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The Emekh Ha Melekh – The Exile of Judah to Babylon, the City of Wonders

 

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The Ancient Tower of Babel, believed to be the Foundation for the Babylonian Temple Ziggurat of Etemenanki 

The Exile of Judah to Babylon, the City of Wonders

The Prophet Jeremiah and the Five Guardians of Solomon’s Temple Treasures

Part Four

by Robert Mock MD

robertmock@biblesearchers.com

June, 2018

Section One 

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Topics

Mishnah 3

The Recording of the Mishnayots in Babylon

The Empire of Neo-Babylon

The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Booty taken from the Temple of Solomon

The Princes of Judah

The Destiny for the Vessels of the House of the Lord in Babylon

The Fabled City of Babylon that Nebuchadnezzar II built

The Palaces of Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II and his Golden Empire

The Walls of Babylon

 Introduction 

The story of the Five Guardians in the Emeq HaMelekh, protecting the Treasures of Solomon’s Temple, brings us to the city of Babylon where Shimur Ha Levi, Haggai the Prophet, Zechariah the Prophet son of Iddo, Zedekiah, Hezekiah plus Ezra and Baruch the scribes record their hiding locations on parchment, copper, and two giant white marble tablets. 

Living in the most glorious city of the then known world, they become acquainted with former residents of the Nation of Israel, which were fast becoming part of the Lost Tribes of Israel, known in part later as the Cimmerians and the Saki.  

On the Behistun Inscription north of Babylon the Saki were later described.  When they first approached the city of Babylon, they walked through the Ishtar Gate, passed by the Palaces of the king, the walls of Babylon up to 300 feet tall, and the Temple of Etemenanki thought to be built over the ruins of the Tower of Babel. Nearby was the Hanging Gardens, a mountain of vegetation built with only bricks and bitumen, creating lakes, rivers and a jungle like forest. 

Daniel and his three government assistants, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were living in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II, when the king sought the extermination of all the Magi and Chaldeans unless they could tell him about his dream. Daniel in a vision was shown the dream and the interpretation of a large image made with gold, silver, brass, iron and clay and eventually destroyed by a large Stone made without hands. 

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Daniel speaking with King Nebuchadnezzar about the Vision of the Great Image

 Illustration of Daniel telling about the Giant Image © Justin Creative Group. Used by permission. 

The image in the dream evolved into a large Statue or Colossi of Nebuchadnezzar of solid gold erected for a Grand Celebration, during which the lives of the three friends of Daniel were threatened when they were thrown into a fiery furnace.

This was getting serious.  Wipe out the whole echelon of royal advisors was within the power of Nebuchadnezzar and his edict was indicative of his disturbed human mind. This edict was not just to those sitting in the court of the king at that time but to all the Magi in the whole land of Babylon.   

Daniel was not in the king’s court at the time of this confrontation.  He was presented with the edict of the king by Arioch, the king’s captain of the royal guard.  With great diplomacy and almost assuredly a palpitating heart, he asked Arioch, the king’s captain to request of the king a short time to summon the G-d of his fathers for a special revelation. What courage!  What faith! 

Daniel was not skilled in oracular revelations.  But he had faith that the Lord of host, the G-d of his forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would honor this request. With his friends, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, they entered into a special prayer season with their One G-d of the Universes. 

In a dream, while asleep, Daniel was revealed not only the dream of the king, but the meaning. The Lord of hosts was speaking with Daniel as a conduit for the revelations of the Most-High G-d. What was most important to Daniel and the Guardians was the location of the vessels that belonged to the House of the Lord, which were placed in the Temple of Esagila.

Dedicated to Jupiter the god of Babylon who was called Marduk, a large golden statue stood in the temple almost identical to the statue of Nebuchadnezzar erected on the Plain of Dura.

In reality, Babylon had three Wonders of the Ancient World, the Hanging Gardens, the Tower of Babel recreated, and a Colossi Statue which competed with the Colossi Memnon and the Colossus at Rhodes.

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These are the Vessels that were taken by (buried in) the ground: the locking rods, the pegs, the boards, the rings, the standing pillars of the courtyard. These are the Vessels: 1,200,000 (1200*) silver Mizrakot (sacrificial basins); 50,000 (50*) Mizrakot of fine gold; 600,000 (600*) (?) of fine gold, and 1,200,000 (1200*) of silver. These five [men] inscribed these Mishnayot in Babylon together with the other prophets that were with them, including Ezra the Cohen, the Scribe.

*Numbers may be off by a factor of 103 due to translation so 100,000 may actually be 100.

 See commentary on Numbers in the Mishnayots

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Here is the inventory of these treasures.  The place of hiding is unknown, yet the inscription of this hoard was first recorded in these Mishnayots in the great City of Babylon:

The locking rods, the pegs, the boards, the rings, the standing pillars of the courtyard.

1,200,000 (1,200) silver Mizrakot (sacrificial basin)

50,000 (50) Mizrakot (sacrificial basins) of fine gold.

600,000 (600) (unclear word - talents?) of fine gold

1,200,000 (1,200) (talents?) of silver. 

The curtained outer court of the Wilderness Sanctuary (Mishkhan) was assembled as a portable barrier to define the purified and holy area upon which the Sanctuary of the Lord was to be erected.  Here were the standing pillars of the courtyard, including the pegs, boards, rings and the locking rods. 

Where the location of this hiding area is, was not revealed.  Yet in this same location was a hoard of gold and silver bullion possibly defined in term of weight of a talent of approximately 75 pounds. Included at this hiding place also were the sacrificial basins used in the temple sacrifices.  In this modern era, the value and thereby the scarcity of these two precious metals was about 10:1.  

From every documentation in the Egyptian empire, silver was more valuable in relationship to gold.  Yet in all the Mishnayots, King Solomon must have had mining access to silver that was unknown to the Pharaoh’s of Egypt as all the articles or vessels created for the temple of the Lord showed at least a 2:1 ratio of silver to gold.  

As we shall later see, the walls of Babylon will be recipient site of a hoard of treasures brought by the Jewish captives to Babylon and secreted there for safekeeping until the Time of the End. There is no indication that this hoard of treasures was placed in the modern kingdom of Iraq, whereas the recording of these treasures was completed in Babylon.   

The Recording of the Mishnayots in Babylon 

The Mishnayots we are reading, were not written by the Rabbabim in the 2nd and 3rd centuries when the Mishna was composed but as recorded they have a far more ancient heritage.  According to the 2nd Maccabean account, assuming that the mishnayots of Emeq HaMeleck are the true “records”, were written prior to the first Chanukah celebration about 165 BCE.  

This festival, called the Festival of Lights, was instituted by the Maccabean rulers celebrating the restoration and purification of the Temple of Zerubbabel after it had been desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes IV when he sacrificed a pig on the altar in the Holy Place.  According to these Mishnayots, they were written and recorded between 586 BCE and 520 BCE, according to conventional historical Gregorian calendar years.  Yet in the Jewish calendar, the White Marble Tablets were written in the year from Adam 3331. 

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The Restoration of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon by Saddam Hussein

This would correlate to the conventional year of 428/429 BCE.  Yet, according to the rabbinic calendar, the Seder Olam Rabbah, the first deportation of Jewish young men, scholars and business men was in 421 BCE, seven to eight years later. 

When these five Jewish Tzaddiks (righteous ones), wrote these mishnayots, they were living in Babylon, who with Ezra the Cohen (priest) were still in captivity in Babylon.  We do not know if all of these men were taken as captives along with Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were taken in the first deportation of 605 BCE (421 BCE in the Seder Olam Rabah, the rabbinic calendar. Who were the other prophets that were with them?  To date we have no other revelation on these persons. 

The Empire of Neo-Babylon


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The Behistun Inscription – the Persian Rosetta Stone 

The country in which Daniel and his friends were taken as captives, was land renowned for its antiquity, but in reality, they were really a new country and a new city.  It was a marvelous city, undergoing massive reconstruction, with beautiful temples and splendid palaces and a city that visitors marveled at the curious gardens. 

Evoking the ancient wonders of the Sumerians, the Chaldeans living in the parched and arid land along the Euphrates valley had been recently conquered by the Assyrians and the city of Babylon was leveled to the ground. Soon they were to become the rivals to the Assyrians for power in the Mesopotamian valley. 

Besides, they had an axe to score with their brutal Assyrian masters. With the weakening of the Assyrians who were menaced by the Scythians, the Semitic cousins to the Lost Israelites, the Medes, who were soon to ascend and form the Persian empire, and the Cimmerians, who many historians feel were the resettled tribes of the Nation of Israel in the Armenian highlands; Babylon soon took advantage of her weakened nemesis.   

It is fascinating to note as ancient history is now being revisited that the Children of Omri, the father to King Ahab, who were called the Ghomerians, the Greek Kimmerioi later the Khumerians, would as some linguists suggest, would later be known as the Cimmerians.  

In the ancient Sumerian language, which the Chaldeans and the Assyrians were descendants, biblical suffix i when applied to a person means “a native of”.  Therefore; Gileadi meant a native of Gilead. When this is applied to the in habitants of the Nation of Israel, we call them Israeli.  

Whereas the inhabitants of the ancient Nation of Israel (House of Israel) were known by some of their most famous kings, such as King Omri, father of Ahab, they were also known by their ancestors, such as Isaac. As the ancient prophecy said, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called (or named).”  (Gen 21:12, Romans 9:7) As the “sons of Isaac” over the centuries they were called the Saki, Sacae, Sacchi, Sakasani, Beth Sak, Saxones, Sachsen, and Saxons.  


The Behistun Inscription in the Center of the Mountain Cliff 

The most famous ancient inscription is the Behistun Rock on a cliff along the road between Hamadan in Iran and Baghdad in Iraq, near the town of Bagastana; near the homeland of Daniel or the ‘place where the gods dwell’.  On this cliff, Darius the Great was recording his victories, an inscription not understood until Sir Henry Rawlinson deciphered it in 1840. 

On this massive inscription about 100 feet high and 150 feet wide, there were several references to the former inhabitants of Israel.  Twenty-eight times the word Kana, depicted the land of Canaan was written, including a man called “Sarocus the Sacan’ wearing a Hebrew hat.  

Under the list of nations is “Saka” which in the Persian and Elamite language means the same as Gimri or Ghomri in the Babylonian language. Yes, even the dispossessed tribes from the Land of Israel would wreak havoc upon the nation that caused their exile.

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The Palace Walls of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

It was the Chaldean king Nabopolasser (626-605 BCE), who started a rebellion against Assyria in 626 BCE and by 612; he conquered the capital of Assyria in Nineveh and crushed the empire of the last king of Assyria.  

On the banks of the Euphrates River, on July 25, 616 BCE, Nabopolasser defeated the forces of the king of Assyria just south of Harran.  Situated on the trade route from the Mediterranean to the heart of Assyria, this ancient city of Harran was built by Abram and Terah when they fled from Nimrod. This city was named after the brother of Abram; Harran and at this town, Terah, an oracular Sumerian priest, built a temple to the Sumerian moon god Sin. 

The Babylonians, combining their forces with the Median ruler Cyaxares began to attack the Empire to Assyria, first at Aššur in 614 and two years later, Nineveh was destroyed. With the loss of their two capitals, it would seem that the time of the Assyrians was over.  Yet a new renegade Assyrian king, Aššur-uballit, made his new capital and kingdom at Harran in rebellion to Nabopolassar and newly arisen Babylonian empire. 

As recorded in the  Fall of Nineveh Chronicle, Nabopolassar 'marched to Assyria victoriously' in the fifteenth year of his reign (612 BCE) and Aššur-uballit’s forces fled the city of Harran in exile. A treaty between Assyria and Egypt was invoked and Pharaoh Necho of Egypt (610-595) sent a large military force to the north to assist the Assyrian prince in his claim to the crumbling Assyrian empire. 

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The Palace Walls of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 

It was in route to Harran that the beloved Judean king Josiah met Pharaoh Necho seeking to halt this advance.  We ask the question, why?  In the next chapter, we will see the link between the Saki, the deported Israelites sent to the heart of the Assyrian empire by Ashurbanipal and the tribe of the Mandi, whose newly risen leader Cyaxares of the Medes who was now in league with the Babylonian ruler Nabopolasser.  Was King Josiah seeking to align himself with Cyaxares against Pharaoh Necho? 

It was in 605 BCE, Nabopolasser’s son, Nebuchadnezzar II, (Nabu-Kudurri-usur, 'O Nabu, protect the son'), the reigning crown prince, and commander of the Imperial forces and co-regent to the throne, was conducting his first Syrian campaign.  

With the overthrow of the Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar also rounded up the Egyptian allies, and thereby the Kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem were captured in 605 BCE, the 4th year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. To the Babylonians, this was actually Jehoiakim’s 3rd year, for they did not count the first partial year of rule as the first year on the throne, like the Hebrew chroniclers, who counted the regnal years of their kings.  

Nebuchadnezzar II was in Judah, preparing Daniel and the hosts of royal sons and noble friends to be taken back to Babylon, when news came of his father, Nabopolaser’s death. Taking the swift route directly across the desert by camel and steed, he raced back to Babylon to secure his throne.  Nebuchadnezzar was actually marching against Egypt, a nation who was also trying to reassert her ancient legacy to power.  

Taking the swift route directly across the desert by camel and steed, he raced back to Babylon to secure his throne.  Nebuchadnezzar was actually marching against Egypt, a nation who was also trying to reassert her ancient legacy to power. 

The Immense Imperial City of Babylon 

Following slowly behind with Nebuchadnezzar’s main forces, we find Daniel and the three worthies plus thousands of the best students and warriors of the Nation of Judah accompanying the first captured vessels of the temple of Solomon making their way as captives across the Fertile Crescent. They were destined to become a part of the greatest commercial enterprise in the ancient world.  As they approached the city of Babylon, they were greeted with the immense walls of a city that dwarfed the size of Jerusalem.   The Ishtar Gate had not been built and the palace of the king’s father was still the palatial residence of Nebuchadnezzar II. 

To understand the world of Daniel, the three worthies and the Jewish deportees to this land, one must know the empire built by King Nebuchadnezzar, under the religio-political realm which he governed.  This was the land that demanded grandiose dreams to maintain one’s accession to the throne. The fertile mind of Nebuchadnezzar, was the source of oracular visions, evoking a great image which the G-d of Abraham used as the prophetic model to show a Hebrew seer and Chaldean in the court of Nebuchadnezzar the future empires that would soon arrive. These visions in this emperor’s mind would also show the prophetic history of the Jewish people until the Time of the End.

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The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Booty taken from the Temple of Solomon to Babylon

The Exile of Judah to Babylon, the City of Wonders

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 According to the diary of Daniel, his last days in Jerusalem were recorded as such: 

Daniel 1:2 - “And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god.”

This obviously does not record the emotions and insecurities of the young prince, who was a royal descendant of King Hezekiah.  Recording this event in later years as a wise and aged court counselor, former prime minister of Babylon, the most noteworthy record was not the emotional trauma upon the psychic of the country and the devastation of losing the brightest youth in the land; but what was the destination of the sacred relics that belonged within the House of their G-d, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

Even the royal court scribes in Jerusalem recording these events, after eulogizing one of the greatest of the Judean kings, Josiah, declined to make any record of the reign of Josiah’s son, Jehoiakim, because “he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. (I Kings 23:37)  

To the Hebrew scribes, the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar was not just a coincidence; for they stated; “The Lord sent against him (Jehoiakim) bands of Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by his servants the prophets” 

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The Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II

The armies of Nebuchadnezzar were a mixed army, bolstered by the Syrians, Amorites and Moabites living to the east of Jerusalem and rivals to the power of Judah. But why? The dissention with the city of Jerusalem was because many in the royal courts were not seeking independence with the G-d of Abraham as their leader.   Rather they were content to settle with what they felt was the lesser of two evils, domination by Egypt rather than domination by Babylon.  The same geo-politics is seen to today in the Nation of Israel.

Yet the capture of Jerusalem was not because Jehoiakim was an independent thinker. He was not a rebel or a political chameleon that did not have the political skills to effectively pit the sympathizers of the Egyptians against those that advised allegiance with the Babylonians.  No, it was rather because of Jehoiakim’s grandfather, Manasseh: 

I Kings 24:3-4 - “Surely, at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of the His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.”  

The son of Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin was no better, for he also did evil in the sight of the Lord and the story was repeated.  In 597 BCE, Jehoiachin, instead of flagrant rebellion, he went out to meet Nebuchadnezzar and he and his family were taken prisoners. 

This time almost all the gold remaining in the Temple of the Lord plus all the treasures that were left in the House of God had been taken back to Babylon.   

2 Kings 24: 8,13 - “Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.” 

For a second time, the Lord gave the people of Jerusalem reprieve. Twenty years after his first campaign against the Judeans, this time in the reign of King Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar returned with his armies the third time.  

2 Kings 25:8-10 - “And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.”

The city was ransacked.  The Temple, already stripped of its remaining treasures and most of its precious metal vessels and utensils in past campaigns, only had remaining the bronze vessels that were still being used in the service of the Temple. 

2 Kings 25:13-17 - "The bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon. They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered. The fire pans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.  

The two pillars, one Sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze.  The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.  (See also 2 Chron. 35:7, 36:18-19) 

This invasion into Judah in the year of King Jehoiachin, has been archeologically preserved in a clay tablet called the “Babylonian Chronicle”.  Here is a summary from the archives of King Nebuchadnezzar recorded in the eighth year of his reign:  

Babylonian Chronicle – “…Encamped against the city of Judah and on the second day of the month of Addaru, he seized the city and captured the king.  He appointed there a king of his heart, received its heavy tribute and sent (it) to Babylon.”

 This same account was recorded by the royal chroniclers of Judah:

 II Kings 24:12-13, 15, and 17 – “…the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him (Jehoiachim) prisoner. 

And he carried out from there all the treasure of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house…and he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon…then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his palace, and changed his name to Zedekiah.”  

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The Babylonian Chronicle

Jeremiah, the prophet, a lone voice who urged the king, his grandson, to submit to the submission of the yoke of Babylon, now watched the final scenes of Jerusalem’s demise. He already was viewed as a Babylonian sympathizer and a traitor to Judah. As such he was thrown into a dungeon awaiting his own death. Saved by a Babylonian, he lived to record his own account of the last hours before Jerusalem’s destruction. 

Jeremiah 27:19 - “For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the Sea, concerning the carts, and concerning the remainder of the vessels that remain in this city, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.   

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The Palace of Nebuchadnezzar II

Yes, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem: “They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them, says the Lord, “Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.’”

Here we see a prophecy.  The vessels were to be a sign and an indicator at a future date as to when the Lord of hosts would again revisit His people.  Note carefully, the Lord of hosts states with great care that the vessels in the House of the Lord did not follow the Jewish people into captivity but rather the Jewish people followed the vessels to the land of their captors. 

So also, the Lord of hosts promised that He would restore those same vessels back to His home in Jerusalem and the people would follow the vessels back. That is if they chose to return. 

Carefully consider this at the Time of the End.  The Lord of hosts has already given in the prophets, who the vessels the Lord of hosts will be using as His mark of divine involvement during the closing days of this earth’s era. 

The vessels will become living vessels.  Israel and Judah have been spoken many times as a “Pot” or “Vessel” in which the Lord of hosts as the Potter is molding and shaping for His use before the Great Day of the Lord.  

When we see the beginning of the restoration of the House of Judah and then the House of Israel back to the Land of Israel; the Gentile believers in Yehoshua the Prince of David will have a great sign that the Lord of hosts is about to intervene His will into the history of man.  

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Nebuchadnezzar surveys his works in a New Year's Day Procession in Babylon by Peter Jackson

The Princes of Judah 

Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were taken as the Judean elite, the ones (Daniels 1:4) “in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.”  

Of royal blood and noble birth, they were to be trained for government service and for the last nineteen years before the destruction of the Temple of Solomon, these four princes were studying geopolitics, international relations, political science in the halls of the greatest empire on earth. 

Their names, Daniel, Hanani-yah, Mishael, and Azari-yah invoking honor to their God, ‘El’ and ‘Yah’, were changed to Belteshazzar, Shadrack, Meshach and Abed-Nego in honor of Bel, the god Marduk, Aku, the moon god, and Nego or Nabu, the crown prince son of Marduk.  As Isaiah stated, (Isaiah 46:1) “Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.”    

Yet according to the story as told by Daniel, (Daniel 1:8) “He (Daniel) purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank.”

They would serve in whatever capacity the Lord of hosts would choose to give them to serve, but they would still serve their G-d. There they watched as the armies would head to Syria and then they would witness their return with Jewish captives. 

These captives returning also through the Ishtar Gate of Babylon would include the young teenage king Jehoiachin with his family (2 Kings 24:10-16) and several years later King Zedekiah, blinded after all his sons, the royal heirs, were slaughtered in his presence. (2 Kings 25:7)

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The god Marduk and his Dragon-Snake 

Daniel and his three friends lived in the palace of the king.  This was where all the royal business and governmental official duties were performed. The atmosphere within the palaces was awe inspiring and it took great spiritual fortitude to be loyal civil servants to a foreign king, and at the same time know exactly where their spiritual roots were; to the G-d of Abram their forefather.   

As royal officials, they dutifully and quietly did their official duties.  As the elite of the scholars in the Royal Academies, they soon became members of the elite guild called the Chaldeans, who served as royal advisors and were instructed in the mysteries of the astronomical and earthly sciences in the temple schools of higher learning and the ziggurat observatories in the land of Babylon.   

According to Daniel, he watched as a silent observer, a civil servant, serving inside the government offices which were built within the palace of the king.  There he observed with almost a protective instinct the destiny of the vessels of God’s house that were brought to Babylon and placed in the Temple of Esagila, the temple of Marduk.  What he did not see were the furnishings, the Ark of the Covenant, neither the Menorah nor the Altar of Incense. 

