number in Scri!ture0

.ha!ter Three0 What)s in a Name

< H.S <$ <@J7$ !" J@"

< -erodotus <" <C;,<C94 7" <

< The Brown,?ri#er,Briggs -ebrew and English e/icon$ -endricson Publishers$ Inc"Hune$ =CC7$ !" <9"

.ha!ter Four0 The Way

.ha!ter Fi#e0 Seeds

.ha!ter Si/0 The Nations in -istory

< See also I accabees <=0<@,=;"

= -erodotus; Pliny$ lib" 9$ c" 8J$ ?ionysius -alicarnassus$ lib" =$ Tacitus$ Annal" lib"<<"

7 Pliny$ lib" 9$ c" 8J$ ?ionysius -alicarnassus$ lib" =$ Tacitus$ Annal" lib"<<"

.ha!ter Se#en0 The End from the Beginning< -enri -ubert$ The -istory of the .eltic Peo!le$ Boo I !"@<$ =J8$ Boo II !" 97,

98"Bracen Boos <@@=$ ondon

.ha!ter Eight0 A Tale of Two Women

< S" Par!ola$ Neo,Assyrian To!onyms$ <@9C$ !!" =C,=< and " ?ietrich$ ?ie AramUer

SRdbabyloniens$ <@9C"



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The &eogra!hy of the Bible$ ?" Baly

-istory of the ongols$ Bertold S!uler

eligions of the Ancient Near East$ -" inggrenAssyrian and Babylonian .hronicles$ A"K" &rayson

-istory Begins at Sumer$ S"N" Kramer .hronicles of .haldean Kings$ ?"H" Wiseman

Ancient eso!otamia$ A"" +!!enheim

Babylonian -istorical,iterary Te/ts$ A"K" &raysonFoes from the Northern Frontier$ E" Damauchi

-istory of the Anglo Sa/ons$ Sir Francis Palgra#e

The Thirteenth Tribe$ Arthur Koestler

Studies in the esha Inscri!tion and oab$ A" ?earman$ ed"Te/tboo of Syrian Semitic Inscri!tions$ I$ H"."" &ibson

olech$ a &od of -uman Sacrifice in the +ld Testament$ H" ?ayThe &ermanic Peo!le0 Their +rigin E/!ansion and .ulture$ Francis +wenEssays on the Semitic Bacground of the NT$ H"A" Fit*myer

The -igher .riticism and the Lerdict of the onuments$ A"-" Sayce

Studies in ?aniel$ -"" &insbergDahweh Lersus Baal$ N"." -abel

The -istory of the .eltic Peo!le$ -enri -ubert

Dahweh and the &ods of .anaan$ W" F" Albright

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