Daniel 1:2 - “And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god.” 

The Fabled City of Babylon that Nebuchadnezzar II built 

What remained of the vessels of the House of the Lord, after the entire furnishings of the Wilderness Tabernacle, the furnishings within the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies were hidden by Jeremiah and the Five Commando Guardians, the rest were carried to Babylon during three different military campaigns by the forces of Nebuchadnezzar. 

605 BCE - The initial vessels taken from the Temple of Jerusalem were selected to be sent to the museum archives of the Temple of Marduk.  There in Babylon, the vessels went along with the chief of the royal sons, the elite and the thinkers in the land of Judah.  It can be assumed that the best of the remaining vessels that had not been hidden by Jeremiah and the five guardians of the temple treasures were sent to Babylon at this time. (Daniel 1:1-2) 

597 BCE - When King Jehoiachin and his family were taken as prisoners after their switch of allegiance to the Egyptians, most of the rest of the vessels of precious metals were taken. (2 Kings 24:12-13) 

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 The Clay Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II - British Museum

586 BCE - The city was burned and razed, the temple was destroyed and the remaining vessels, mainly of bronze as well as the Bronze Sea, the Bronze Pillars in front of the Temple were taken at the capture of King Zedekiah. (2 Kings 25:13-17)

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Brick of Nebuchadnezzar - British Museum

The land of Babylonia owed its prosperity to its vital and strategic position along the important Mesopotamian trade routes.  The city of Babylon was strategically positioned near the north-south Tigris River trade route from Assyria to the Persian Gulf.  It also straddled the Euphrates trade route going to the west and the eastern trade route going to Iran via the Zagros Mountains.   

Babylon was not only the capital of the country of Babylonia, but also its religious center. It became the most populous city of the Near East under Nebuchadnezzar II. Its fame became one of legends with its showcase strength in its massive walls, the famed ziggurat reputed to have been built on the site of the more ancient Tower of Babel, the opulent Ishtar Gate, the magnificent temples and the fabled Hanging Gardens, recognized as one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. 

The word, Babylon, comes from Babel, which is noted only once in the Vulgate in Genesis 11:9, which is derived from the Hebrew word, batal, meaning ‘to confound’. Outside the Bible, Babylonia is found in Baruk 1:1,4, 2:22, 6:1-3, 1 Maccabees 6:4, and II Maccabees 8:20. 

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Tiamet, one of the Stellar gods of Babylon that in the Cosmic Collisions of the Ancient past were part of the creation of Planet Earth with the Great Seas that surrounded it.

To the Babylonian citizens, their name comes from the Chaldean word, bab-ilu, meaning the ‘gate of G-d.”  Even so, the local citizens called themselves, Ka-dingir, Babi-dingir, Tintir, and Shu-an-na, for ancient Babylonia was called by its inhabitants Dingir.  

It is interesting to note that an inter-testament Jewish book, found in the Apocrypha was titled; Daniel and Susanna. This name is so similar to the word the Babylonians called themselves, Shu-an-na. To the Hebrew prophets, the inhabitants of Babylon were called ‘daughters of the Chaldeans.’ (Isaiah 47:1) and also Sesach or Sesac. (Jeremiah 25:26)

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The Palaces of Nebuchadnezzar 

Within the ruins of Babylon, the archeologists found this clay cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II.  Here it describes three palaces built for the king.  The first was a remodeling of the palace of his father’s, Nabopolasser (625-605 BCE) which according to the record had become in disrepair. It was a good historical renovation project, but not fit for the megalomania grandeur that the new king was beginning to envision for himself.  So; on the northern edge of Babylon, he built a new palace that had a blue parapet and was surrounded by massive fortifications. 

Later in his reign, Nebuchadnezzar after erected the triple wall and tower fortifications around the city, built a third palace overlooking the Euphrates River.  This was his ‘summer home’ with the same ventilation shafts still used today for cooling houses in the Near East.  All the palaces were built with baked bricks, sealed with bitumen, while the roofs and door frames were constructed of imported cedar, cypress and fir.  

The newer southern palace of Nebuchadnezzar was constructed around five courtyards which included the king’s private quarter and the quarters for his harems. Within the palace was a throne room and in two rooms behind the throne room were two oblong and one central square well shafts.  At the top of the shaft was a wheel with a long line of pottery buckets that brought water up an oblong shaft, and the buckets would descend down the opposite oblong well shaft.  

The central square shaft was an inspection shaft for cleaning and repairs.  Animals or human slaves provided the power to move the water buckets up and down this brigade.

King Nebuchadnezzar. 

Within the palace is also an anteroom, where officials and nobles who sought the audience of the king could go through a ritual washing plus enhancing their person with fragrances before entering the presence of their ruler; who had become sacred and deified in their land. 

Drains were found in the floor of the anteroom, made by clay pots in which the bottoms were removed and bricks set on end to form a rim basin. 

The Walls of Babylon 

It was the walls of Babylon that gave it its image of strength and impregnability.  Built around what was believed to be the decaying and tumbled down site of the ancient Tower of Babel, according to Herodotus, the walls were 300 feet high and 80 feet thick and built with an additional 35-foot deep wall foundation.  The inner walls were “not so thick as the first, but hardly less strong.”  In all the walls supported a concourse wide enough to allow a four-horse chariot room enough to turn around.  

Today, the archeological site of ancient Babylon is near the present town of Hille, revealing a city of about five square miles though Herodotus claims that the city was 14 square miles while the walled city was eleven miles in circumference. 

It is estimated that Nebuchadnezzar II used 15 million baked bricks in the official buildings of his new empire.  The bricks were large, one-foot square, separated by three to four inches of mortar and were embossed or written the name of the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who cares for Esagila and Ezida, eldest son of Nabopolasser, king of Babylon”. 

Around this city was a double or possible triple wall, with over 250 guard towers and eight massive gates that were centered along this thick wall of only brick and bitumen mortar.  It was the Torah and contemporary cuneiform inscriptions that assigned a very great age to the city.  In Genesis 11:1-9, it testified to a command to the citizens, "Let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar."  

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Fragment of Ishtar Gate, Babylon, in the Istanbul, Museum of the Ancient Orient

Outside the walls was a deep moat which in times of siege could be flooded by opening up the gates of the Euphrates River and sealing off the perimeter from the enemy forces. Overall there were about 100 brass gates; twenty-five of them were connecting the inner city with the Euphrates which flowed directly through the city on a diagonal route. 

As Daniel and the first captives from the city of Jerusalem entered the city, they walked into the city from the north going first past a special festival house called the Bit Akitu and then taking a gentle incline, they were paraded down “Processional Way”, called the Aibur-shabu, or “the enemy shall never pass”.   

Flanking to the right was the imposing Northern Palace and to the left the looming military bastion. They continued to proceed onward towards the dazzling blue tiled Ishtar gate with tile baked winged lions with white or yellow manes or yellow with red manes imbedded in the dark blue tile work, the color of the royal blue stone, lapis lazuli. 

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Horned Bulls on the Gate of Ishtar 

The roadway was laid with huge flagstones of limestone each with an inscription of the dedication by Nebuchadnezzar II and on either were side slabs of rebeccia with white veins of minerals cascading through the mineral slabs mounting the walls.  The sights were awe-inspiring with luxury and grandeur to behold. The processional way was also lined with about 120 lion statues, symbolizing the goddess Ishtar and horned bulls were imposed on the walls in molded glazed bricks.  

Once they passed by the Ishtar Gate, they then marched past the Southern Palace, down a sloping street to the eight-storied ziggurat tower and the temple complex that surrounded this massive ziggurat tower, called the Etemenanki. Within the city they were confronted with a site which caused memories of revulsion within their own city of Jerusalem. One hundred eighty statutes dedicated to Ishtar were placed in strategic locations within in city, along with a total of 53 temples. 

Was it not their king, Manasseh who allowed statutes and altars to be placed throughout Jerusalem which according to the most famous prophet in the city, Jeremiah, was to be the cause of the eventual overthrow of the city of Jerusalem?

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The Ruins of Ancient Babylon with Nearby Restored Walls of Babylon by Saddam Hussein 

II Kings 22:4-6 - “He (Manasseh) built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, ‘In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.  And he made his son pass through the fire (of Molach) and observed times and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.”  

The city was crowded with row after row of houses two to three stories in height whose flat roofs were buttressed with timber, packed with slime and mud. Whereas the Processional Way was paved, throughout the city, the new arrivals would become well acquainted with the 24 streets which made a grid across the city.

They were narrow with a width of four to twenty feet with high windowless walls on either side.  Packed with raw dirt, the Jerusalemites soon found out that these streets were the dumping ground for the city garbage.  After a certain amount of debris would pile up in the street, they would pack more clay on top of it. 

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The Walls of Ancient Babylon the Great

Over the years, the street would get higher and higher, eventually meaning that they soon had to walk down into their houses from the progressively elevating streets. For the poor within the city, in which wood for building construction was a luxury, there were built circular mud-brick huts, supported by a central support pole and walls packed with a mixture of reeds and mud. 

The aristocrats and the nobles in the city had houses and palaces with separate bath areas where they could refresh themselves from the intense heat or to anoint themselves with oils and fragrances.  Any bathing by the common residence was done on the banks of the canals that ran through the city or the courtyard cisterns.

The bathroom of a noble was usually about 15 feet square and constructed on the southern end of the house.  The lower part of the walls and the floor were baked bricks and the floor was surfaced with a smooth layer of a composition of bitumen and powdered limestone.  It was delicately sloped to the center in which the water ran off in baked or glazed earthenware tile water runways.  

Archeologist have searched for evidence of clay bathtubs in this city, as history documents such tubs in the palace of Sargon the Great, the Assyrian king of Nineveh from 721 to 705 BCE.  Conclusion to date suggests that Nebuchadnezzar’s bath was actually a shower, poured over him by slaves of a watery soap mixture of ashes of designated plants and fats.  Some suggest this was more like a detergent rinse.

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Map of Babylon

Privies and commodes appear to have their origin near this era.  Again; the archeology of the palace of Sargon the Great showed an exotic array of six ‘toilets’ with high seats like the modern western toilet. Cesspools were unearthed, with drains connections to a main sewer that was 3.28 feet high, and 16 feet long, vaulted over with baked bricks.  This sewer ran below the pavement along the outer wall of the palace. 

Within the city, a ferry would take people from one side of the Euphrates to the other. In the coregent era of Nebuchadnezzar II and his son Nabonidatus, a draw bridge on stone peers, 100 feet long and 30 feet wide, was placed across the river.   There was even a tunnel under the river 15 feet wide and 12 feet high, used for vehicular traffic.

The Sacred Temple of Marduk 

The most sacred of the temples was the temple of Esagila, which in Sumerian meant, ‘The house that rises its head’, built to honor the Supreme god, Marduk.  According to Daniel, within the sacred confines of the temple of Nebuchadnezzar’s god, Marduk, the Temple of Esagila, the sacred vessels from the temple of Solomon were placed for custody and safekeeping. 

Situated in the center of Babylon, the Temple of Esagila housed two courts, the first was 40x70 meters and then to a smaller court 49x25 meters.  Inside the temple shrine were two sacred rooms, the holy place and the ‘holy of holies’ which stood the golden statue of Marduk and his consort Zarpanitum.  This temple was still functional in the 1st century BCE less than a hundred years before the time of Christ.

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The Temple of Marduk in Babylon, called the Esagila and the Ziggurat Temple of Etemenanki

 Herodotus in his book, The History of the Persian Wars (c.430 BCE) gives a description of the Temple of Marduk called the Esagila. 

Herodotus I.183: “There is a second temple, in which is a sitting figure of Jupiter [Marduk], all of gold. Before the figure stands a large golden table, and the throne whereon it sits, and the base on which the throne is placed, are likewise of gold. The Chaldeans told me that all the gold together was eight hundred talents' weight. Outside the temple are two altars, one of solid gold, on which it is only lawful to offer sucklings; the other a common altar, but of great size, on which the full-grown animals are sacrificed. It is also on the great altar that the Chaldeans burn the frankincense, which is offered to the amount of a thousand talents' weight, every year, at the festival of the god.” 

"In the time of Cyrus there was likewise in this temple a figure of a man, twelve cubits high, entirely of solid gold. I myself did not see this figure, but I relate what the Chaldeans report concerning it. Darius, the son of Hystaspes, plotted to carry the statue off, but had not the hardihood to lay his hands upon it. Xerxes, however, the son of Darius, killed the priest who forbade him to move the statue, and took it away. Besides the ornaments which I have mentioned, there are a large number of private offerings in this holy precinct.”

Here we see within the Temple of Esagila, the most sacred of the Babylonian temples and the temple to the god of the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, a large golden image of a man that appears to be standing in the presence of the large golden sitting image of the god Marduk, the god of Babylon. 

Where did this image come from?  In whose image was this image made?  Did Herodotus leave us with a secular historical account of the Biblical Golden Image of Nebuchadnezzar? 

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Nebuchadnezzar praying to Marduk in the Temple Esagila 

Understanding that the golden image in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of Esagila was recorded many years after Nebuchadnezzar had died, it still documents one fact, the god of Nebuchadnezzar was Marduk.  As we will learn later the god of Nabonidus and Belshazzar was not Marduk, but rather Sin.  Every evidence suggests that the golden “figure of a man” was created during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar and documented in the reign of Cyrus the Great.  

Did Nebuchadnezzar build two images or figures in the likeness of man?  The historian has to seriously pause and consider that Herodotus’ image was the same “Golden Image” that Nebuchadnezzar erected in the Plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.  

The image to Nebuchadnezzar built on the plain of Dura was “threescore (60) cubits and the breadth thereof six cubits.” (Daniel. 3:1) yet the Golden Statue of Marduk was only twelve cubits or about 20 feet tall.  

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The Golden Statue of King Nebuchadnezzar and the Three Worthies: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Was this the same statue, with a different base put under it?  Both were made of gold.  Both appear to be in the image of a man.  Assuming the aspiration and deification of Nebuchadnezzar by his people, the king had become the personification of their god, Marduk.  

Both also seem to be shadowy types of the erection of the “Image to the Beast” which the world will pay homage with their foreheads (knowledge and mental assent) and their hands (physical giving to the king) and will personify the “Mark of the Beast” and the desecration of the temple of the Lord as he, the anti-Messiah, called the “Messiah the Prince” will seek to sit in the seat of the “Most High”. 

At the time of the dedication of the golden image on the Plain of Dura, Daniel’s political status had now been elevated to sit in the “gate of the king” (Daniel. 1:49), at the judgment seat where the chief councilors and judges sat.   He was recognized as one the supreme advisors or one of the ‘wise men’ of the realm.  These were the king’s closest confidants, they were the Chaldeans also known as the Magi, the magicians or astrologers in the king’s inner council.  

The Magi and the royal court should have been most grateful to Daniel for he saved their lives by tapping into the conduit of divine wisdom, when the Lord of hosts, revealed to him a dream that Nebuchadnezzar could not even remember.

Prophet Daniel interpreting the Dream of Nebuchadnezzar

It was the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, and he awakened greatly disturbed about a dream one evening.  He did not want an interpretation of the dream, he wanted the dream to be revealed to him because he could not even remember it.  It affected his psychic, causing him to become mentally disturbed, depressed and began having panic attacks over this event.  

The Chaldeans, known as the Magi or wise men, kept advising the king, “Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will show you the interpretation of it.” (Daniel 2:4). 

Nebuchadnezzar was wiser than this.  Anyone can give an interpretation, whether valid or not, but to be a revealer of the secrets of the gods, would take a man who was endowed with wisdom and special skills from G-d.  His response to the Chaldeans was:

Daniel 2:4 - “The thing (dream) is gone from me: if you will not make known unto me the dream with the interpretation of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”  

This was getting serious.  Wipe out the whole echelon of royal advisors was within the power of Nebuchadnezzar and his edict was indicative of his distressed human mind. This edict was not just to those sitting in the court of the king at that time but to all the Magi in the whole land of Babylon.  

Daniel was not in the king’s court at the time of this confrontation.  He was presented with the edict of the king by Arioch, the king’s captain of the royal guard.  With great diplomacy and almost assuredly a palpitating heart, he asked Arioch, the king’s captain to request of the king a short time to summon the God of his fathers for a special revelation. What courage!  What faith!  

Daniel was not skilled in oracular revelations.  But he had faith that the Lord of host, the God of his forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would honor this request. With his friends, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, entered into a special prayer season with their Lord.  

In a dream, while asleep, Daniel was revealed not only the dream of the king, but the meaning. The Lord of hosts was speaking with Daniel as a conduit for the revelations of the Most-High. 

In the presence of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, known as Belteshazzar, quickly informed the king that he did not come with any special oracular skills, but that “there is a G-d in heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days” (Daniel 2:28) 

Nebuchadnezzar’s Statue representing Four Future World Empires now to be destroyed by the hand of HaShem with a Stellar Asteroid 

The king in his dream had seen a great image.  It had a head of gold, the chest and arms were of silver, the abdomen and thighs of brass, the legs of iron and the feet a mixture of iron and miry clay mingled with the seed of men. (Daniel 2:43) And then there was a stone, ‘cut out without hands’ that would shatter and destroy this image.  

This was not just an image, it was a warp tunnel into the prophetic future. The image whose “brightness was excellent…and the form of the image was terrible.”  This word, terrible is a unique word to the Bible, Chaldean in origin, dchiy, (Strong’s 1763) meaning to fear, to be formidable, to make afraid or dreadful.  No, this was not a happy dream and Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of the world with the power and ego to match was truly mentally traumatized. 

And then the G-d of heaven introduced Nebuchadnezzar to the Kingdom of G-d. It would rise up in the era of the kingdoms of gold (Babylon), silver (Medo-Persia), brass (Greece) and iron (Rome) and then the feet of iron and clay (the Islamic and European) nations that would inherit the vast reaches of these empires. 

This stone that was ‘cut out without hands’, would become the central focus of the prophetic dream.  Within the realm of Nebuchadnezzar and standing before him was a remnant of the people that would eventually form the foundation of this kingdom, the House of Judah. That dusty little capital, with a glorious temple, Jerusalem, would someday become the capital of that glorious kingdom in the future millennium. 

Daniel, now known as Belteshazzar, was suddenly vaulted to the top echelon of the Babylonian government.   He became the prime minister or ruler of the main province of Babylon, chief of the governors of the provinces (2:48), and master of the magicians or wise men of Babylon. (4:9) 

In turn, Belteshazzar, named his three trusted and loyal Jewish friends now called Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, as the Ministers of Governmental Affairs of the Imperial Government in Babylon. 

It was not long before the One G-d of Israel was preparing a “test” for Daniel’s three worthies who were now in charge of the governance of the entire Imperial government of Babylon.  The edict went out to worship the Golden Image of King Nebuchadnezzar; all the peoples bowed down in reverence to One World Imperial ruler; but the three worthies refused. 

King Nebuchadnezzar with Daniel’s Three Worthies Friends after their Freedom from the Fiery Furnace, now Jewish Governors over the Babylonian Empire

The friends of Daniel the Prophet were now facing annihilation, as Abram was also threatened in the Empire of Nimrod the Great, who built the Tower of Babel, was also thrown into a fiery furnace yet lived to become the Patriarch of the 12-Tribes of the House of Abram. 

The Almighty One of Israel was now preparing to give King Nebuchadnezzar a lesson on his Own.  The Three Worthies, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego continued to organize the governmental structure of the Jewish people in exile, preparing Torah seminaries for them to continue to learn the wisdom of Torah given to the “Nation of Israel” when they met HaShem at the mount called Sinai.

Daniel’s Three Worthies in Babylon’s Fiery Furnace

As such, the Jewish peoples remained a peaceful element in Babylon, whom King Nebuchadnezzar could trust. Their religion remained sacred to the worship of the One G-d of Israel and their culture in Babylon was preserved until the day when a new Messiah, King Cyrus the Great, a Lost Ten Tribe descendant of the House of Israel of the Pasargadae (tribe of Gad) arrived at the gates of Babylon. 

The waters of the River Euphrates were diverted and the Lost Tribe military sappers crawled under the invincible walls of the most impregnable fortress in ancient times; toppled the City of Babylon without shedding one drop of Jewish blood.   

The Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel military sappers had arrived and were swimming under the metal gates of Babylon at the same time when the grandson of King Nebuchadnezzar, Belteshazzar in violation of the Almighty One of Israel, celebrated in a banquet honoring with his chief counselors and advisors what he believed was the end of the 70-year prophecy given by the Prophet Jeremiah.
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Belshazzar’s last Feast in Babylon 

What Belshazzar did not comprehend, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel were arriving on a large military rescue mission; for the redemption of the Jews in exile was now at hand; a sign that the Empire of King Nebuchadnezzar was beginning its decline into extinction. 

To Belshazzar’s amazement; as they celebrated the feast, they were also drinking wine as they desecrated the holy golden cups from King Solomon’s temple. Then; there on the walls of the palatial banquet hall the “Finger of the Divine” began writing the epithet for the Babylonian Empire.

"And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

The One-G-d of Israel was now displaying His Divine hand. The Golden Kingdom of Babylon Era was now over.

Daniel 4, the madness of Nebuchadnezzar (the fourth chapter of the Bible's Book of Daniel) tells how King Nebuchadnezzar learns the lesson of G-d's sovereignty, "who is able to bring low those who walk in pride." Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree that shelters the whole world, but in his dream an angelic "watcher" appears and decrees that the tree must be cut down and that for seven years he, Nebuchadnezzar, will have his human mind taken away and will eat grass like an ox. This comes to pass, and at the end of his punishment Nebuchadnezzar praises G-d. (Daniel's role is to interpret the dream for the king).

The message of Nebuchadnezzar's madness is that all earthly power, including that of kings, is subordinate to the power of HaShem, the One G-d of the Universes. It forms a contrasting pair with chapter 5: Nebuchadnezzar learns that G-d alone controls the world and is restored to his kingdom, while Belshazzar fails to learn from Nebuchadnezzar's example and has his kingdom taken from him and given to Cyrus the Great, the ruler of the Medes and Persians who actually were the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.

What historians fail to perceive, King Cyrus the Great was the king of the Pasargadae Tribe; or the Tribe of Gad and his military general Gobryas, Cyrus' kinsman, was also a minor king of the Tribe of Gad, who use to live on the "other side of the Jordan River". 

Daniel 4 is a legend set in the royal court, like the other tales of chapters 1–6.The theme is the relationship between heavenly and earthly power: the king's power on earth is not denied, but it is subordinate to the power of G-d. Chapters 4 and 5 contrast Nebuchadnezzar, who learns his lesson when humbled by God, and Belshazzar, who learns nothing from Nebuchadnezzar's example and blasphemes against God, who then gives his kingdom to the Medes and Persians.

The story is set around the fall of Babylon, when on 12 October 539 BCE the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great entered the city. Its last king, Nabonidus, was captured, and his fate is unknown, although he may have been exiled. Several details in the text do not match the known historical facts.

Belshazzar is portrayed as king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar, but was actually the son of King Nabonidus, one of Nebuchadnezzar's successors, and never became king. The conqueror is named as Darius the Mede, but no such individual is known to history; and the invaders were not Medes, but Persians. This is typical of the story's genre, in which historical accuracy is not an essential element.

The constituent elements of the Book of Daniel were assembled shortly after the end of the Maccabean crisis, which is to say shortly after 164 BCE. The tales making up chapters 2 to 6 are the earliest part, dating from the late 4th or early 3rd centuries. Their setting is Babylon, and there is no reason to doubt that they were composed in the Babylonian diaspora (i.e., among the Jewish community living in Babylon and Mesopotamia under Persian and then Greek rule). They reflect a society in which foreign rulers were not necessarily malevolent (Belshazzar rewards Daniel and raises him to high office); this is a marked contrast with the visions of chapters 7–12, where the sufferings of the Jews are the result of actions by the evil 2nd century BCE king Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Belshazzar's feast is a legend, conforming to the subgenre of the "tale of court contest". This has been complicated by the inclusion of Daniel's indictment of Belshazzar's pride and his failure to honor the G-d of Israel; as a result the tale has a double ending, in which Daniel is first showered with rewards and honors for interpreting the omen, and the king is then punished to fulfill the sentence pronounced by Daniel.

Chapters 2 and 7 tell how all worldly kingdoms will come to an end and be replaced by the kingdom of G-d, and chapters 3 and 6 tell how pious Jews withstand the arrogance of earthly kings and are rescued by the G-d of Israel. Chapters 4 and 5 form the center and carry the most important message in their parallel but contrasting tales of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar. The first is humbled by G-d, learns his lesson (he acknowledges the ultimate kingship of the Jewish G-d), and is restored to his throne; Belshazzar, in contrast, learns nothing from Nebuchadnezzar's example, blasphemes against G-d, and has his kingdom given to others.

Megalithic statutes are well known in antiquity.  The Colossi of Memnon at ancient Thebes in Upper Egypt was a stone built statute of King Amenhotep II, the father of Akhenaten, was about 65 feet high. 

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The Colossi of Memnon at ancient Thebes in Upper Egypt

The ancient Colossus at Rhodes, known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world stood over 70 feet in height as it was built over the harbor of the city of Rhodes. It was dedicated to the god Helios and was built from the booty of the war left behind by Demetrius Poliorcetes when he raised his unsuccessful siege of Rhodes in 305 BCE.

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 The Colossus of Rhodes

Compare this with the Statute of Liberty in the New York harbor, which is 305 feet tall, yet the Statute herself is only 111 feet.  If this same ratio 1:3 were put on the sixty-cubit statue of Nebuchadnezzar, the golden statue would be about 20 cubits or less, much closer to the size of the statue of Marduk in the Temple of Esagila. 

The ancient Colossus at Rhodes, known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world stood over 70 feet in height as it was built over the harbor of the city of Rhodes. It was dedicated to the god Helios and was built from the booty of the war left behind by Demetrius Poliorcetes when he raised his unsuccessful siege of Rhodes in 305 BCE.     

The name for the Plain of Dura, where the golden image of Nebuchadnezzar originally stood, survives in the name of a tributary off the Euphrates River called Nahr Dura which is about 5 miles below Hille, the present city near the ruins of Babylon. 

Therefore; five miles from the great city of Babylon, near the tributary river called Nahr Dura was the great Plain of Dura.  Here the king summoned all the government leaders of his empire, the princes, and the governors of the provinces, the captains of the hosts, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and the provincial rulers to come to a special dedication service.  

This was an auspicious and august gathering.  Zedekiah, king of Judah, recognized as one of the governors of the vassal state in the province of Judah was also summoned to this gathering in the 4th year of his reign about 594/593 BCE.  Accompanying the king was his chamberlain, Seraiah ben Neriah ben Maaselah, who was to take an oracle against Babylon.  

While walking along the majestic walls towering over the Euphrates, he was to attach a stone to this manuscript and toss it into the Euphrates, saying “Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her…” (Jeremiah.51:59-64).  It should be interesting to note that Seraiah and Baruk the scribe for Jeremiah were both sons of Neriah.  Can we assume that Seraiah and Barak were brothers? 

Here also is cast the epic account of the three Hebrew worthies, Daniel’s friends in the Ministry of Affairs Office that were cast into a fiery furnace because they refused the bow down to the golden statute in allegiance to King Nebuchadnezzar. 

No doubt, King Zedekiah did not have any compunction about giving allegiance to the king and the god of the Babylonian king, Marduk.  Besides, soon after Zedekiah returned to Jerusalem, he formed an alliance with the Egyptian and revolted against Nebuchadnezzar.  The rest is now history.   

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Destination Yisrael – “Slowly the Almighty One of Israel is opening the gates of the Supernal Realm surrounding the Throne of G-d. He is revealing to us a mini-vision of our future as we become one with Him in the future Millennium of the Great Shabbat. 

The struggles we will have within this era, will be to give up of ourselves, allow humility to become a part of our lives, for within each us is the sublime message that if we are willing to submit ourselves to His will, the power of the Divine will help us to jump the hurtles into our future. 

Then we realize that the Eternal One now reveals to us that the future of our Eternity was given to Metatron, He was the first of creation, the most Exalted Being of the heavenly realms. He was the Vizier to the Holy One of Israel as Vizier like Joseph was to the Pharaoh of old.  Here is a majestic being who oversees the running the Universes of the Divine. 

And he was the same being that led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the mount called Sinai this time as a Pillar of Fire at night and a Cloud to shade the daytime. Metatron was the “Guide” to Moshe in the Wilderness. It was here where he helped to lead and guide the Great Redeemer of the Children of Israel. Metatron became the Neshama Soul of Moshe in heaven that related to the “Indwelling Soul” or the Neshama Soul of Moshe on Planet Earth. 

As such Moshe, as we also may, kept in constant touch with the Divine One for man, created in the Image of G-d, has always had direct line access with the One G-d of Israel. If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with your cousins the Jews and the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future. 

This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

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05/04/2018

The Emeq HaMelekh - The Copper Scroll, the Anointing Oil, the Temple Incense and the Ashes of the Red Heifer

The Emeq Ha Melekh - The Copper Scroll, the Anointing Oil, the Temple Incense and the Ashes of the Red Heifer

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 The Copper Scroll

Jeremiah and the Five Guardians of Solomon’s Temple Treasures

Part Three

by Robert Mock MD

robertmock@biblesearchers.com

May 2018

 

Topics

Mishnah 2

The Copper Scroll (Luach Nehoshet)

The Legacy of the Copper Scroll

The Holy Anointing Oil (Shemen Afarsimon)

The Holy Temple Incense (Pitum haQetoret)

Kalal, the Urn that contains the Ashes of the Red Heifer

The Ashes of the Red Heifer

The Nine Red Heifers in Jewish History

The Miphkad Altar

The Red Heifer and Yehoshua - the Type/Antitype of the Sin Offering

Four Types of Sin Offerings

“Outside the Camp”

Symbols and Types of the Sin Offering

The Temple Ritual of the Red Heifer

The Trial of the Prince of David, Yehoshua Ha Notzri

Yehoshua, the Messiah of His Generation as the Red Heifer

The Ashes of the Red Heifer and the Restoration of the Sanctuary/Temple 

Introduction 

In part one of this series we became acquainted with the fascinating document, Emeq HaMelekh and the roles of five worthy men, Shimur Ha Levi, Haggai (Chaggai the Prophet), Zechariah son of Iddo, Zedekiah (Zidkiyah), Hezekiah (Hizkiyah), Hilkiyah, Ezra the Cohen, and Baruch son of Neriah the Scribe for Jeremiah who were commissioned on a secret mission to hide the treasures of Solomon’s Temple. 

Under the command of King Josiah, the Prophet Jeremiah as recorded in the Book of Maccabees secreted, with these Jewish revolutionaries for the G-d of Abraham, the museum archives of the Nation of Israel.  These treasures possessions were stored in Zedekiah’s Grotto or Cavern under the Temple Mount (Hiram As-Sharif) below the Temple of Solomon (Beit HaMikdash).  There the Sanctuary of the Congregation (Mishkhan) described in the Torah, the Ark of the Covenant, the Menorah, the Altar of Incense were stored in times of security. 

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The Copper called Qalal (Kalal) was used the Store the Ashes of the Red Heifer 

These were taken to a safe haven several miles from Jerusalem in the Valley of Achor, near the caves of the Essene community of Qumran famed for the Dead Sea Scrolls and in site of Mount Nebo.  

This site was accessible by the extensive tunnels that extended from what is now known as Solomon’s (Schlomo’s) Quarries or Stables. Now in the Emeq HaMelekh, a group of Mishnahs, we can read the rest of the story of how the vast treasures that was saved for the future atonement of the chosen people of G-d at the time of the end.  

Vendyl Jones and his Research Institute and the Temple Institute were prominent in the quest to find the Qalal, a pottery jug containing the Ashes of the Red Heifer, the Wilderness Sanctuary (Mishkhan) and the Ark of the Covenant.  

This chapter we will be introduced to the discoveries of the of the Copper Scroll (Luach Nehoshet), the Anointing Oil (Shemen Afarsimon) which was used the anoint the prophets and the kings, the Temple Incense (Pitum haQetoret) and the special Incenses Spices prepared by the noted Jewish Avtinas family for the Jewish Temple. 

The Qalal (Kalal) with Ashes of the Red Heifer still awaits discovery, for it was used according to the Seder Ha Olam during the dedication of the Sanctuary Tabernacle and without it the waters of purification needed to cleanse and purify a new Jewish Temple would not be possible. 

Here the story of the ten red heifers that were to be killed before the time of the messiah (Maschiach) and the nine red heifers that were sacrifices for a sin offering between Sinai and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE will be told. 

It was the officiating priests, Ezra the Cohen, Shemon HaTzaddik, Yochanan High Priest, Hananel Egyptian, Ishmael Piabi who took the heifers ‘outside the camp’, across the Kidron Valley and over the Bridge of the Red Heifer to the Miphkad anointed altar on the Mount of Olives in the days before the destruction of the Temple of Solomon. 

Whereas in Christian theology, the Prince of David, Yehoshua (Jesus), who was called “The Nazarene” was adapted into Roman Catholic theology as the Passover Pesach lamb, the Prince Yehoshua was also identified as an anti-type of the heifer that was slain or executed on a tree according to the Essene traditions as a sin offering on the Day of Atonement.  

Now we will see that the extensive Jewish temple ritual of the burning of the red heifer was part of a literal Jewish drama, enacted every year since the days of King Solomon’s Temple in exquisite literal detail. It was also prophetically reenacted by the illegal nighttime trial of the Prince of David, Yehoshua, by the corrupt Sadducees who sat in judgment within the Sanhedrin in the Chamber of Hewn Stones. 

This included a walk through the eastern gate of the temple, across the Kidron Valley where history has documented was executed on a tree as a final reenacting of the sacrifice of the red heifer on the Miphkad altar on the Mount of Olives. 

Omens prior to the destruction of the temple by the Roman forces occurred during the forty years after the execution drama of Yehoshua when: 

  • The massive door called Hekel opened on its own by supernatural forces;
  • The crimson cord also turned white as a portrayed in the aborted attempt to sacrifice the tenth red heifer.
  • With the discovery of the mikvaot baths for the high priest above the Gihon Springs and the possibility of Solomon’s temple as being erected at this site, we will consider that the tenth red heifer was selected to be sacrificed during the Pesach ceremonies yet according to Essene traditions, the execution of the red heifer was aborted when the “red heifer” instead gave birth to a lamb.
  • Type met anti-type on the temple mount as the true Pesach lamb, in the human body of the one called “The Nazarene” death drama of the death called Prince Yehoshua, the son of the Prince of David Yosef (Joseph), who was the brother of James the Just, in Essene traditions as Joseph of Arimathea. 

Mishnah 2 

These are the holy vessels and the vessels of the Temple that were in Jerusalem and in every place. They were inscribed by Shimur HaLevi and his companions, on a "Luach Nehoshet" (Copper Plate/Sheet), with all the Vessels of the Holy of Holies that Shlomo son of David made. And together with Shimur were Hizkiyahu, Zidkiyah, Haggai the Prophet, and Zechariah, son of Berachiah, son of Ido the Prophet. 

The Copper Scroll called the Luach Nehoshet in this Mishnah, we now can portray in living reality as we see the five Temple treasury guardians working  together laboriously as they inscribing on what is called the “Luach Nehoshet” or the brazen, brass or copper sheet or plate (Strong’s 5178 - nekj-o-sheth).  This is our strongest evidence of the origin of the Copper Scroll found at Qumran. 

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The Copper Scroll by the West Semitic Research Project

The picture is now beginning to unfold.  Zechariah and his famed end of times Oracles, with Haggai and his five exhortations which encouraged the speedy rebuilding of the temple of Zerubabbel, along with Zidkiyah(Zedekiah), the 1st civil leader of the newly returned Jerusalem community. 

They with Hizkiyahu (Hezekiah) and Shimur HaLevi were all co-conspirators and accomplices in the secret spiritual and religious mission to preserve the sacred vessels of the Mishkan (Sanctuary) which included the articles of temple service in the renown Temple of Solomon (Shlomo) 

The Legacy of the Copper Scroll 

The Copper Scroll was part of the collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in May 1952 in cave Qvj3 in the caves of Qumran.  It was first translated in 1956-57 after the archeologists designed a way to cut the copper sheets that had been rolled up into two copper rolls.  Within the Copper Scroll it described the location of where the Qalal (the copper urn that hold the ashes of the red heifer) and the Temple treasures are hidden including possible cryptic references to the Ark of the Covenant, the Altar of Incense and other sacred furnishings of the Mishkhan, the Wilderness Sanctuary of the Congregation hid by the Prophet Jeremiah. 

Yet most researchers believed that this scroll either was a forgery, or was part of the temple treasures of Herod’s Temple that were secreted away prior to its destruction from the Roman forces in 68-70 CE. So, the Copper Scroll lay ignored for over twenty years in the Museum of Amman, Jordan.  

As M.A. Ben-Luria stated: “…the validity and authenticity of the Copper Scroll would remain in question until one single item mentioned in the scroll is discovered.  Once something is found at Qumran that was listed among the 64 designated items and places in the Copper Scroll, the scroll’s validity would finally be unquestioned.”

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The Copper Urn held the Ashes of the Red Heifer along and the “Pottery Juglet of the Shemen Afarsimon” held the Holy Anointing Oil

The Holy Anointing Oil (Shemen Afarsimon)

And so, it was.  In April 1988, the Vendyl Jones Research Institute in collaboration with Professor Yoseph Patrich, Benny Arubas and Benny Agur of the Hebrew University made an astounding discovery.  

A juglet of the Shemen Afarsimon, the Holy Anointing Oil was discovered in Cave 13 (Jordan’s Cave #24).  The Pharmaceutical Department of Hebrew University tested the substance inside the small juglet and gave their scholarly verification that it was the Shemen Afarsimon of Psalms 133. 

Psalms 133 - “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!  It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard:  that went down to the skirts of his garments:  as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life for evermore.” 

This Anointing Oil was used by the Prophet Eli to anoint King Saul and later King David and Solomon, but also the High Priests of the Temple of the Lord and the Prophets.  This oil was also used as a fragrance that was poured on the oblation to provide a ‘sweet smelling savor’ on the sacrifices. 

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The Holy Temple Incense (Pitum haQetoret) 

According to the Jewish Torah scholars; in particular the Jewish Kabbalists, who write about the supernatural remedy called the segula which meant the “supernatural remedy” concerning the reading of the incense offering in front of the Mantle of the Most Holy Place.  These august moments in temple service enactment spoke of the special benefits it brings upon the one who reads it from the parchment in the presence of the Holy One of Israel. 

Our Torah scholars and, particularly, the kabbalists teach us about the segula (supernatural remedy) of reading the incense offering, and of the benefits it brings, especially when read from parchment. 

Anyone who reads the scriptural account of the incense offering is as if he offered the incense in the Holy Temple himself. Its reading has the same power as when Aharon, the High Priest, used the (secret of the) incense offering to stop the plague and the Angel of Death. 

The secret had to have been revealed to Moshe for a Heavenly Voice asked, 'Who revealed this secret to my children?'." Therefore, Moshe received the secret of the incense offering at the time of the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai from the Prosecuting Angel and passed it down to his brother, Aharon, the High Priest.Since then, we have this knowledge from generation to generation. 

The recitation of the incense offering from a text written in Torah script is a segula for merit, wealth, and success in all endeavors. (Caf HaChaim-Chapt. 132, Sec. 23) 

Also within the Copper Scroll, is documentation of the Holy Incense that was used to by the priests to sprinkle on the Altar of Incense in the Holy Temple.  On April 8, 1992, the excavation team of Vendyl Jones Research Institute, was searching the strata in the Cultural Dome of the ‘hidden north entrance’ at the Cave of the Column”, when Glenda Hurst, a volunteer called out to Larry Banks, “Come over here and look at this. It’s some kind of red stuff that is very different.”  The taste test and the smell test revealed an organic compound with a hint of cinnamon in it.  

The samples, that were sent to Dr. Marvin Antelman with the Weizman Institute and Ya’acov Arkin at the Israel Institute of Geology, both determined that the substance was indeed organic, for the "density indicates that the material which is lighter than water is excluded from the category of red soil or red minerals......also the high percentage of ash is typical of plant source."  In all, it was identified that this substance contained eight of the eleven spices present in the Pitum haQetoret (Temple Incense), all in a highly refined state.  

This was again confirmed again at the laboratories at Bar-Ilan University. With the addition of two additional inorganic ingredients, Karsina Lye and Sodom Salt, which was found near-by in the same cave, ready to be mixed with the spices, the ingredients of the Holy Incense, the haQetoret, would be mixed to be used in the Temple services according to the Torah and the Talmud.  

Later and more exhaustive testing and analysis by Dr. Terry Hutter, a paleo-botanist, who stated that not just eight ingredients, but ‘the red-brown spice sample is composed of nine different and unique plants.  The plants are recognizable both by pollen and organic maceral types.”  These plants types include.

  • Three kinds of Cinnamon
  • Saffron
  • Balsam
  • Myrrh
  • Galganum
  • Cassia
  • Frankincense 

There on the cave floor a total of eight hundred pounds of spices (600 kilos) were waiting to be mixed and transported to the Temple. This quantity of spices is significant because it is equivalent to the amount of spice used in one year of daily sacrifices in the Temple. In the Torah, only four ingredients are listed for the haQetoret, whereas the Mishnah lists eleven ingredients plus Sodom Salt and Karcina Lye.  

It is also in the Mishnah that records that the Avtinas family were given charge and custody of the secret recipe of compounding the pharmaceutical mix of these spices and ingredients.  The has been recorded that the fragrance of the haQetoret was so powerful that when it was being mixed, one could smell it clear over to Jericho, twelve miles north of Qumran. 

Qalal, the Copper Urn that contained the Ashes of the Red Heifer

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One of the Red Angus bulls born at the Temple Institute‘s farm, at an undisclosed location in Israel. (courtesy Temple Institute)

In March 2002, in a farm in Galilee, an Israeli rancher had a cow that gave birth to a red heifer that was born without blemish that is no white hairs on her body and face. After the heifer was a month old the Temple Institute was contacted and Rabbi Menachem Makeover and Rabbi Chaim Richman to inspect her. There they found this young heifer to be kosher and a potential candidate to become the 10th red heifer in Hebrew history. 

The world press was abuzz with the news of the birth of a pure red heifer in the Land of Israel. The orthodox community of Israel was all astir, and the topic of discussion was when was the era of the Last Days and the 10th Red Heifer about to begin?  

In the Siddur, called the Four Parshiot in the Parah, it states: 

Four Parshiot in the Parah - “The hiding place of its (the red heifer) ashes will be revealed” and in the Mishnah, Tractate Parah it states that the tenth red heifer that will be burned will be done in the time when the Messiah (Moschiach) comes and restores a new Temple for His people.” 

This young heifer was only a month old, yet within two to three years, if no more than three white or black hairs are found on her body, the orthodox Jews would have sufficient reason to take possession of the Temple Mount, where most of them feel the Temple of Solomon had been built and begin the construction of a new temple there.  

The reports of the birth of a potential red heifer, though genetically rare in this age of advanced genetic knowledge and artificial insemination, are becoming more frequent.  

According to an article in The Mid-East Dispatch, issue 237, the 16th of March 1997, that a six-month old red heifer had been born to a black and white cow and a dun colored bull, in the religious kibbutz, Kfar Hassidim, near the northern Israeli port of Haifa.  This heifer called Molly, was also declared kosher, but within a year blemishes and imperfections were noted. 

This arcane piece of Biblical knowledge on the purification rites of the red heifer has left the Christian community puzzled and the Islamic community in consternation. 

In the beginning of the Israelite nation, Moses (Moshe) was standing on Mount Sinai and was given not only the two tablets of the Decalogue engraved on stone, but the Written Torah in which the letters (Words) were given one by one by the Lord of hosts to Moses for him to write down.

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The Red Heifer in 2002

 This was the Written Torah of the Hebrews which included the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture called the Pentateuch, which he was to write down as dictated to by the Lord of hosts.  

On the other hand, the Lord spent 120 days, 40 days on three separate ascents by Moses, in which he revealed to Moses how these ordinances and commandments of the Lord were to be put or lived out in human life. This was called the Oral Torah.  

The Mishkhan, the Tabernacle of the Congregation, built in the wilderness by the skills given to noble craftsman, called Bezaleel under the supervision of Moses, was dedicated according to the Seder Ha Olam on the 1st day of the 1st month (Nissan) in the second year of the Exodus (Jewish year 2449 from Adam). 

The first day of services was completed and according to the Seder Olam, on the second day, Moses was instructed by the Lord of hosts to have the priest Eliezar, the priest, take a perfect red cow, under the age of three and who had not had a yoke put to her neck, and lead her out of the camp of Israel into the wilderness and slaughter her. 

Numbers 19: 1-8 -

19:1 - “And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

19:2 - “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

19:3 - ‘And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

19:4 - ‘And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:

19:5 - “And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

19:6 - ‘And the Priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

19:7 - “Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even….

19:8 - “And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

19:9 - ‘And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel (“as a keepsake for Israel’) for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. 

19:10 - “And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute forever.”

Holy Anointing Oil (Shemen Afarsimon 

There in the wilderness that is outside the camp of the Israelites the red heifer was then burned with a mixture of cedar, hyssop and scarlet covering. Here the cedar, oil from the juniper bush in the Sinai desert, would cause a skin irritation, which would stimulate the applicant to vigorously rub the solution in their hands.  The hyssop oil was known for its antiseptic properties, as Hyssop oil contained 50 percent carvacrol, and an antifungal and antibacterial medicinal agent.  

The Preparation of the Ashes of the Red Heifer 

Note carefully that we say burned, as this demonstrates that whole body of the heifer, even the blood and organs were burned to ashes. The ashes would then be made into a liquid paste and used in the water of purification that a Jew or Israelite must undergo in a ceremonial purification cleansing before they can enter the Temple complex. 

The ashes were then gathered by another priest who was recognized to be ritually ‘clean’ and kept in a vessel in a place outside the camp of Israel that was also kept ritually ‘clean’. After that a small fragment of these ashes could be placed in water in a vessel or thrown upon a body of water. How do we know if this water was purified?  According to the rabbinic tradition, if the surface of the water became disturbed when the ashes touched the water, then purification had occurred. 

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The Nine Red Heifers in Jewish History

G-d instructs Moshe to Prepare Anointing Oil and Incense for Ordination of the Kohanim

Skilled Artisans, Betzalel and Oholiav, are Assigned to Make Objects for the Kohanim and the Mishkan

According to the historical records kept by the Jews in their Mishnah, a total of nine perfectly red heifers have been burned.  In the Mishnah 5, called the Tractate Parah, these nine heifers burned in the sacrificial history of the Israelites and the Jews have been recorded. 

  1. “The first heifer that was burned was under the supervision of Moses on that 2nd day of Nissan in the second year from the Exodus. 
  2. The second heifer was burned under the supervision of Ezra;
  3. Two were burned by Shimon Ha Tzaddik;
  4. Two were burned by Yochanan, the High Priest, the seventh by Eliehoenai, the son of He-Kof, the eighth by Hanamel, the Egyptian,
  5. The ninth by Ishmael, son of Piabi and the
  6. Tenth will be burned in the time of the Maschiach (Messiah).” 

In this same tractate, Mishnah 5, it uncovered the conditions that would be vital to purify the future generations of Jews and Israelites at the end of times.  The oracles of G-d state over and over that the chosen people were to be a Holy People and a Holy Nation.  The rites of purification were therefore applicable not only to the people of G-d but also to the Land.  For the rites of purification to exist in the End of Times, the ashes of the tenth heifer must be mingled with the ashes of the previous nine heifers. 

In the days of the first and the second temples, the ashes were divided into three parts.  The first lot of ashes was kept by the Levites who guarded the entrance of the Temple.  The second lot of ashes was kept on Anointment Hill, now called the Mount of Olives. It was on that sacred mount that the prophets and the kings were anointed. 

It was also on that site that the priest would be purified in a ceremony that was deemed necessary before he could burn the body of another red heifer.  The third lot was placed in the chail, a portion of the wall approximating the Women’s Gallery of the Temple. 

Yet a puzzle still exists.  If you will notice, from the time of Moses and the dedication of the Sanctuary of the Congregation at Mount Sinai until the fall and destruction of the Temple of Solomon, the ashes of only one red heifer was used in the purification of the priests and the temple. 

This suggests that the Wilderness Tabernacle (the Mishkhan) until the end of the days of Solomon stayed in a state of ritual purity in which very little of the ashes of the red heifer had to be used. 

After the death of Solomon and the split of the House of Judah from the House of Israel, the Temple services still remained a strong moral force in the Land of Judah, until the days of King Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, a king with such evil in his heart that he sold the physical and moral fiber of the Kingdom of Judah to the Devil. 

2 Chron. 33:2-4,5-7,9 (parts)- “He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abomination of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.  …he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.  And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. 

He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of G-d….so Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitance of Jerusalem to do more-evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel” 

It was the reforms with the subsequent purification and dedication of the Temple, plus bringing the Ark of the Covenant from its hiding place in the bowels of Solomon’s Grotto a thousand feet under the Temple by the twelve-year old King Josiah, it appeared that the ashes of Moses’ Red Heifer were almost fully used up.  At the end of Josiah’s reign, the Prophet Jeremiah advised that the Ark and the Wilderness Sanctuary be hidden permanently. 

After the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon, the second Red Heifer was sacrificed, apparently to rededicate the new Zerubbabel’s Temple to the Lord. During the years from 520 BCE (350 BCE by Jewish yearly calculations), until 70 CE when Temple of Herod was ransacked and destroyed, eight more heifers were slaughtered.  

This suggests that from 1585 BCE to 538 BCE, over one thousand years, ritual purity was maintained within the Sanctuary and the Temple complexes, yet for the last 420 years until the destruction of Herod’s Temple, there was a constant and repetitive breech in the rites of purification of the priests and the temple as given by the L-rd of hosts to Moses. 

According to the traditions of the Jews, the hierarchy of the temple priests became more and more aware that the sacrificial system within the temple was corrupted and not accepted in the eyes of the Lord of hosts.  

Note what the Talmud states occurred at the time of the of the execution of the Prince of David, Yehoshua by the High Priests of the House of Ananias and the corrupt Sadducees of that era.

Shabbat 15a - “Forty years before the destruction of Jerusalem, the Sanhedrin was banished (from the Chamber of Hewn Stones in the Temple) and sat in the trading Station (in the Temple to the east of the former Chamber)”

Yoma 39b - “Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the lot (‘For the Lord’) did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson colored strap become white; nor did the western most light (the three-lamp shaft with seven lamps each on the right side of the Menorah nearest the Holy of Holiest) shine; and the doors of the Hekel (the large doors into the Holy Place) would open by themselves.” 

What has been little revealed, was the genealogical evidence that the High Priest of King Herod’s Temple in the last three decades of the BCE era was Yehoshua III, the third High Priest of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

The High Priest Yehoshua III, as genealogical history has portrayed, was the father of three daughters; Jane (Joanna), Elizabeth and Hanna. As the newly reigning high priest, it was the Zadokian High Priest, Boethus the Zadokian, who presided as the “Nasi” or the President of the Great Sanhedrin at this momentous moment of time in 37 BCE.  We know so little of this priest called Boethus, except as the Patriarch of the House of Boethus, the descendants of his seven sons virtually controlled the office of the high priest in Jerusalem for almost a hundred and eighty years.  Here was the testimony of Flavius Josephus when he wrote: 

Flavius Josephus – “There was one Simon, a citizen of Jerusalem, the son of one Boethus, a citizen of Alexandria, and a priest of great note there

In the genealogies of the “High Priest of Israel” by Davidian genealogist, David Hughes, Boethus was a Zadokian descendant, the 31st in descent from Zadok, the high priest of King David.  

This is of special note, because it was the Lord of hosts that specifically noted to King David and his son, King Solomon that it would be the High Priest Zadok and his descendants who would carry the hereditary responsibility to be the chosen in descent of the House of Aaron to preside in the honored position as the High Priests of Israel.  

They were to represent the national consciousness of the Israelites and the Jewish people in the sacred services at Pesach (Passover and the Festival of First Fruits), Pentecost, Yom Kippur (Day of Judgment), and Succot (Festival of Tabernacles). 

The Miphkad Altar 

The altar upon which the Red Heifer would be burned is called by the rabbis as the Miphkad Altar.  In Nehemiah 3 we see the historical description of the reparations done to the gates of Jerusalem.  The Miphkad Gate was one of the gates into the city which was near the corner of the city near the Sheep Gate. 

Nehemiah 3:31-32 - “After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the Gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner. And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.”

The Hebrew meaning of Miphkad is ‘appointed’, which is also referenced in Ezekiel 42, which talks of the bullock being burned as the sin offering at the appointed place (Miphkad). 

Ezekiel 43:21 - “Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place (Miphkad) of the house, without the sanctuary.” 

Combining the burning of a cow (bullock) as the sin offering at an appointed place (Miphkad) which was outside the sanctuary, what we can now see combines all the elements of that moment of time in history when a Prince of the genealogical descendants of Kings David and Solomon, the Prince of David Yehoshua was executed by hanging on a tree, according to the testimony of the Essenes. 

This was a prophetic representation of a “sin offering” representing symbolically all the sins of the world. According to some scholars was crucified on a ‘tree’ on the Mount of Olives, without the sanctuary, at an appointed place designated by the temple priests and the Romans. This execution was representation of the era of the future which included the future purification of the saints and remnant of the chosen ones of Israel who were believed with all their hearts that the Prince of David Yehoshua was the literal and symbolic messiah of their generation during the Temple of Herod in the 1st century CE.

The Red Heifer and Yehoshua the Prince - the Type/Antitype of the Sin Offering

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The Temple Mount in Jerusalem 

The author of the Book of Hebrews makes an interesting analogy between the Red Heifer and the Prince of David called Rabbi Yehoshua: 

Hebrews 13:9-13 - “We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.  For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the gate. 

Therefore, Yehoshua the Prince also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside, the gate.  Therefore, let us go forth to him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.” 

As all the other offerings in the temple services were also utilized as food for the priests and Levites, the bodies of the bullock, goat and the red heifer were to be burnt with their whole bodies reduced to ashes. 

Four Types of Sin Offerings 

There were four types of sin offerings.  Three of these were killed or slaughtered at the slaughtering arenas within the temple proper, “before the presence of the Lord.”  (Lev 4:4) 

All three had their blood sprinkled seven times before the Inner Curtain which veiled the Holy of Holiest. All three sin offerings had their bodies carried out of the camp to be burned to ashes on the altar outside the camp. 

The first sin offering was a young bullock which was slain for the sins of the high priest. (Lev. 4:3-12) and the final burning was in a clean place outside the camp.  The second type of sin offering was also a young bullock which was slain for the corporate community of Israelites, the entire assembly (Lev. 3:13-21) 

The ritual separation of the fat and certain organs was the same as the first bullock.  The third sin offering was on the Day of Atonement in which a young bullock and a goat were carried outside the camp and burned in the entire carcass of the animals. (Lev. 16:27)   

The holiest of all the sin offerings, was the fourth sin offering, the Red Heifer. The red heifer, offered as a sin offering for purification of the collective congregation of Israel, was slaughtered according to the dictates of the Lord of hosts to Mosshe outside the camp of Israel. (Num. 19:3) 

Unlike the other sin offerings, the Red Heifer was walked over to the Altar on the Mount of Olives and there burnt in its entirety. The difference of the red heifer and the other sin offerings is that the other three offering were for absolving sin; giving the recipient freedom from sin or in a sense; “salvation”.  On the other hand, the ashes of the red heifer were to bring “holiness”.  

The blood of the red heifer was sprinkled outside the camp, the body burned to ashes and then the ashes through some mystical process that left even the wisdom of Solomon bewildered, bestowed holiness and purification with the pure spring water as its was sprinkled not only over people, but over the land.  

They purified the temple with it. They could purify the entire city of Jerusalem if needed or the entire Land of Israel. Let us let Alfred Edersheim explain the deep meaning of the Red Heifer:

Alfred Edersheim - “As the first manifestation of sin which separates man from G-d, defilement by the dead required a sin-offering, and the ashes of the red heifer are expressly so designated in the words; It is a “sin-offering.” (Num. 9:17) But it differs from all other sin-offerings.  

The sacrifice was to be a pure red color; one “upon which never came a yoke; and a female.  All other sin-offerings for the congregation being males….But what distinguished it even more from all the others was, that it was a sacrifice once for all, (at least so long as its ashes lasted); that its blood was sprinkled, not on the altar, but outside the camp towards (westward) the sanctuary; and that it was wholly burnt, along with cedar wood, as the symbol of imperishable existence, hyssop, as the of purification from corruptions, and “scarlet” which from its color as the emblem of life. 

Thus; the sacrifice of “Highest Life”, was brought as a sin-offering, and, so as far as possible, once for all, was in its turn accompanied by the symbols of Imperishable existence, freedom from corruption, and fullness of life, so as yet more to intensity its significance. But even this is not all. 

The gathered ashes with running water were sprinkled on the third and seventh days on that which was to be purified.  Assuredly, if death meant “the wages of sin,” this purification pointed in all its details, to “the gift of G-d,” which is “eternal life” through the sacrifice of Him in whom is the fullness of life.”  (The Temple, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Michigan. 1987, pages 348-349) 

The High Priest was forbidden to offer the sacrifice of the Red Heifer.  In the same manner and in the same location, only Yehoshua, the son of G-d, and as our High Priest, could offer His life as a ‘sin offering’ for the entire planet would also be sacrificed ‘outside the gate” or “outside the camp”.  

This strongly suggests that the place where the red heifer was slain was also near the site where Yehoshua was executed.  This was the Holiest area surrounding the city of Jerusalem. (Berakoth 9:5) 

“Outside the Camp”

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Inside the Southern Half of the Chamber of Hewn Stones where the Great Sanhedrin met in Session

What does “outside the camp” mean?  In Numbers 15:35-36, it is clear that the death penalty under the Torah was to be administered “outside the camp.” Yet what were the limits or how far away from the camp of the Israelites was this to be?  

As the children of Israel were moving throughout the wilderness, they kept a certain distance between the Wilderness Tabernacle and the encampment or their places of habitation according to their clans each with their standards and ensigns. (Numbers 2).  

When they were to follow the Ark of the Covenant around the city of Jericho, this ‘distance’ that they were to keep away from the Ark of the Covenant was specified. 

Joshua 3:3 - “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your G-d, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.  Yet there shall be a space between you and it (the ark”, about two thousand cubits by measure.  Do not come near it (ark)…”  

So, they needed 2000 cubits or 3000 feet or 1000 yards in order to maintain the sanctity of the ark and for the preservation of their own lives.  According to the Hebrew law, the place of residence for an individual, whether a tent or a house, would extend out from its abode for 1000 yards.  If the place of dwelling was in a corporate site such as a walled village, a Levitical town or walled city, then the city limits was 1000 yards from the outer walls of the village, town or city.  

The House of the Lord, wherein rested the Holy of Holiest and the Ark of the Covenant, was the symbolic dwelling place of the Lord of hosts. To be “outside the camp” or “outside the gate”, it would have to be over 1000 yards (2000 cubits) from the Temple Proper or the residence of G-d. During the days of the 1st century Jewish messiah of its era called “The Nazarene” the Great Sanhedrin, who governed from the Chamber of Hewn Stones, which was on the left side of the Holy of Holiest facing east, or the north side of the Temple proper, used the same calculations to determine the corporate city limits of the city of Jerusalem.  

Since the court of the Sanhedrin stood as the center, a radius of 1000 yards determined the limits of their encampment.  Outside this perimeter was “outside the camp”.  As such the traditional sites of Jeremiah’s Grotto, the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and a small hill north-east of the Damascus Gate would be excluded from this definition of “outside the camp” and thereby excluded as potential sites for the execution of the crucifixion of the Prince of David, Yehoshua Ha David. 

Symbols and Types of the Sin Offering 

The Hebrew author takes it a bit further. He recognized that the Torah (Law) was but a shadow of the future saving power to be brought by the son of G-d.  Jesus, as the ultimate ‘sin offering’ for the world would give His body to pay the penalty of sin in order that sin could be eradicated forever from this planet and this universe.  Yes, Yehoshua, as the Living Torah, would fulfill all these shadow and types imbedded in the sanctuary services.  

Hebrews 10:11-13 - “And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sin. But his Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of G-d, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. (Ps. 110:1, Eph.1:22, ‘the last enemy that will be destroy is death” 1 Cor 15:26)    

This typology was inclusive of the both the bullocks and the goats which were used as sin offerings and the red heifer which was used for purification and holiness (from sin or defilement) of the Levites and the temple premises.  

Hebrews 9:13-14: “For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to G-d, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the Living G-d.” 

The early Hebrew Nazorean Ecclesia, remembering that in this era there were no Christians, no bishops, no popes, and leadership of the Hebrew Nazorean Ecclesia believers recognized the symbolic relationship between “The Nazarene” and the Red Heifer as depicted in the Letter of Barnabas (8:2) written about 90 CE which stated, “The calf “Red Heifer” is Yehoshua; the sinful men offering it are those who led him to the slaughter.”      

The Temple Ritual of the Red Heifer 

The whole temple services which revolved around the sin offerings and the ashes of the Red Heifer has been studied extensively by the late Ernest Martin.  In his book, Secrets of Golgotha, the forgotten history of Prince Yehoshua’s execution, (ASK Publications, Alhambra, CA. 1988, 0 945657 77 3.), he documents in the Jewish records that describe the ritual of preparation of the ashes of the red heifer.  

In the Mishnah, the early Jewish records describe the positioning of the Temple as facing east, with the Holy of Holiest on the western end of the temple premises.  Note that this is the same pattern of the Garden of Eden, in which Adam and Even approached G-d by traveling west and were cast out of the garden by being sent out of the Eastern Gate.  

Here we see the Lord of hosts residing in His residence, and He is envisioned as looking from His dwelling place or “Throne” in the Holy of Holiest facing east towards the Mount of Olives.  

The Giant Menorah is standing on His right hand side, with all the symbolisms of the Haredi Prince of David, Rabbi Yehoshua, as the “Light of the World” standing on the right hand side of the HaShem our “Father” and as we have noted above, after the execution of Yehoshua, the three lamp poles on the western end of the Menorah, or those nearest the Holy of Holiest, failed to give light, as though the Light or the Glory of the Shekinah, which Yehoshua was a reflection, was extinguished (executed) from the Inner Sanctum of the Holy Place. 

During the special ceremony of slaughtering the red heifer, which we need to be reminded occurred only nine times between Sinai and the destruction of the temple in 70 CE, the red heifer was led out of the eastern gate, across the doubled tiered arched bridge called the Bridge of the Red Heifer, to the Mount of Olives and led up to an altar near the summit of the mount. (Middoth 1:3; 2:4; Yoma 7:2 plus the Talmud in Yoma 68a and Zebahim 105b).  Here on this altar called the Miphkad (Appointed) Altar, the ceremony of preparing and burning the red heifer was performed. 

The Trial of Yehoshua Ha Notzri (Jesus the Nazarene) 

Adding the typology of the Hebrew Jewish Nazorean believers of Yehoshua, under the leadership of James (Yacob) the Just (Tzaddik), the brother of the Prince of David Yehoshua , we can now see the shadows and symbols of Yehoshua as the Passover Lamb in which every detail of the selection, preparation and slaughter of the Pesach Lamb at Passover matched with every detail of Yehoshua, the Messiah of his generations. Yehoshua was interrogated, inspected by Pilate and then sent for execution under the province of the High Priest, Ananias, one of the most wicked of the Sadducee families in first century Jerusalem. 

While the Prince of David, Yehoshua Ha David was being investigated and interrogated, it was done in the Hall of the Sanhedrin housed in the Chamber of Hewn Stones in the Temple on the left side of the Altar of Burnt Offering.  (Shabbat 15a and Rosh haShanah 31a.b) 

During the Passover season the High Priest Caiphas as President of the Sanhedrin and Annas, the Sagan, his deputy left their homes probably in the aristocratic section of the southwest hill of Jerusalem and went to live for seven days in their official ‘house’ in the temple compound.  (Middoth 5:4; Encyclopedia Judaica iii.991) The residence of the High Priest in the temple, was called the “House of Stone” (Parah 3:1) 

This seven-day residency included every weekly Shabbats, the new moons, the annual spring and fall festivals, especially the Day of Atonement and for seven days prior to offering the Red Heifer. It was here in their temple residences that the Sadducees walked across to the Chamber of Hewn Stones to interrogate and judge Yehoshua the Prince. 

Think carefully the meaning of this whole scenario.  In as much as the trial of Yehoshua, called “The Nazarene”, occurs just before a High Shabbat (Sabbath) during the Passover week, Yehoshua was judged by the High Priest, his deputy and the chief priests and then condemned by the Sanhedrin, all within the Temple proper itself.  

The judgment for Yehoshua’s death was to be in His Own Father’s House, in the presence of HaShem, His Father, who was symbolically dwelling on His Throne in His dwelling in the Holy of Holiest. 

Since the Prince of David, Yehoshua was now accursed as a condemned man, he had to be taken away from the presence of HaShem out the eastern gate. He followed the route of Adam to the east and away from the Garden of Eden and the presence of G-d. 

Yehoshua Ha David, the Messiah of His Generation as the Red Heifer

 The same pattern of fulfillment is seen in the relationship between Yehoshua and the Red Heifer.  The Red Heifer was examined and inspected on the temple proper to determine if she was a perfect or blemishless a heifer with no more than three white or black hairs on her body. So also, Prince Yehoshua was examined and interrogated by the High Priest, then the whole Sanhedrin and then Pilate, who could find ‘no fault in Him’.  

The Red Heifer was then led out the eastern gate of the temple, so also Y’shua was led away from the temple out the eastern gate, also away from the presence of His Father.  As an accused man of sin, Prince Yehoshua followed the route of Adam and Eve as they were driven from the Garden of Eden and away from the presence of G-d because of their sin of disobedience. 

The Red Heifer was led across the Kidron Valley, walking over the Bridge of the Red Heifer to the summit of the Mount of Olives, and up to the summit of the mount where she was slaughtered, so also Yehoshua the Prince of David was led by the same route to the place where He is crucified.  

Notice again how the author of Hebrews depicts this scene.  

Hebrews 13:12-13 - “Therefore Yehoshua also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.  Therefore, let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.” 

Carefully look at this text.  To sanctify us with his death, Yehoshua, guided by his heavenly “Father”, meticulously fulfilled every detail of the ritual of the red heifer in which his crucifixion occurred outside the gate (walls of the city of Jerusalem) and outside the camp.  

In order that his death would not defile the temple itself, the location was beyond the limits of 1000 yards (2000 cubits) outside the city walls.  The closest location beyond the limits of 1000 yards was near the summit on the southern hill of Mount of Olives. 

The last part of the verse above, one must question, where this is a symbolic or literal interpretation.  If symbolic, then the interpretation “bearing the stigma that he bore”, would suggest that we would give up the approval of the world and accept the reproach of Yehoshua, the Prince of David. And as such, going ‘outside the camp’, would suggest that we would be willing to be excluded from religious and social acceptance.  

Yet is there a literal interpretation?  Would not the Hebrew author suggest that the reader retrace the footsteps of Jesus.  For Yehoshua to use His own blood for the saving grace and sanctification that it offers to all believers, He would have to suffer and be executed outside the gates and walls of the city, as preordained since the days of Moshe. Not only that, the author urges the readers to mentally go watch the crucifixion outside the camp on the Mount of Olives, and watch Him bear ‘His reproach’, or the cross beam of his  “execution upon a tree”.  

The Ashes of the Red Heifer and the Restoration of the Sanctuary/Temple

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The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount

So, the puzzle continues. According to rabbinic opinion, future temple construction cannot begin unless the ashes of the red heifers that have been mixed since the days of Moses also have been found. Though this fact is overlooked by many evangelical Christians who in their beliefs of dispensationalism, await the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem as a sign of the End of Times, the soon to be abomination of desolation and the imminent coming of Yehoshua is not overlooked by the ultra-orthodox Jews.  

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King David’s Sepulcher (underground) in reference to the Temple of Herod in Jerusalem

For three decades, a former Baptist minister, now amateur archeologist, Vendyl Jones, now deceased has been searching for the K’lal, which according to the Copper Scroll is the urn or vessel that contains the ashes of the red heifer that was used in the Mishkhan or Wilderness Sanctuary and in Solomon’s Temple.  These ashes were from the first heifer that was slaughter by Eliezar in the days of Moses. 

According to Jones, in order for the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple) to be restored, this vessel of ashes from the first Temple ashes of the red heifer must be found.  This is not just a fantasy of a lone Texas archeologist, but was shared by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, whom some Jews believe also to be a messiah, plus the rabbinic giants of Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz and Reuven Grodner, formerly from the Hebrew University.  

Even Menachem Burstin, who is a known botanist of the Middle East flora and expert on Biblical chemistry has also stated that only the ashes of the red heifer remain of all the ingredients needed to prepare for the water of purification. 

As we shall soon see, this unique metal document, the Copper Scroll according to the translation from the Hebrew linguists of the Vendyl Jones Research Institute, state that “under the spices, is the purification.”  According to the meaning of this translation, buried beneath the site where the Temple Incense called the Pitum haQetoret was discovered near the ‘hidden north entrance’ at the Cave of the Column is the site where the ashes of the Red Heifer are buried.  

But what is the importance about the furor on the Temple Mount?  In 1967, just a month after the Jews on the six-day war and took over possession of the Temple Mount, the custody of the mount was given to the Moslem Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by the Jewish government as a statement of peace.  

To a secular Jewish perspective, this was not particularly significant as the Jewish people did not have access to walk on the mount for fear that they would be treading over the ground where the Most Holy Place of the Temple stood with the Ark of the Covenant.  

This ground was sacred and holy and as such the Temple Mount was useless to the secular Jew.  With the Mosque of Omer on the mount since 1600’s, the   Moslem people now accept this site to be their own possession.  At this site where they believe a vision in the Koran that Mohammed was miraculously transported from Mecca to Jerusalem, gives them justification that outside of a holy jihad, no non-Muslim religion or nation will ever take over control of the third recognized holy spot in the Moslem religion. 

Yet not only the Muslim faith, but the Jesuits of the Roman Catholic Church have been eying the control of the Temple Mount a symbol of their being the legitimate representative of the World Christian faith and what they feel is their rightful responsibility as the custodian of the Mount, to make it a place where the faithful of all religions can come to worship. 

This surreal idealism, to many prophetic scholars, has the germ of reality, for what place could best represent the idealism of a One World Order with a One-World Faith, then to have the Catholics broker this mount as Mount of worship for the three largest religions in the world.  

Yet Jewish tradition records that the birth of a pure red heifer has not occurred since the destruction of Herod’s Temple in 70 CE by the forces of the Roman emperor Titus.  

To the tzaddiks of Israel, if such a calf were truly to grow up and remain unblemished, it would herald the beginning of the Messianic era with the rebuilding of the Holy Temple as envisioned by the prophet Ezekiel. 

According to the rabbinic sages, the redemption of Israel will be like the morning dawn, "In the beginning, it progresses very slowly...but as it continues, it grows brighter and brighter." 

Yet not all orthodox or biblical scholars share the idea that the Temple Mount is the site where the Temple of Solomon once stood. There is a growing body of Christian and Jewish scholars that believe that Solomon’s Temple actually stood on a site south of the present Temple Mount, over the area of the Gihon Springs and the recently excavated tunnel staircases ascending from mikvaot baths that possibly were used by the High Priest and the temple Levites. 

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The Temple Mount of King Herod in the 1st century CE

This is Dr. Martin’s representation of the Temple on the left, and Fortress Antonia on the right. The Temple Mount as seen with its entrances on the east. Note the position of a double tiered arched bridge (described in the next chapter) which led from the Temple environs (the “Inward Sanctuary”) with the Miphkad Altar which was the Altar of Red Heifer (the “Outward Sanctuary”) on the Mount of Olives.  DWS

The archeological data accumulated by the late Ernest L Martin and published in his book,The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot, was that the Temple of Solomon and Zerubbabel were located over the Ophel Mound near and above the Gihon Springs. Also, the present Haram esh-Sharif, the present Temple Mount was actually the Fort of Antonia, where the judgment hall of Pilate was located. 

This site would also be in harmony with the futuristic message of Jesus to his disciples just before his crucifixion when he and his disciples were overlooking the temple complex, 

“Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.” (Matt. 24:2) 

The Tenth Red Heifer 

Also, according to Josephus, just before the final days of Jerusalem, when the forces of Vespasian and Titus were heading toward Jerusalem, the high priest prepared a tenth red heifer for slaughter in hopes of re-purifying the temple and save the city when the heifer gave birth to a lamb in the temple premises. 

The very animal that represented a ‘sin offering’ for the congregation of Israel, now defied the laws of genetics and gave birth to a lamb. The heifer had been defiled and the temple was destroyed.   

Was the Lord of hosts trying to tell the Jewish temple leadership that He had already sent His own son, who became the symbolic Passover Pesach Lamb and also had fulfilled all the requirements of the Red Heifer?  

Obviously, the message was not accepted by the High Priest Caiphas and the wicked Sadducean leadership in Jerusalem, who had seven years earlier, stoned the brother of Yehoshua, James the Just, who served as the leader of the Jerusalem Nazorean Party ruling as the High Priest of Hebrew Nazarene Ecclesia. 

Due to the righteousness that was performing the duties of the High Priest during the day of Yom Kippur, it appears that someday, a Red Heifer will be found, if not already and the ashes of the prior Red Heifer will be discovered.  

Will this lead to an apocalyptic confrontation between the Jews and the Moslems?  The Netanyahu government with its new mandate from the orthodox Jewish community could re-assume possession and control of the Temple Mount igniting the spark that could erupt into the future Gog-Magog War of Ezekiel.  

As one Bible Searcher commented; “What if the new 10th Red Heifer was prepared for slaughter to obtain the ashes to purify the site for a Sanctuary or New Temple; yet this time she foaled a “lion cub”?  

Would the Orthodox Jewish rabbanim accept that the Messiah ben David, the Lion of Judah, was also the Messiah ben Joseph, who gave Himself as the Pesach Lamb in the 1st century CE? This drama still has a few pages left to unfold. 

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Destination Yisrael – “Slowly the Almighty One of Israel is opening the gates of the Supernal Realm surrounding the Throne of G-d. He is revealing to us a mini-vision of our future as we become one with Him in the future Millennium of the Great Shabbat. 

The struggles we will have within this era, will be to give up of ourselves, allow humility to become a part of our lives, for within each us is the sublime message that if we are willing to submit ourselves to His will, the power of the Divine will help us to jump the hurtles into our future. 

Then we realize that the Eternal One now reveals to us that the future of our Eternity was given to Metatron, He was the first of creation, the most Exalted Being of the heavenly realms. He was the Vizier to the Holy One of Israel as Vizier like Joseph was to the Pharaoh of old.  Here is a majestic being who oversees the running the Universes of the Divine. 

And he was the same being that led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the mount called Sinai this time as a Pillar of Fire at night and a Cloud to shade the daytime. Metatron was the “Guide” to Moshe in the Wilderness. It was here where he helped to lead and guide the Great Redeemer of the Children of Israel. Metatron became the Neshama Soul of Moshe in heaven that related to the “Indwelling Soul” or the Neshama Soul of Moshe on Planet Earth. 

As such Moshe, as we also may, kept in constant touch with the Divine One for man, created in the Image of G-d, has always had direct line access with the One G-d of Israel. If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with your cousins the Jews and the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future. 

This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

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The Prophet Jeremiah and the Five Guardians of Solomon’s Temple Treasures The Emeq HaMelekh – The Story of the Five Hebrew Priests who Hid the Treasures of Solomon’s Temple

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Go to Part Two – “The Emeq Ha Melekh – The Hiding of the Ark, the Furnishings and the High Priest Garments with the Sanctuary of the Congregations”

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04/14/2018

The Emeg HaMalekh - “The Hiding of the Ark, the Furnishings and the High Priest Garments with the Sanctuary of the Congregation

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 The Sepulchral Caverns of the Davidian Kings in Zedekiah’s Cavern 

The Prophet Jeremiah and the Five Guardians of Solomon’s Temple Treasures

Part Two

by Robert Mock MD

robertmock@biblesearchers.com

April, 2018 

Topics

Mishnah 1

The Grotto or Genizah of Solomon’s Temple

Inventory of the Tabernacle of the Congregation

King Josiah and the Ark of the Lord

The Valley of Achor

Zedekiah’s Cave and Solomon’s Grotto

The Gate Between the Two Walls

The Valley of Passengers

Did the Temple Guardians know there was to be another Temple?

Five Sacred Articles not found in the Second Temple

 Introduction 

In part one of this series we became acquainted with the fascinating document, Emeq HaMelekh and the role that five worthy men, Shimur Ha Levi, Haggai (Chaggai the Prophet), Zechariah son of Iddo, Zedekiah (Zidkiyah), Hezekiah (Hizkiyah), Hilkiyah, Ezra the Cohen, and Baruch son of Neriah the Scribe for the Prophet Jeremiah. 

Under the command of King Josiah during his reformation and cleansing of the Jewish Temple (Beit HaMikdash), the Torah was found.  The temple was restored and the Feast of Passover was reinstituted. After this time King Josiah instructed Jeremiah to institute a rescue operation for the treasures of Moses, David and Solomon that were in safekeeping in the temple.  

During this time the Wilderness Tabernacle was hid in a cave near the grave of Moses (Moshe) in site of Mount Nebo. There the Sanctuary of the Dwelling called the Mishkhan with the Ark of the Covenant included: 

  • The Stone Tablets of Moses (Moshe);
  • The Crown of the High Priest Aaron;
  • The Ephod, Breastplate, the Urim and Thummin of the High Priest’s garments;
  • The Altar of Incense;
  • The Golden Menorah;
  • The Qalal which held the ashes of the red heifer;
  • The Sapphire Rod;
  • The Silver Chest which held the garments of the High Priest;
  • Plus, other temple treasures that had been stored in the Genizah of Solomon’s (Shlomo)Temple and were stored in a concealed cave in the Valley of Achor. 

In this document we will explore the archeological explorations of Vendyl Jones as he searched for the Qualal, the ashes of the Red Heifer and the ark of the Covenant at the Valley of Achor. 

This latter site was the focal point of the search of Ron Wyatt below the Temple Mount (Haram As-Sharif).  Here was the Genizah site below the Holy of Holies in Zedekiah’s (Zidkiyah’s) Grotto or the Cavern deep beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was known as the Royal Quarries or Solomon’s Stables with their underground tunnels that went from the Gate between the two Walls to the Valley of Passengers. 

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Elisha witnessing the Ascension of Elijah with the Fiery Horses and Merkaba in the Valley of Passengers 

This tunnel was last used as an escape route by King Zedekiah on the 9th of Av as the forces of Nebuchadnezzar were destroying the Temple of Solomon.  Here in the Valley of Passengers was the site where Elijah was taken on an inter-dimensional journey on a Merkabah, a fiery chariot just moments after he threw his mantle to Elisha the Prophet; the heir to the prophetic mantle.  Here also was the site where John the Baptizer also with a special mantle, introduced his followers to the mahout (baptism) of water and fire. 

The second temple of Zerubbabel in the days of Nehemiah was known to be deficient in several areas in relations to Solomon’s Temple, especially since there was no anointing oil to anoint prophets or kings. 

The temple was eventually desecrated by the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes IV in the Abomination of Desolation which lead to the Maccabean Revolt, the restoration of the temple and the Festival of Chanukah (Hanukah) called the Festival of Lights. 

Mishnah 1 

  • “These are the vessels dedicated and concealed when the Temple was destroyed:
  • The Tabernacle and the Curtain,
  • The Holy Menorah,
  • The Ark of Testimony,
  • The golden Nameplate on Aharon the Cohen’s forehead;
  • The golden crown of Aharon the Cohen;
  • The Breastplate of Judgment;
  • The Silver Trumpets;
  • The Cherubim over the Ark of the Covenant; plus;
  • The Altar of burnt offerings,
  • The Curtain of the Communion Tent;
  • The Forks and the Bread Molds;
  • The Table [of the Showbread];
  • The Curtain of the Gate;
  • The Copper Altar, The Sacred Garments of Aharon which were worn by the Cohen Haggadic (High Priest) on the Day of Atonement;
  • The Pa'amonim (bells) and Ramona (pomegranates) on the hem of the robe [of the Cohen Gadol];
  • The holy vessels that Moshe made on Mount Sinai by the command of the Holy One;
  • The Staff of Moshe, and;
  • The Jar of the Manna. 

After the House of the L-rd was dedicated, according to the traditions of the Jews, the Sanctuary of the Congregation was kept in a guarded and sealed area below the Temple premises, in a virtual museum as the guarded treasure of the heritage of the Israelite people. 

When the House of the Lord was finished by Solomon (Shlomo), the Glory of HaShem (the Shekinah) filled the House.  The Glory of the L-rd filled the gold enclosed Inner Shrine called the Holy of Holiest. This Glory was with a manifestation that was greater than the Glory that filled the Holy Place in the Wilderness Tabernacle of the Congregation (the Mishkhan) with Moshe (Moses) at the base of Mount Sinai. (1 Ki. 8:6-10)

There beneath the two giant golden cherubim, the arching wings shielded the Golden Ark for twenty cubits from one wall to the other, where the Golden Ark of the Covenant was placed.  

The walls of the shrine were radiant as the Glory of HaShem flashed with a golden aura, dancing off the silhouettes of the carved relief images of cherubim, palms and calyxes on the walls and ceiling of the golden lined Inner Shrine. (1 Ki. 6:27-36) 

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The Entrance to the Grotto or Genizah of Solomon’s Temple 

The inventory of this Mishnah is an inventory not of the Temple of Solomon but of the Wilderness Tabernacle of the Congregation that was the residence of the Lord of hosts.  Using the revised chronology of the Astrophysicist, Barry Setterfield, the construction of the Tabernacle at Mount Sinai was about 1584 BCE.  The building of the Temple of Solomon was about 1012 BCE, or 572 years later.  

Within the Ark was contained only the Tables of Stone that the L-rd of host had given to Moshe (Moses).  The L-rd of hosts had now placed or anchored His Sefirot, or His Image, of the World of the Divine and as the ancients described, where it dwelled within the Temple of Solomon.  

Here the Lo-d of hosts literally brought the ‘Kingdom’ of the L-rd, called the Malkhut in the mystical traditions of Judaism, in the Shrine of the Holy of Holiest. 

In Hebrew, the root word for Shekhinah is Shakhan, which literally means “He dwelt.”  The Mishkhan or Tabernacle actually meant “The Dwelling Place of the Divine Presence.” Here the Shekinah came home and the Lord dwelt within the Temple built for Him.  

It was there that Shlomo (Solomon) asked the Lord for ‘wisdom’ to rule G-d’s people. (1 Ki. 3:2-15).  There the Levites disassembled the Tabernacle and brought it also to Jerusalem and placed it in the quarry beneath the Temple complex.  

The Mishkhan, the former Wilderness Tabernacle at Sinai, was now placed in retirement beneath the Holy of Holiest, under the Ark of the Covenant and Solomon’s Quarry, a former limestone quarry where stones for the temple were made became the Genizah or the Sepulcher for the Tabernacle. It is supposed that the place where the Lord of hosts spoke to Abraham as he stood over Isaac on Mount Moriah became the site of the future Holy of Holiest in Solomon’s Temple. The site of the museum depository for the Tabernacle became the footstool for the Lord of hosts. 

According to the Mishnah III and Rambam II, in the section Parah, it was written that the Tabernacle of the Congregation and Qalal [Ashes of the Red Cow] were positioned "Deep, deep below the outer court of the House." 

This would place the location of the entombed Tabernacle, in Solomon’s Genizah, in the Grotto carved out of the mountain between the Temple.  There the Tabernacle was positioned directly under the site of the Inner Shrine where the Ark of the Covenant was located in the Holy of Holiest directly above.  

Here was a living symbol, an earthly type/anti-type of a greater type/anti-type in another spiritual dimension called the Heavenly Tabernacle.  As the earthly Temple on top of Mount Moriah rested the Wilderness Tabernacle deep within the bowels of the mountain, so also the Israelite could envision the heavenly Sanctuary in that spiritual dimension resting over the Temple of Solomon.  

When did the Shekhinah Glory of G-d leave the Holy of Holiest?   We do not know.  Was at the division of the kingdom into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms?  Was it at the invasion of Jerusalem by Sheshank, the Pharaoh of Egypt when the Ark of the Covenant was secreted down to an undisclosed location?  

What we do know is that the Ark of the Covenant was not in the Most Holy Place at the end of the reign of the wicked but later repentant King Manasseh and that King Josiah, his son, had it brought out of the secret dwelling place within the bowels of the Mount beneath the Temple.  

What we also do know it that neither the Shekhinah Glory nor the Ark of the Covenant was within Jerusalem when the forces of Nebuchadnezzar encircled the city at the first invasion in 605 BCE.  

What we now know, we have an inventory near the time of the fall and destruction of Jerusalem of what remained in the National Museum of the United Monarchy of Israel"of their most prized and treasured possessions, the relics of the Wilderness Tabernacle built by Bezaleel under the direct supervision of Moses, using the blueprints given direct by the hand of the Lord of hosts.

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Inventory of the Tabernacle of the Congregation 

Here is the Tabernacle inventory: 

  • The Wilderness Tabernacle and the Curtain that separated the holy and sanctified premises of the tabernacle complex. 
  • The Holy Menorah or golden seven candled candelabra. 
  • The Ark of the Testimony (Covenant) which housed the Tablet engraved by the laser finger of the Lord of hosts. 
  • The golden crown of the High Priest, Aharon, the priest and brother of Moses. 
  • The twelve-jeweled encrusted Breastplate of Judgment that was worn on the chest of the High Priest with the Urim and the Thummin. 
  • The silver trumpet, a metal so rare in the golden kingdom of Egypt that its worth was far greater than the gold of Egypt. 
  • The Cherubim that sat over the chest of the Ark of the Testimony 
  • The golden Altar of burnt offerings. 
  • The Curtain of the Communion Tent. 
  • The forks and the bread molds. 
  • The golden Table of the Showbread. 
  • The Curtain of the Gate or the prized curtain in Egyptian gold that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. 
  • The Copper Altar 
  • The sacred garments of the Aharon that were worn by the High Priest on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. 
  • The Pa’amonim or bells and the Remain or the golden pomegranates sewn on the hem of the Cohen Gadol (High Priest) so that the Levites would know that he was still alive when he was ministering in the presence of the Lord in the Holy of Holiest at Yom Kippur. 
  • The holy vessels that Moses made on Mount Sinai by the direct command of the Lord of hosts. 
  • The staff, possibly the Sapphire Staff that was given to Moses by the Angel of the Lord at the Burning Bush. 
  • The jar of Manna.

"The Scribe Shaphan Reading the Book of the Law to King Josiah" by Leonaert Bramer (1622)

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King Josiah and the Ark of the Lord 

Let us now return to 11 Maccabees 2 and refresh our memory of this historical notation recorded about 165 BCE.  

11 Maccabees 2: 4-5 - “It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet (Jeremy), being warned of G-d, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of G-d.  

“And when Jeremy came thither, he found a hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.” 

That is not all, for there are other writings.  As 11 Maccabees 2 continues, on the eve of the celebration of the first festival of Chanukah in 165 BCE, called the Festival of Lights, the Maccabean authors penned these words: 

11 Maccabees 2:13-14: “These same facts are set out in the official records and in the memoirs of Nehemiah.  Just as Nehemiah collected the chronicles of the kings, the writing of prophets, the works of David, and royal letters about sacred offerings, to found his library, so Judas (Maccabees) also has collected all the books that had been scattered as a result of our recent conflict.  These are in our possession, and if you need any of them send messengers for them.” 

Are the official records and the memoirs of Nehemiah, the same as the Book of Chronicles and the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament or the Hebrew TaNaKh?  

Where is the Library of Nehemiah? Where is the Library of Judas Maccabees?  These libraries have yet to be discovered though archeologists have been searching for them in the vicinity of Qumran.  

It is still the disputed yet consensus that Qumran was the site of the main commune of the Essenes, the third party of the Jewish people.  As ultra-orthodox, they were firm in their belief that the purity of the priesthood in the Herodian Temple had been defiled by the Herodian and Sadducean family hierarchy.  

They were using the temple as the greatest money laundering and scam operation in Jewish history, all in the name of their L-rd. As such, the Essenes, who were contemporary and probably the party of John the Baptiser and Yehoshua, the Haredi Orthodox itinerant rabbi cousin called “The Nazarene”, believed and wrote in all their writings that the purity of the priesthood and the restoration of the Temple would be still the future to their day. 

In the beginning passages of the Copper Scroll, the site of where the treasures are hidden is mentioned as the Valley of Achor. 

The Valley of Achor 

“In the desolations of the Valley of Achor, under the hill that must be climbed, hidden under the east side, forty stones deep, is a silver chest, and with it, the vestments of the High Priest, all the gold and silver with the Great Tabernacle (the “Mishkhan”) and all its Treasuries.” 

It was in the Jewish year 3323 that the Prophet Jeremiah gave instructions to Good King Josiah that it was imperative to remove the Ark of the Covenant from the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Solomon.  

The underground chambers below the Temple complex were lined with grottos and tunnels; the largest called Solomon’s Stable, which is the size of several soccer fields. These man-made grottos were adjacent and contiguous with the natural cavern system hidden deep in the recesses of Mount Moriah. 

These limestone caverns, similar to the Mammoth cave system in the state of Kentucky, traverse for many miles, most of which have not been explored fully to this day.  Being in an active seismic zone, in which many earthquakes have been recorded throughout the millenniums, many of these caverns have now collapsed, while many of them were sites where the limestone was quarried to be used for the construction of the Temple. 

Here deep within the recesses of the mountain, the Ark of the Covenant was placed for safekeeping.  Also in this location was also the Mishkhan, the Wilderness Tabernacle, which was placed there in safekeeping by King Solomon as a national treasure and museum.  

Mishnah, Sotah 9a - “…With regard to Moses the Master said: “After the First Temple was erected, the Tent of Meeting was stored away, its boards, hooks, bars, pillars, and sockets.”  Where?  Rabbi Hisda said in the name of Abimi; “Beneath the crypts of the Temple…”

Since that day, no record within the Bible records anything else about the Ark of the Covenant.

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Entrance to Zedekiah's Cave, Jerusalem Israel ( Wikimedia Commons )

Zedekiah’s Cave was first rediscovered in 1854 by an American physician, Mr. Barkley and his son as they followed their dog that disappeared into grotto’s entrance near the northern wall of the Temple Mount.  One hole after another and this physician became the first modern explorer of this grotto and cavern system.  

Though most scholars believe that the present-day grotto extends only from the northern wall to under the center of the Temple Mount, more recent explorers including Ron Wyatt and Vendyl Jones testify that that this cavern system is pocketed with other tunnels, now partially blocked traversing to regions unknown.  

That this cavern system was known to the ancients is testified by Maimonides, the famous Spanish rabbi who wrote: 

Maimonides. Mishnah Torah, Book of Techora, Hilchot Para Aduma 2, 10 - “...the whole Temple Mount with its courts was empty inside in fear of the graves of the abyss…” Mount of Anointment (Mount of Olives) also - sh.b.b. 

According to Maimonides, the sanctity of the Temple area remained even though the physical temple had been destroyed.  Here the Grottos were called the Inner Court of the Temple and they could be defiled by entering-into the inner sanctum below the Holy of Holiest. 

As left in the legacy of the numerous visits by biblical authors and explorers of ancient Land of Israel, we learn the following: 

  • There is a large cave in the city of Jerusalem that was used for by Solomon as a quarry. It is likely that Solomon used the stone from this cave to build the temple in Jerusalem. However, there are other quarries in the Jerusalem area that may have also contributed to the Temple. Prince Yehoshua Ha Dovid, stated that not even one stone of the temple would be left upon another when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. If we had a piece of stone from Solomon's temple, we could determine exactly where it was quarried from. But we do not, and likely never will. 
  • Josephus Flavius, refers to it as the "Royal Caverns." 
  • In the 10th century, the Damascus Gate was called "the Gate of the Grotto." 
  • In the 15th century, the cave was a textile storage area called "the Cotton Grotto." 
  • In the 16 century, the Ottoman Turks sealed the cave until it was discovered by Dr. Barclay while walking with his son and dog. The dog started digging at the entrance of the cave while tracking a fox. 
  • Although this is often called "Zedekiah's Cave", there is nothing in the Bible that connect Zedekiah with any kind of cave. The story in Jeremiah 39:4; 2 Kings 25:4 is often suggested, but clearly not related. 

Moses Maimonides, Book of Avodah, Hilchot Beit Habechirah, 7, 7. -

Jews entering the Inner Court of the Temple while impure risking the punishment of Kareit (cutting off of the soul). 

“Even though the Temple is destroyed…a Jew is obligated to revere the Temple as if it were built.  Only enter the permitted places and do not sit in the Azarah…as it says, ‘guard My Sabbath and revere My Temple’, just as the Sabbath is forever, so too is the reverence for the Temple eternal, even though it has been destroyed. 

Within the cave itself is evidence of three types of limestone, the pure white massif limestone, called “Melekh” for King or Royal Limestone that was used in royal, religious and diplomatic buildings as it was soft enough for carving but would not flake. 

Near the entrance is a denser and softer limestone, called “Missi-helou” or ‘sweet’ limestone used for smaller ornamental work.  Then there was a ‘red’ limestone impregnated with iron ore that was called “Mizzi-Yehudi” or ‘Jewish’ limestone that is commonly used in building construction even today, giving Jerusalem that pink hue as it reflects the sunrays on a clear evening at dusk.  

The Royal Quarries as they were called in the Palestine Exploration Fund of 1866, was reported by Major Condor:

"Jerusalem, as is well known, is honeycombed with excavated caves, natural caverns, cisterns cut in the rock, subterranean passages and aqueducts In its underground chambers and catacombs it is richer than any known city. 

In Jerusalem the excavated chambers and caves were for three purposes. Some of them, especially the Bahr el Khebar were for the supply of water. Those outside the city were for burial places, while those under the city, the vast caverns known as the ‘Royal Quarries’ were actually used as quarries for the stone used in building. 

The entrance to them is by an opening so low that it is necessary to stoop, but the height rapidly increases…The evidence of the place having been used as a quarry are very plain and numerous, the cuttings about four or five inches wide still remaining, and on the left hand side of each cutting may be observed a little hollow formed at the corner into which a wick and oil lamp may have been placed. 

The entrance to these caverns, known also by the name of "Solomon’s Quarries" because it is supposed that the stones for the Temple were prepared there is a little to the East of the Damascus Gate and opposite to Jeremiah’s Grotto." 

Only two years earlier, Rev J.D. Newman, 1864 was a visitor in the city of Jerusalem and left his account. 

Rev J.D. Newman, 1864: - “But of all the objects of interest which met my eye during my tour of the walls, none was more thrilling than the "Great Cave" beneath Jerusalem, the entrance to which is just east of the Damascus Gate.  

In constructing the north wall of the city, the Hill Bezetha has been cut through the solid rock to the depth of forty feet, the excavation having been extended 600 feet east and west, and 450 north and south….    

Accompanied by the American consul and a single servant, we entered the cave without difficulty, and, lighting our wax tapers, proceeded along carefully for a hundred feet, when we began rapidly to descend.  To our surprise, on our right sat an Arab maiden who had become the sibyl of the cavern, surrounded by several natives, to whom she was delivering her sibylline oracles. 

Rapidly descending toward the southeast, we soon found ourselves in cave three thousand feet in circumference, more than a thousand feet in length, and more than half that distance in breadth.  

The air was damp; the darkness that of a ray less night; the ground on which we walked was strewn with the chippings of the quarrier; the walls around us were marred with marks of the chisel, and the ceiling above us adorned with stalactites of a rose-color hue, from which trickled the percolating waters of the city.while, disturbed by our approach, bats screamed their grief and flapped their long black wings against their solid nests.  

Moving southward, we came to the verge of a precipice a hundred feet across and fifteen feet deep, on the bottom of which the skeleton of some lost explorer had been found.  Threading a long gallery on the left, we saw a fountain as deep as it was wide, partially filled with water strongly impregnated with lime.  

Turning eastward, we entered a second gallery of greater depth, in the sides of which are immense blocks of limestone, in part detached from their native bed, just as they were left by the unknown quarrier thousands of years ago. Here, as elsewhere, were the unmistakable marks of a broad chisel-shaped instrument, evidently used to detach the blocks on either side and at top and bottom, and then by the pressure of a lever the mass was broken off from the rock behind.  

Occasionally we passed huge pillars supporting the ceiling above, and in several instances, I saw blocks hewn and squared ready to be hoisted to their destination. 

On the right and left winding passage-ways led us to noble halls, white as snow, and supported by native piers, on which are engraved the cross of some Christian pilgrim or knight of the Crusades; and on the sides of the chambers are Hebrew and Arabic inscriptions, the memorial of some wandering Jew and some conquering son of the Prophet….

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The Underground layout of Solomon’s Quarry called Zedekiah’s Cave

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Drawing on Zedekiah’s Cave by Ron Wyatt 

Being unquestionably a quarry, many facts lead to the conclusion that here were hewn the stones for the construction of Solomon's magnificent temple.  The material, both as to grain and color, is the same as that found in the antique walls and buildings of the city; the extent of the quarry, together with the vast amount of stone removed, and in such large blocks, suggest the erection of some grand temple; the ancient tradition coming down from the days of Jeremiah and pointing to this quarry. 

The remarkable absence of another adjacent to the city; and the important fact that the mouth of the quarry is many feet higher than the surface of the Temple area, which must have facilitated the transportation of those immense blocks of limestone, which were no doubt conveyed on rollers down the inclined plane of the quarry to the site of the Temple, where, hewn and finished, they were silently elevated to their destined place - the magnificent fame of Solomon, with all its courts and porticoes, rising noiselessly into being, as of old the world rose from naught, at once explaining and fulfilling the words of sacred history: "The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought hither, so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was building." 

Compare the 1864 account of Reverend Newman now with the recent account by explorer Ron Wyatt who has gained much fame his claims of seeing the Ark of the Covenant and all the Temple furniture within these cavern systems below the mount, yet even though his untimely death in 1999, his estate has not released any evidence of these claims. Even so the historical account of Zedekiah’s Cave is much different after 140 years.

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Zedekiah’s Cave under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem 

Ron Wyatt - “This vast cavern is located underneath the Muslim section of the city, extending 750 feet into "Mt. Moriah", and beginning at the trench or dry moat separating the northern and southern portion. It is 325 feet wide at the maximum point and the average height is almost 50 feet. It was clearly a stone quarry, but at what point it was in use, we really do not know. 

There are those who believe its stone was used in the first temple, and that may be true. But its existence was not a well-known fact and most likely it was always kept completely sealed for fear of any enemies trying to tunnel into the city. So, little is known for sure about the giant quarry, but one point everyone agreed on was the fact that there was no entrance into the city from the quarry. 

Viewing the diagram (below) of its layout, the dark areas are pillars of solid rock left in place to support the ceiling, like the pillars left in a coal mine. As the miners work their way back out of the mine after depleting it of all it's coal, they remove these pillars of coal and the mine usually caves in. These were obviously left in place to prevent the cavern from collapsing since part of the northern city is above it. 

Ron wondered if there were any tunnels leading from the quarry. If so, perhaps the Ark and other items had been lowered through the hole from the area north of the temple mount into the cavern, and then through a tunnel to its present location. So, he began to look for tunnels. And sure enough, he found one. 

Almost completely hidden from view by boulders and overhanging rock, there was an opening into the cave wall that was sealed with several large cut rocks and it was heading in the right direction. But it was a long way from the site Ron had worked in all those years. If this was indeed the tunnel which led to the chamber, Ron would have quite a project ahead of him in clearing such a long tunnel.” 

Over the years, and after many devastating earthquakes, it is assumed that many of these passages are now closed and collapsed.  Many ancient writing called this the sepulchral cavern of the Kings.  

In the Rabbinic writings, in Erubin, 61, 61b, it mentions ‘the great cavern of Zedekiah.”  Yet exploration over the last one and a half centuries testify that even below this grotto there is an enormous reservoir of water flowing in vaulted chamber below.  Vilnai, Dr. Zeev, Jerusalem, the Old City, Jerusalem, 1970) Image011

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Cherub Drawing found in Zedekiah’s Cave   

Cherub Carving on Ivory - Samaria 

In 1874, a French archeologist, Charles Clermont-Ganneau explored the cavern system making sketches and drawing of the site. He discovered a carving on the wall near the mouth of the cave depicting a cherub, the winged, lion-like creature described in the Bible as part of the Ark of the Covenant and whose motif is found in the royal palaces of Assyria, Babylon and Persia. 

 

The Ivory Palace of Ahab in Samaria had similar carving left in ivory as reflected in comparison and reflects the iconoclastic images used in the First Temple period. This etching was removed and taken to the Palestine Exploration Fund Offices in London. There is also some suggestion of early burial caves here.  

During the days of the Hasmonean rulers and King Herod, the use of the quarry was again apparently put into use.  The stone on the Temple Mount, thought to be Herodian match the size and grain of the limestone and the indentation marking of the stones in the quarry.  

In 1989, Israel J. Herman, MEComp spoke to the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of Israel on King Solomon’s Quarries. Reprinted in The Israeli Freemason, it records; 

“The Freemasons, believing that the cave does indeed go back to Solomon's reign, called the cave King Solomon's Quarry and, since Solomon is considered the first Freemason, they have used the wide, high-ceilinged central chamber for ceremonies since the late 19th century. 

The cave opening is beneath the north wall of the Old City of Jerusalem; close to the Damascus Gate. From the entrance, the main path leads south for nearly 225 meters (~740 ft) till it reaches the main large cave called "The Freemasons Hall." 

From this hall, it bears east, leading to the dripping spring and the lowest place of the cave. The known area of the cave is about 900 m² (~10,000 square feet) 

One of the methods for hewing the stones was to carve broad slits along the rock face, and to drive dry wooden wedges into them. Water was then poured over the dry wedges, so causing them to swell. The resulting pressure then cracked the stone along the slits. This primitive method of quarrying was quite effective, and traces of it can still be found in the cave. 

The cave-quarry is quite close to the Temple Mount, and even, large stones could have been transported to the Temple construction site. Furthermore, it is known from the first book of Kings that it was forbidden to use any iron tools in the actual 'on site' construction of the Temple, nor was the sound of such permitted to be heard. This cave would be the ideal place for quarrying and dressing the stones for the Temple, while meeting with those requirements.” 

This cave, since the days of the British Mandate, was used in the yearly august ceremony for the consecration of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of Israel, with the exception of the years from 1948, when the British were driven out by the Israelis, to 1968, after the war of 1967, when the Israeli once again had possession of the entire city of Jerusalem.  Also, yearly the Mark Master Mason ceremony is conducted. 

As inscribed in the Copper Scroll, they were hidden in the last chamber on the western wall of the cavern system beneath the Cave of the Column. According to the translators, an artificial bonding wall was created to seal the exit to Zedekiah cave and produce a camouflage so that only a small exit escape shaft, well hidden, to allow the remainder of the treasury guardians to escape.  

The Gate between the Two Walls

In the Jewish year, 3331, nine years later, the Lord of hosts instructed the Prophet Jeremiah that he and over 250 of the fittest Levites in the Land of Israel were to begin an ultra-secret mission to hide the national treasures of the Israelite people which were built by Moses on the plains around Sinai and King David in preparation of building the Temple of Yahweh. 

The first mission was conducted by the Prophet Jeremiah himself. A small and select contingency of Levites probably under the command of the most carefully selected Tzaddiks in the country; Shimur HaLevi, Zedekivahu, Yizkiyahy, Chaggai the Prophet and Zachariyah the son of Iddo the Prophet were selected to carry the following: 

  • Mishkhan, the Wilderness Tabernacle,
  • The Golden Menorah that was engraved by the Master Craftsman, Bezaleel,
  • The golden nameplate that went on the forehead of the High Priest,
  • The golden crown of Moses’ brother, Aaron, the High Priest,
  • The Breastplate with the Urim and Thummin, the sacred oracle stones which G-d communicated with the High Priest including the all the articles used in the service of the Wilderness Tabernacle,
  • The garments of the High Priest,
  • The vessels of gold made by Bezaleel under the instructions of Moses,
  • The Staff of Aaron and the Golden Jar of Manna and to deposit them in a specially designed cavern with false walls and fronts to seal it off from the enemies of the Lord. 

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Gate Between Two Walls as discovered by Vendyl Jones and son, Gershom - Photo by Max Richardson 

A terse description of this event was recorded in 11 Maccabees 2:2-6 of removing these priceless articles that were almost a thousand years old at that time, carrying them through almost 19 miles of natural caverns to be placed in a large grotto near the exit of the cavern system in the Valley of Achor. 

Vendyl Jones - “This cavern, which begins only a few meters north of the Damascus Gate and descends steeply eastward under the Temple Mount, continues for almost 30 kilometers or 19 miles then exits in the Valley of ‘Achor.  Entrance from the Jerusalem end is restricted and the exit in the Valley of ‘Achor is obscurely concealed. The simplest explanation can be found in the historical biblical information available.  The Babylonian army had surrounded Jerusalem and was breaking down the walls.  The only escape route was through this cavern.  Therefore, a gate should be found between the two walls of the cavern…  

Though the cave was mammoth in breadth, its ceiling was only a few feet overhead.  Flakes of stone were piled high and deep from the northern to the southern walls. These rock chips almost completely filled the mouth of the cave…. 

Gershom and I proceeded forward, descending and exploring one chamber and passage at a time.  When visiting hours were over, we had merely begun our exploration.  I do not remember how many days we returned, arriving very early and staying until closing time.  We were not just sightseeing; we were searching for that gate between the two walls.  Sometimes we were digging with our hands and pitching rock chips, hoping to find an undiscovered chamber… 

We decided to separate – Gershom would explore the North side of the cave and I would investigate the South chambers.  Finally, the solitude and silence were broken.  I could faintly hear him calling, “Dad, Dad, come on.” 

We know about this passage way as it was used as a secret escape route by King Zedekiah (Zidkiyah) when he tried to flee from the royal forces of Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE.  Here is the record of this escape. 

11 Kings 25:4-5 - “(The wall of) the city was breached, and all the men of war (fled) by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the king’s garden. Now, the Chaldeans were against the city round about, and (Zidkiyah, the king) went the way toward the plain (Aravah). And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plain (Aravah) of Jericho…” 

On the ninth day of the fourth month (9th of AV) in the Jewish year 3338, King Zedekiah, with the remnant of his royal body guards fled through this grotto and tunnel system, passed through the “gate between the two walls”. 

The history of the Jewish people is consistent in their legends that King Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, tried to escape the Babylonian siege, following a secret tunnel from here all the way to Jericho. Redak and Rashi, Talmudic scholars, wrote that it was the intention of the Lord of hosts that Zidkiyah was to be caught by the Babylonian. As states: 

"There was a cave from the palace of Zedekiah to the plain of Jericho and he fled through the cave, and G-d caused a buck to walk on the roof of the cave and the Chaldeans followed the buck. When they reached the cave opening in the plain of Jericho, Zedekiah was emerging. They saw him and captured him." 

The Book of Kings continues on with the story that the king was forced to watch the murder of his sons and then his eyes were blinded.  The legends account that the percolating water dripping into a basin carved in the quarry wall is known now as Zedekiah's Tears, depicting his grief over the city and his children lost because he did not follow the advice of the Prophet Jeremiah to submit to the authority of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar. 

A fascinating account of exploring this tunnel system by Vendyl Jones and his son was recorded in an article called The Gate between Two Walls, our first discovery.  In this article records the first discovery of the Gate between Two Walls.  

For 2390 years there was no historical record of the whereabouts of this gate until 1967, the Jewish year 5728, just after the Jewish people took full possession of the city of Jerusalem. 

The exit to this cavern system that ascended up the mountain terrain back towards Jerusalem is unknown, but many scholars suggest that this is the exit from the Cave of Zidkiyah, where the king of Judah fled that fateful day.  

Some sources state that the exit opening is over 7 meters high (23 feet) and 20 meters (66 feet) wide.  In the days of Moses, this would have been a gaping hole or grotto in the sides of the mountain, quite visible from Mount Nebo five miles on the other side of the Jordan River.    

Yet according to the Midrashim, the tunnels and caverns that led to the plain near Jericho did exist.  In the Midrash Tanchumah to Numbers 3, this cavern goes for about 12 mill or 8 English miles, and in Midrash Rabbah, states that the same cavern traverse for almost 18 mill or 12 English miles from Jerusalem. 

The traveler from Leghorn of the year 5282 (1522 CE), is quoted as saying: 

"Not far from the Bab al Amud, is the cave of Zedekiah, which extends under - ground to the mountains near Jericho. Several persons told me, that they themselves had walked a mile in the same. It is so spacious that a man on horseback with a lance in his hand can ride through it quite comfortably." 

Less than a mile north of Bab al Amud, is a sepulchral monument in a cave called the Kalba Seboa, recorded in Gittin, 56a, is suggest by many to be the cave of Zedekiah.  It is recorded that in 5607 (1847 CE), a group of Arabs were digging near this cave when they stumbled upon a vault buried deep in the ground that filled with gigantic human bones, of a race of humans with great stature.  The Pacha halted and forbad any further digging and the cave was closed up. This area is recognized as an area with sepulchers of kings.  

One-half mile north of Kalba Seboa, is another sepulchral cave with dual chambers on top of another, in which carved in the bedrock are seventy niches, called the cave of the Seventy Sanhedrin.  This manner of burial, with sepulchral vaults in niches above and alongside each other, is described in the Mishnah of Baba Bathra 6,§8. Yet who were the Seventy Elders, what era, and whether this was used for some other social group or family.  

Many rabbis in the Land today firmly believe that the Ark of the Covenant is lying beneath the Temple Mount in one of the side grottos or chambers that are honeycombed within the caverns.  

Ron Wyatt, the American Adventist respiratory therapist, turned amateur archeologist, claimed he found the Ark of the Covenant in a sarcophagus type box within this grotto and beneath a site where he claims that Jesus was crucified. Yet, according to Vendyl Jones, the sources carefully state the following words, “hidden in a secret passage under Har-HaByet.” 

How can this be explained?  As we have noted prior, the Ark of the Covenant was a small portable ark and we do not know whether another ark was built for the Holy of Holiest in which the Ark of the Covenant may have resided within.  

Many ancient traditions state that duplicate Arks were built, the most famous, as some have suggested, was a duplicate Ark was built for the son of Solomon and Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, whose capital city was Axum, Ethiopia.  It was their son, Menelik, called Bayna-Lehkem, who became the eventual ruler of Ethiopia, yet accomplished the biggest heist in religious history, which according to The Kebra Nagast, a thirteenth century documents, the abduction of the Ark of the Covenant, which in this manuscript does not record any duplicate, instead, they replaced the Ark with a pile of lumber, hid under the covering of the Ark. 

Yet, the record of the Emeq Ha Melekh appears to have the most authenticity and reliability of any ancient record concerning the final resting place of the Sanctuary of the Congregation and the Mosaic Ark of the Covenant.  Here the final resting place of the Ark is in the Valley of Achor

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The Valley of Passengers near the Valley of Achor 

The Valley of Passengers is a vale which Jewish tradition records as the inter-dimensional power house of cosmic events in ancient Jewish history.  Lying just south of Mount Nebo, the last recorded place where Moses stood as he was given a visionary view of the future God’s chosen people, is where Jewish writing place the secret grave of Moses.  It was here that the Letter of Jude records that the archangel Michael came to this spot and debated with the devil over the possession of Moses’ body. (Jude 9) 

Yet it was also in the Valley of Passengers where Elijah mounted the fiery cherubim and gave his mantle to Elisha. Is it not unusual that also near this site, also in the Vale of Achor where Josephus records that John the Baptist performed a mikhvoat, a bath of purification or baptism in the Jordan River. (Dell Griffin, Kingdom, Power and Glory, unpublished, p 123) 

“He commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness toward one another, and piety towards G-d, and so to come to baptism; for that the washing would be acceptable to him, if they made use of it, not in order to the putting away of some sins but for the purification of the body supposing that the soul was thoroughly purified beforehand by righteousness.”  (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Bk 18, Ch 5:2)

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The Valley of Achor (Wadi En-nuweine) in Israel

Is it not of coincidence that John the Baptist, with his mantle of camel’s hair, carried the torch and power of Elijah, who also carried with him an identical camel’s hair mantle?  According to the Talmud, the mantle of Elijah along with the tunic of the High Priest was kept in storage in the Ark of the Incense in the Wilderness Sanctuary. 

Is this the same as the Altar of Incense that Jeremiah placed in hiding near the Mount Nebo and the grave of Moses? (11 Maccabees), (Ibid 121) Is this Altar of Incense the same as the Altar of Burnt Offering as recorded in the Emeq Ha Melekh?  

Did the Essenes have access this Altar of Incense/Burnt Offering and was the mantle of camel’s hair by John the Baptist the same mantle of Elijah, the greatest prophet of Israel? 

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The Valley of Achor was also called the Valley of Passengers also known as Gey – Hamon - Gog 

This same vale, the Valley of Passengers is also known as Gey-Hamon-Gog, situated near the Jordan River on the border between the nations of Israel and Jordan. This site is depicted as the burial ground reserved for Gog (Ezekiel 39:11) in the Gog-Magog War that prophetic scholars are anticipating in the near future.  

This site is called Ammon-Gey-Don, where the Israelites will take seven months to bury the dead armies of Gog so that the land can be cleansed. (Ibid 123)   

Did the Temple Guardians know there was to be another Temple? 

The Prophet Haggai, now a revered Tzaddik (righteous man) in the Land of Israel, began to speak oracles of encouragement to the Jewish remnant who were struggling to re-establish a foothold back in the land of their forefathers and to erect a new Temple to the worship of the G-d of their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  

Haggai 2:5-9 -

2:5 - “According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. 2:6 - For thus saith the Lord of hosts (HaShem Tzavaot - also called The Lord, Master of Legions); yet once, it is a little while and I will shake (future to their day) the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 

2:7 - And I will shake all nations, and the desires of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. 

2:8 - The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. 

2:9 - The glory of this latter house (Later date to the Temple of Zerubbabel, which was called the Ezekiel Temple) shall be greater than of the former (former to the Temple of Zerubbabel, the Temple of Solomon) saith the Lord of hosts; and in this place, will I give peace, saith the Lord of host. 

Here the ancient Tzaddik with the wisdom of the knowledge of the prior era of Jewish history, which he also knew as a participant in the Temple life of Solomon’s temple, talks of a time in the future when this temple will be built.  Haggai was keenly aware of the present house, the Temple of Zerubbabel, a former house, the Temple of Solomon and that there would be a physical latter house.  

Only two times did the Glory of the Lord fill the temple or sanctuary of the Lord.  The first was at Mount Sinai with Moses (Moshe) and the second was upon the completion of the Temple of Solomon (Shlomo).  The Jewish sages have concluded that Haggai was speaking of the apocalyptic end of times and Temple of the Lord that would be built in those days, whose beauty and magnificence would rival all the wonders of the world that have been built in the historical ages.  

The prophet Amos revealed one thing about the intent of the Lord of hosts. 

Amos 3:7 - “Surely HaShem will do nothing unless He reveals it first to His servants, the Prophets.” 

Yet a little noticed wording in the Book of Haggai, suggests part of his message was about a later and more glorious House of the Lord.  

Haggai 2:18 - “Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it from this day I will bless you.” 

Yet according to the historical record, when was the foundation of the Temple of Zerubbabel laid?  In the Book of Ezra 3:6, 8, 10-11 it confirms that the temple foundation of the Second Temple was laid on the 2nd month of the 2nd year of Darius. It also records in Ezra 6:15, that the temple was competed on the 3rd day of the 12th month of Adar, during the rule of Darius. 

What was this discrepancy? The Book of Ezra states that the foundation of the Temple of Zerubbabel was laid on the 2nd month of the 2nd year of Darius and yet, Haggai stated that it was laid on the 24th day of the 9th month.  What temple was he talking about?  

Haggai then poses two questions to the Levites and priests, asking them to define what would defile a man from the outside and defile him from the inside.  Either one would render them unclean, said the Levite.  So, Haggai responded, 

Haggai 2:2:14 - “So this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands”.  This included the construction of the Temple in which an unclean people, from unclean nations built an unclean Temple. 

He also writes in Haggai 2:7, 9 -  

        2:7 - “And I will shake all the Nations. And the desire of all Nations will come. And I will fill this House with Glory, says             the Lord. ….

        2:9 - The Glory of this Latter House shall be greater than the Glory of the Former.” 

The historical documentation is clear that the glory of the Second Temple did not match up to the glory of the Temple of Solomon.  Yet this was not what they were talking about. The Glory of the House is actually stating the Glory that comes from the presence of the Lord of hosts residing within these walls. As we have noticed above, the only time the Glory of the Lord came to visit and to dwell was in the Wilderness Sanctuary of Moses and the Temple of Solomon.  

Yet, since the building of the Second Temple, the word of the ancient Hebrew prophets was silenced.  The Rabbabim in the Land of Israel are adamant to a voice that a prophet has not arisen with the people of Israel since the days of Ezra, Zechariah and Haggai. 

What we now know, there was no anointing oil and so no prophets were ordained to their prophetic role. There was no anointing oil and so no kings were anointed to the throne of Judah.  The Temple of Zerubbabel served more of a political national identity for the rulers of Judah and for the Jewish people as a nation.  

It must be noted that the mystical sages never did refer to the Second Temple as the “House of the Lord”.  One of the hallmarks of the diminished status of this temple was that there were five ‘Holy Objects” that were not found in the Second Temple. These include: 

Five Sacred Articles not found in the Second Temple 

  1. The Golden Ark of the Covenant with the covering Cherubim.  Within this Ark were the Torah tablets, the golden pot of manna and Aaron’s rod.
  2. The Silver Chest which included:  the garments of the High Priest Aharon, the Breastplate of twelve polished gemstones, the Ephod of the High Priest, and the Urim and Thummin where the High Priest had access to direct communication from HaShem.
  3. The Ashes of Moses’ red heifer.
  4. The Anointing Oil of the kings and the prophets.
  5. The Glory of the L-rd in the focal presence of the Shekinah flame on the Ark’s mercy seat.  

The inter-testament era, known as the era between the canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures by Ezra the scribe and the birth of the Prince of David Yehoshua was known to all the sages of Judaism as the era when the gift of prophecy left the Jewish people. 

Without the anointing oil, they could no longer anoint the prophets, the priests and the kings (the anointed ones).  After the remnant of the Jewish exiles returned from Babylon, no king of the House of David ever did sit and rule from the throne in Jerusalem. So also with the death of Haggai and Zechariah, no anointed prophets would be present to speak the “Word of the L-rd.” 

During this time, the Maccabean family called the Hashmonean did restore the Land of Israel to an autonomous era to the people of Israel, after decisively driving out the Syrian leader who was persecuting the Jewish population, Antiochus Epiphanes IV.  It was this Syrian ruler who also desecrated the Temple in Jerusalem, by sacrificing a pig on the altar in Jerusalem, in 175 BCE and converted the Temple into a sanctuary for the g-d Jupiter. This act of desecration, call the Abomination of Desolation, required that the temple complex undergo ritual purification and cleansing. 

Only after the temple and the Levites were cleansed in 165 BCE did the Jews participate in the joyous celebration of Chanukah. The Festival of the Lights, celebrating the day when the Great Menorah was relit for the first time when they had only enough purified oil for the lamps for one day.  Miracles upon miracles, the Menorah remained lit for an entire eight days. 

It was the Essenes that recognized that the Temple was to be controlled by a corrupt and illegitimate priestly family, who bought and sold their position as the High Priest of the Temple first from the Greeks and later from their Roman appointed rulers.  These families included: House of Ananias (Hananiah), the House of Jason, the House of Katros (Caiphas) and the House of Ishmael Ben Phiabi.  

According to the Talmud, “Because of these wicked priests, Heaven decreed the destruction of the Second Temple.” And so, the Lord of hosts prevented the Guardians of the Temple treasures from restoring these treasures to the Jewish people.  

They took the secret of where they hid the temple treasures to their graves, except for leaving behind a record of where these treasures were hidden: on a Copper Sheet, two marble tablets and the parchments that were preserved in later years in the Masakhet Keilim, and Tosefta (addition) to the Talmud about the 8th century CE. 

Destination Yisrael – “Slowly the Almighty One of Israel is opening the gates of the Supernal Realm surrounding the Throne of G-d. He is revealing to us a mini-vision of our future as we become one with Him in the future Millennium of the Great Shabbat.  

The struggles we will have within this era, will be to give up of ourselves, allow humility to become a part of our lives, for within each us is the sublime message that if we are willing to submit ourselves to His will, the power of the Divine will help us to jump the hurtles into our future. 

Then we realize that the Eternal One now reveals to us that the future of our Eternity was given to Metatron, He was the first of creation, the most Exalted Being of the heavenly realms. He was the Vizier to the Holy One of Israel as Vizier like Joseph was to the Pharaoh of old. 

Here is a majestic being who is in charge of running the Universes of the Divine.  And he was the same being that led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the mount called Sinai this time as a Pillar of Fire at night and a Cloud to shade the daytime.             

Metatron was the “Guide” to Moshe in the Wilderness. It was here where he helped to lead and guide the Great Redeemer of the Children of Israel. Metatron became the Neshama Soul of Moshe in heaven that was connected with the “Indwelling Soul” or the Neshama Soul of Moshe on Planet Earth.

As such Moshe, as we also may, kept in constant touch with the Divine One for man, created in the Image of G-d, has always had direct line access with the G-d of Israel. 

If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with your cousins the Jews and the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future. 

This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

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03/10/2018

The Emeq Ha Melekh (Valley of the Kings) The Hebrew Account of Hiding the Ark, the Sanctuary and the Treasures of Solomon’s Temple

 

Part One

by Robert Mock MD

robertmock@biblesearchers.com

March, 2018 

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Purported Site where Solomon’s Temple Treasures are Hidden

Topics

Jeremiah and the Maccabean account of hiding the Tabernacle and the Ark

The Luach Nehoshet (Copper Scroll)

The Discovery of the Emeq HaMelekh (“Valley of the Kings”)

Emeq Ha Melekh

Shimur HaLevi

The Ibex Skin Scroll (Temple Scroll)

The Two Marble Tablets

Zedekiah, Yahweh is Righteousness

Chaggai (Haggai the Prophet), One born on a Feast Day.

Zechariah, son of Iddo, Jehovah remembers at the Appointed Time 

Introduction 

The fate of the Ark of the Covenant has been a burning question pondering Bible scholars, theologians, biblical historians and archeologists since the exile of the Jewish people to Babylon in 586 BCE. 

The most prominent of these is Vendyl Jones and his search for the Qalal and the Sanctuary of the Congregation with its valued treasures including the Ark of the Covenant with its two golden cherubim. 

The most well- known account is found in the Maccabean story about the Prophet Jeremiah, who hid the contents of the Wilderness Tabernacle (Mishkhan); 

  1. The Ark of the Covenant,
  2. The Qalal which held the ashes of the red heifer in the Valley of Achor near the tomb of Moses (Moshe) not far from Mount Nebo.  

These were hidden because fate of the Temple of Solomon (Beit HaMikdash) was being threatened by the forces of Nebuchadnezzar, which many felt was built on the Temple Mount (Haram As-Sharif) in present-day Old Jerusalem.  

Over a century ago, Rabbi Rachnael Steinberg and Rabbi Mendel Tropper rediscovered the writings called the Emeq HaMelekh (Valley of the Kings) written by Rabbi Naftali Hertz in which several mishnahs were recorded by five temple guardians who hid the treasures of Solomon’s temple. 

Later, it was Solomon Schechter who discovered the ancient Talmud Tosefta, called the Massakhet Keilim in an ancient Genizah at the Old Cairo Ben Ezra Synagogue. 

Included in this discovery was an ancient scroll called the Temple Scroll that was purchased by Yigael Yadin. It was found in a cave by Mohammed Dieb near the Essene community of Qumran by the Dead Sea. 

Also discovered was:

  • The Copper Scroll,
  • The Luach Nehoshet,
  • Plus, two large engraved marble tablets found at Mount Carmel, that depicted the hiding of a vast hoard of temple furnishings and artifacts about ten years before the first invasion of Nebuchadnezzar. 

The Jewish Underground Commandos from the Temple of Solomon were sent on a rescue mission to hide all the temple furniture, the altars and the golden curtains that were a part of the priestly ministry in the Tabernacle of the Dwelling.

These five-priestly commandos are today legendary in their stealth and prowess to accomplish the mandate to safeguard the Treasures of King Solomon’s Temple. Their names were:

  • Shimur HaLevi,
  • Chaggai (Haggai) the prophet,
  • The Prophet Zechariah son of Iddo,
  • Zedekiah (Zidkiyah)
  • Hezekiah (Hizkiyah) plus
  • Ezra the scribe and
  • Baruch son of Neriah, the scribe of Jeremiah. 
  • The leader of this group, Shimur HaLevi, was one of the priests who killed two of
    the nine red heifers for the Ashes to purify the temple.  

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Jeremiah and the Maccabean account of hiding the Tabernacle and the Ark as Viewed from Mount Nebo 

As recorded in 11 Maccabees chapter 2:           

            1 – “It is also found in the records, that Jeremy the prophet commanded them that        were carried away to take of                     the fire, as it hath been signified: 

            2 – “And how that the prophet, having given them the law, charged them not to forget the commandments of                     the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds, when they see images of silver and gold, with their                     ornaments.  

            3 – “And with other such speeches exhorted he them, that the law would not depart from their hearts.  

            4 - “It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being warned of G-d, commanded the tabernacle and                    the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of G-d.

             5 – “And when Jeremy came thither, he found a hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the                     altar of incense, and so stopped the door. 

             6 – “And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but they could not find it.  

             7 – “Which, when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time                     that G-d gathers His people again together, and receive them unto mercy. 

             8 – “Then shall the Lord shew them these things, and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was                    shewed under Moses, and as when Solomon

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Jeremiah and the Maccabean account of hiding the Tabernacle and the Ark as Viewed from Mount Nebo

Let us analyze this text briefly. It is one position of BibleSearchers to analyze any ancient document with the same respect we would give to modern historical documents.  As a historian, one should look carefully at the historical context, the purpose and goal of the author and with an acceptance that the author had possible access of documents more contemporaneous with his era than has survived the ravages of time.

Here the prophet Jeremiah speaks of taking the wilderness tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant and the Altar of Incense and placing it in a hollow cave near Mount Nebo, the mount where Moses had his last vista of the Promised Land and visions of the future of God’s people. 

Deuteronomy 34:1-3 - “And Moses went up from the plains of Moav to the peak (Pisgah) of Mount Nebo, facing Jericho, and G-d showed him all the land of Gil’ad, to Dan, and all of the Naftali, and the land of Efrayim and Manashe, and all the land of Yehudah, as far as the sea, and the Negev, and the plain; the Valley of Jericho, city of palms, as far as Zo’ar”. 


Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, present day Jordan, has been identified with Jebel Nebah on the eastern shore and the northern end of the Dead Sea, five miles southwest of Heshbon.

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The Memorial Site of the Death of the Moshe on Mount Nebo

At about 2,643 feet in altitude and with its position overlooking the Jordan River, Nabo commands a view of all of western Palestine.  Below are the plains of Moab where Balaam cast his curse upon the tents of Israel spread out before him.

According to II Maccabees, the ‘cave dwelling’ was in the vicinity, but not necessarily on the peak of Mount Nebo, which also is an assumption that it is the place where Moses “went up and beheld God’s inheritance.” 

Near this Mount and with clear visibility of the church that resides on the peak of Mount Nebo is the Cave of the Column, where the main archeological digs have been performed by Vendyl Jones, Texan archeologist who earned international fame as being the archetype of the Indiana Jones movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. It was his Institute that was credited in discovering:

  1. The Holy Anointing Oil and the
  2. Holy Incense that was used on the Altar of Incense in the Most Holy Place of the Temple. 

Two places in the Maccabean passage it speaks of other documents, such as “found in the records” and “contained in the same writings”.  What were these documents and what records were contained in them?  This question has taunted the minds of scholars and students of Hebrew history for millenniums. 

It was a memorable year, 1947, when the modern State of Israel became the national homeland of the Jewish people.  That same year, 1947, an Arab Bedouin with a well-placed rock in a cave opening in an area called Qumran, on the northeastern shore of the Dead Sea, heard the shattering of a crock of pottery and the religious and secular world ricocheted with a global reverberation as the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. 

As quoted by the Bedouin cave hunter, Mohammed Dieb,

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The Rolled Copper Scroll

"I do not know how the story got started that I was throwing rocks at my goats. My goats were grazing down there in the flat. I was sitting right up there on that ledge. 

I was bored and started throwing rocks against some big stones to see if I could break them. One rock glanced off of a stone and went into a small opening and I heard a strange thud and a cracking sound. 

I came down and slid into the opening. The whole cave was full of jars. There were forty jars, but they were all empty except the ones here in the niche on the right side. We found seven scrolls. One of them was the scroll that Yadkin got from Kendo." Mohammed Dieb 

Five years later, in 1952, in cave 3 (Qvj3) at Qumran, a new archeological find was unearthed by the workers under the dig supervision of Professor Gerald Harding, a seven-foot copper Scroll was discovered.  Dubbed the “Copper Scroll”, it was kept in secret and the contents of this discovery were withheld from the public for four years. 

In this Copper Scroll, the ancient name of Qumran, Ir-Tzadok B’Succaca was recorded.  Ancient maps of the Dead Sea area depict the modern Wadi Qumran or the Canyon of Qumran rather as the Wadi Succaca. 

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The Luach Nehoshet (Copper Scroll)

The Copper Scroll in the Museum in Jordan

 Five years later, in 1952, in cave 3 (Qvj3) at Qumran, a new archeological find was unearthed by the workers under the dig supervision of Professor Gerald Harding, a seven-foot copper Scroll was discovered.  Dubbed the “Copper Scroll”, it was kept in secret and the contents of this discovery were withheld from the public for four years. 

In this Copper Scroll, the ancient name of Qumran, Ir-Tzadok B’Succaca was recorded.  Ancient maps of the Dead Sea area depict the modern Wadi Qumran or the Canyon of Qumran rather as the Wadi Succaca.  

The Adam Smith Bible Dictionary in the early 20th century identified Wadi Qumran as Wadi Succacah. The Yishiyim (Essenes) would have called their community by the ancient Aramaic name of Ir-Tzadok B’Succaca rather than the modern Arabic name of Qumran, meaning, ‘Two Moons”. 

 

The Copper Scroll was pressed from the purest of copper. From the back of the scroll and engraved in reverse script, the Hebrew letters when raised from the front and imprinted on a baked clay imprinted the script in legible Hebrew like the embossing of a printer’s ink pad on a sheet of paper.  This scroll was taken to Manchester, England, the baked clay dissolved and the copper rolls cut to expose the archaic Hebrew writing on the corroded copper sheets. 

Most of the text in the Copper Scroll read like the inventory of a treasure with enigmatic descriptions of where they were buried including listings of geographical, topographical and geological features to help the one knowledgeable in the language and vocabulary of the rabbinic literature to find the treasures outlined in the scroll. 

When the transcription was first released with wide international publicity, it was also met with intense scholarly skepticism, many calling it a ‘hoax’, a ‘forgery’, ‘Jewish myth’, ‘works of a madman’.

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The Caves of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Israel 

Most scholars, even to this day, feel that the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Copper Scroll are a repository of the Herodian temple library in Jerusalem and the contents of the Temple of the Lord that were secreted away prior to the destruction and ravaging by the Roman forces under Titus in 68-70 C.E.  

Yet the contents of the Copper Scroll depict a different picture. Here among the passages of the Copper Scroll was an inventory of the Holy Treasures that appeared to have been hidden by the Prophet Jeremiah and the Temple Guardians prior to the destruction of Solomon’s Temple by the Babylonians about 422 BCE according to Hebrew calendar time (538 BCE on the Gregorian calendar).  

Were the locations of these treasures never revealed and recovered for the services of Zerubbabel’s Temple by the Temple Guardians? If so, are they there today?  Among the contents of the Copper Scroll was this passage.  

“In the desolations of the Valley of Achor, under the hill that must be climbed, hidden under the east side, forty stones deep, is a silver chest, and with it, the vestments of the High Priest, all the gold and silver with the Great Tabernacle (the “Mishkhan”) and all its Treasures.” 

The Copper Scroll describes a hidden cave called the “Cave of the Column by the River of the Dome” and with these descriptions were given internal and external landmarks, layering levels and other descriptions that not only needed the proper interpretive codes to reveal their contents, but also a good knowledge of the history and rabbinic language used in that era.

The Discovery of the Emeq HaMelekh (“Valley of the Kings”) 

Was this Copper Scroll the “record” and the “same writing” as referenced in the II Maccabean passage? 

Jewish scholars still felt that there were more records to be found.  The hunt continued, but it was not until 1992 when Rabbi Rachnael Steinberg with his student Rabbi Mendel Tropper discovered in Amsterdam, Holland the long-lost writings called the “Emeq HaMelekh”, meaning the Valley of the Kings, that had been written by Rabbi Naftali Hertz Ben Ya’acov Elchanon in the year 1648 in Amsterdam.  

According to rabbinic history, “Rav Hertz” was known as a prominent and holy Rabbi who excelled in the knowledge of the written and the oral Torah.  His lineage of rabbinic knowledge came from the famed Rabbi Ari Ben Luria, leader of the rabbinic mystical sages which included the great Torah sage, Rabbi Yosef Cairo, author of the Shulchan Aruch.  

According to the records, Rabbi Naftali Hertz cited as his source the Massakhet Keilim, a Tosefta (addition) to the Talmud, which is not found in any modern Talmud today.

According to the discoverer of the Emeq HaMelekh, Rabbi Steinberg, in the Talmud Huriot 12A, it describes the prophet Jeremiah, realizing that the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple was imminent, organized a heroic rescue operation.  

He commanded the King of Judah, King Josiah, who had recently repaired the Temple of Solomon and found the ancient writings of the Torah hidden in the Temple;

  1. To hide the Ark of the Covenant,
  2. The bottle of Anointing Oil,
  3. Aaron’s Staff and the
  4. ‘Chest’ sent by the Pelishtim (Philistines) to Israel as “a gift to the God of Israel”. 

Rabbi Tropper, also citing also the Babylonian Talmud in Tractate Yoma 72 A, stated that the Mishkhan (Wilderness Sanctuary) and all its contents were hidden away but will one day be found. 

Yes, here the Mishkhan, or Wilderness Temple, which was built by Bezaleel in the Negev Desert, under the supervision of Moses and the blueprint given to him by the L-rd of hosts on Mount Sinai, was kept in a sacred repository in a grotto under the Temple of Solomon and was still preserved in the days of Jeremiah and King Josiah. 

In an article written by Rabbi Tropper, he writes the following: 

"This house of worship ("Mishkhan") contained 

(1) - The altar for the daily and seasonal sacrifices, 

(2) - The Elaborate Menorah (candelabra) of solid gold, 

(3) - The Qalal (copper urn) containing the Ashes of the Red Heifer, and; 

(4) – The numerous other vessels utilized for the detailed services of the Kohanim (priests). 

Within the Mishkhan's inner chamber, the Holy of Holies could be found: 

(5) The magnificent Ark of the Covenant containing among other sacred items, 

(6) The Tablets of the Ten Commandments brought down by Moses at Sinai. Because of these sacred contents and the level of holiness attained by the Prophet Moses, only the Mishkhan reached a pure enough state to warrant that the Shechina (Divine Presence of G-d) come to rest within it for all eternity. 

When the First Temple was built in Jerusalem, the Ark of the Covenant was placed inside while the rest of the Mishkhan was buried beneath in a secret vault."

The story does not end.  Later in the 1990’s, at Cambridge University was discovered work done by a Solomon Schechter in 1896, who had bought about 100,000 pages that had been discovered in a Genizah of the ancient and revered Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt. ccording to the Torah, any document contained the name of the Holy One could not be destroyed, so when it was damaged or too old to be used, it was put in a document depository called a Genizah.  The documents within the caves of Qumran were also suggested as being a Genizah depository for the Essenes or Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem. 

The reason being that Qumran was suggested as being a Genizah is that every book in the Torah, Writings and the Prophets, plus countless other intertestament writings and commentaries were represented in the Qumran library except the Book of Esther, the only book written by or about the Jews that does not give the name of G-d.

Within the scrolls found in the Ben Ezra Synagogue’s Genizah in Cairo, Egypt was found a copy of the missing Tosefta, listed under the section of Keilim (‘Vessels’) and noted to be the same source writings that Rabbi Hertz was citing in his 1648 Mishnayots.  The only difference, these source writings were believed to be from the 8th and 9th century, 800 years earlier.

Rabbi Naftali (Ben Elchanan) Hertz, called these records Mishnayots and were included in the introduction of his text.  The Mishnah as the rabbinic written documentation of the oral traditions passed down by the Levites from the time of Moses is the first section of the Talmud, which also includes ‘the summary’, called the Gemara.

Let us now read these Mishnayots, now accepted as ‘the records of Jeremy’ the prophet; called the Emeq Ha Melekh

English translation by the Vendyl Jones Research Institute

 [Literally: Valley of the King]
By Rabbi Naftali Ben Ya'acov Elchanon
Jewish Year 5408 (1648 C.E.)

“These Mishnayot ["Records"] were written by five righteous men. They are:

  1. Shimur the Levite,
  2. Hizkiyah,
  3. Zidkiyah the Prophet,
  4. Chaggai the Prophet and Zechariah, son of Ido the Prophet. 

They concealed the vessels of the Temple and the wealth of the treasures that were in Jerusalem which will not be discovered until the day of the coming of Moschiach, son of David, speedily in our times, Amen, and so it will be.”

Let us quickly compose ourselves quickly with the implication of the introduction to these Mishnahs.  Four of the names are easily recognizable; Hezekiah (Hizkiyah), Zedekiah (Zidkiyah), Haggai (Chaggai the prophet) and Zechariah the Prophet, son of Berachiah (Mishanah 2), son of Ido. 

Other names found within these Mishnahs include: Shimur HaLevi (the Levite), Ezra the Cohen (priest) the scribe, Hilkiyah the Scribe (Mishnah 7), Beruch ben (son of) Neriah with Zidkiyah (Mishnah 9 and 10), and Hiluk, the son of Shimur HaLevi (Mishnah 12).  

 

Shimur Ha Levi’s identity is still unknown in the Hebrew Scriptures, but the name, Shimur meaning ‘watchman” attested on an ancient seal impression, appears to be closely identified with the name Shimur, great, great-grandson of Aaron, from the house of Merari. (1 Chron. 6:46)  

The Merarites were the family that was in charge of the singing in the House of the Lord by King David, after the Ark was moved to Jerusalem. (1 Chron. 6:32).  

Yet this Shimur HaLevi was soon recognized as the leader of a quintet of Jewish  Revolutionaries: Shimur the Levite, Hizkiyah, Zidkiyah, Chaggai the Prophet and Zechariah son of Ido the Prophet. 

 They were intent on fulfilling the commands of the L-rd given to Jeremiah the Prophet to hide and secrete the treasures of the Wilderness Tabernacle and a large part of the treasures of Solomon’s Temple away before the military forces of Nebuchadnezzar could take custody of them to Babylon. 

Whereas the Essenes were the custodians of the documents of Qumran in the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE near the Dead Sea, these documents, were authored or co-authored by Shimur HaLevi; 

  1. One was writing on an Ibex Skin,
  2. One on a seven-foot Copper Sheet baked in porcelain clay,
  3. One, a Silver Scroll, yet to be discovered and the;
  4. Latter writings engraved on two white marble tablets, which included the names and date of the Solomon’s temple commando, which accepted documents antedate the Essene community at the time of the Temple of Herod era in the 1st century BC to CE by five centuries.  They stand as a class of writing by themselves.

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The Ibex Skin Scroll (Temple Scroll) credited as coauthored by Shimur HaLevi

The Temple Scroll, called the Ibex Skin Scroll was found at Qumran in 1950 in Cave 11, by the same Bedouin, Mohammed Dieb, who found the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 less than 25 meters away.  

This scroll was also documented as being written by Shimur HaLevi in the Year 431 BCE. 

An extensive document, which multi-volumes have been written by the Dead Sea Scroll scholars, it was initially purchased by Yigael Yadin for the Nation of Israel at the end of the 1967 Six Day War and published in 1983.  

Professor Yadin was fascinated by the wording of the author, who wrote the script in the First Person, suggested by some authorities that it was a dictated script given by the Lord of hosts to Moses on Mount Sinai.  

In the Ibex Skin “Temple Scroll” Scroll, was recorded a detailed account of how to re-institute the Temple services and the rituals. The descriptions of these furnishings described are felt by many scholars to be a description on how to put these buried treasures to use in the service of the G-d of Jacob in a future third temple. 

Included in the Temple Scroll are accounts of the ancient Hebrew festivals which were celebrated by the Essenes, but also instructions of the animal sacrifices that were not celebrated by the Essenes. As such, this document is not accepted by some scholars as a true Essene document, but a treasured document which was a part of their extensive library. 

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The Israel Museum and the Ancient Biblical Scrolls

Did the Essenes totally reject animal sacrifices?  Yes and No!  They rejected the sacrifices of the priests in Herod’s Temple as being from a false and corrupt High Priest not of the lineage of Zadok, the High Priest of King David.   No, they may not have rejected animal sacrifices as long as the pure and authorized lineage of priests were in charge of the temple services, but the modern Order of the Nazorean Essenes who trace their spiritual heritage to the Essenes of Qumran claim that in the Panarion written by Epiphanius; 

"The Nasaraeans - they were Jews by nationality . . . They acknowledged Moses and believed that he had received laws - not this law, however, but some other. And so, they were Jews who kept all the Jewish observances, but they would not offer sacrifice or eat meat.  They considered it unlawful to eat meat or make sacrifices with it. They claim that these Books are fictions, and that none of these customs were instituted by the fathers. . . (Panarion 1:18) 

Shimur HaLevi, along with being credited as a co-author of the Copper Scroll from Qumran and author of the Ibex Skin “Temple” Scroll, a third document attributed to Shimur HaLevi that was discovered in the archeological digs of Israel are two immense Marble Tablets.  Its whereabouts were unknown so began hunt and eventual discovery of these two large Marble Slabs, originally on Mount Carmel of the Prophet Elijah fame. 

The Two Marble Tablets 

Soon the archeological hunt continued to the basement of a museum in Beirut, Lebanon, when two large Marble Tablets, found initially at Mount Carmel, were now discovered in the summer of 1952 museum renovations. (Implications of the discovery were not recognized until years later).  

The ancient Hebrew script was written in bas relief, just like the Copper Scroll, in that the letters were protruding out of the marble instead being engraved within the marble.  As Rabbi Avraham Sutton noted, the writings carved on the two Marble Tables were identical to the writing on the Emeq HaMelekh (Valley of the Kings) and the missing text of the 9th century document, Massakhet Keilim, found in the Tosephta Mishnayot III under the section of Kilim in the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, except for the opening statement,”           

“These are the words of Shimur HaLevi, the servant of HaShem. In the year 3331 of Adam”.          

 Yet this same Shimon HaLevi still seems to warrant a distinction of why he is not recorded in scripture. We have one more clue; we shall soon see in the Mishnah 5 in the Tractate Parah, it lists the number of red heifers that were sacrificed since the time of Moses.                                                                                                                      

After noting that one of the red heifers was burned by Ezra the Levite, then it records that and additional two red heifers were burned by Shimon Ha Tzaddik.  Shimon the Levite had now become Shimon the Righteous One or Zaddik. 

Zedekiah (Zidkiyah) is a name meaning ‘Yahweh is righteousness’.  This sounds familiar, as we identify it with the name of the last king of Judah, King Zedekiah, who reigned from 597-586 BCE.  

His original name was Mattaniah, but was changed to Zedekiah by King Nebuchadnezzar, when he appointed him king instead of his nephew, Jehoiachin (2 Ki 24:17; 1 Chr 3:15). 

He was a morally weak and vacillating king, who at times appeared to side with the prophet Jeremiah, who was his grand-father, who also was pro-Babylonian.  

He even went to visit Babylon in the 4th regnal year, in what some historians suggest was for the great festival of Nebuchadnezzar in which he erected his golden statue in the Plain of Dur as recorded in Daniel 3; the era of Daniel and the three worthies; Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who were thrown in the fiery furnace during that event.  

King Zedekiah later upon returning to Jerusalem succumbed to the pressure of the anti-Babylonians and the pro-Egyptians and rebelled against Babylon.  

This resulted in the 3rd capture in 20 years and final destruction of Jerusalem after a long and appalling siege between 10th day of the 10th month in the 9th regnal year (January 15, 588 BCE) and the 9th day of the 4th month in the 11th regnal year or Nebuchadnezzar’s 19th year (July 19, 586 BCE.).  

His sons were killed in front of him and then his eyes were removed from their sockets and he was imprisoned in Babylon the rest of his life.  (2 Ki 25:1-7; Jer 39:1-7; 52:1-11) 

There was also another Zidkiyah who was a prominent leader noted in the assembly brought together by Nehemiah, the governor of Judah, who with Ezra the Cohen and scribe set out a series of religious reforms (Nehemiah 8) which culminated in the reading of the Torah and the teachings contained within it.  

Governor Nehemiah then convened a great assembly to sign a covenant of reform. This included the prominent civil leaders, the cohenim (priests) and Levites and all the people of Jerusalem. 

Zidkiyah was the first of the civil and political leaders to set his seal to Nehemiah’s covenant of reform.  As such he was designated as the 1st representative of the people after the governor, Nehemiah.  (Neh 10:1) Was this the Zidkiyah of the Emeq HaMelekh? 

Chaggai (Haggai the Prophet), “One born on a Feast Day.” 

Haggai (Chaggai) the prophet, meaning ‘one born on a feast day’, became one of the most potent prophetic voices to the newly return exiles from Babylon to Judea.  In his five messages recorded in the Book of Haggai, he encouraged the people that they were in active cooperation with the Lord of hosts and that their faithful service would be richly rewarded by their G-d.  

With the resounding response to his first message on August 29, 520 BCE, the clarion call went out to rebuild the House of the Lord which lay in ruins (Haggai 1: 1-12) 

It appears that he was a senior citizen in Judea, a revered grandfather of the returned exiled Jews.  

What they may not have known, Haggai was one of the guardians of the treasures in the Old Temple of Solomon (Haggai 2:3) when he challenged his contemporaries, “Is there anyone among you who saw this house in its former glory?  You can almost hear him say the obvious, “I did”.  

As we shall soon see, he was one of the guardians of the Temple Treasures, a memory that was sealed within his memory to his death.  While the people mourned that the new temple did not have the glory of Solomon’s (Sholomo’s) temple, the whereabouts of the treasures that could have increased the glory of this Temple was known, but the Lord of hosts would not allow it to be revealed until a future and more glorious temple in the future of history of the Jews.  Why did he not reveal were the hiding places for these hidden treasures to the leadership of Judea so they would eventually be restored into the house of the Lord in Jerusalem? 

Zechariah, son of Iddo, “Jehovah remembers at the Appointed Time” 

Zechariah, the Prophet, the son of Iddo’s life has been accounted for in the Oracles of Zechariah, a commentary on the Book of Zechariah.  What we now know as the “rest  of the story”, Zechariah was not only a contemporary of the prophet Haggai, the renown civil leader Zidkiyah, Hezekiah, and Shimur, the Levite, a possible member of the temple chorus were all accomplices in the secret and delicate espionage of hiding the treasures of the Temple of Solomon not only in the land of Judea but also in the city of Babylon and also near the city of Baghdad.  

Wait a minute, the capital of Iraq of Saddam Hussein was the purported site of the repository of hidden treasures from the era of Solomon’s temple?  Yes, this is the implication of this document that has been preserved in the archives of the Jews for centuries.  

Not only that, it was the intent of the five Guardians that the wealth of these treasures would remain concealed until ‘the day of the coming of Maschiach, son of David.  It was their hope that the coming of the Maschiach ben David would have been ‘speedily in our times’, but as we now know, they carried their secret to their grave except for the legacy recorded on these Mishnayots, there was another record.  

This team working in concert with each other, they inscribed the inventory of these ‘holy vessels and the vessels of the Temple that were in Jerusalem’ on a “Luach Nehoshet” or a Copper plate or sheet, hoping it would be preserved until the end of times and prior to the coming of the Messiah (Maschiach).              

Shimur HaLevi engraved in bas relief on two immense marble tablets the same mishnayots for the sake of preservation of the record.                         

The Prophet Jeremiah and the Five Guardians of Solomon’s Temple Treasures; The Emeq HaMelekh – The Story of the Five Hebrew Priests who Hid the Treasures of Solomon’s Temple 

Your Might be Interested in Reading the following Destination Yisrael Articles

Go to Part One – “The Emeq Ha Melekh (Valley of the Kings) - The Hebrew Account of Hiding the Ark, the Sanctuary and the Treasures of Solomon’s Temple” 

Destination Yisrael – “Slowly the Almighty One of Israel is opening the gates of the Supernal Realm surrounding the Throne of G-d. He is revealing to us a mini-vision of our future as we become one with Him in the future Millennium of the Great Shabbat.  

The struggles we will have within this era, will be to give up of ourselves, allow humility to become a part of our lives, for within each us is the sublime message that if we are willing to submit ourselves to His will, the power of the Divine will help us to jump the hurtles into our future. 

Then we realize that the Eternal One now reveals to us that the future of our Eternity was given to Metatron, He was the first of creation, the most Exalted Being of the heavenly realms. He was the Vizier to the Holy One of Israel as Vizier like Joseph was to the Pharaoh of old. 

Here is a majestic being who is in charge of running the Universes of the Divine.  And he was the same being that led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the mount called Sinai this time as a Pillar of Fire at night and a Cloud to shade the daytime.                 

Metatron was the “Guide” to Moshe in the Wilderness. It was here where he helped to lead and guide the Great Redeemer of the Children of Israel. Metatron became the Neshama Soul of Moshe in heaven that was connected with the “Indwelling Soul” or the Neshama Soul of Moshe on Planet Earth.

As such Moshe, as we also may, kept in constant touch with the Divine One for man, created in the Image of G-d, has always had direct line access with the G-d of Israel. 

If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with your cousins the Jews and the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future. 

This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

For inquiries about the Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel,  

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Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth.  The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel.

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09/04/2017

Hurricane Harvey arrives at Houston with Warnings from the G-d of Israel that Sudden Destruction will come upon Planet Earth

 Part One – Hurricane Harvey is awakening the Children of Israel that during Global Catastrophes, Metatron, the Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah) will be revealed to all of Planet Earth

Eye of Hurricane Harvey

The Eye of Hurricane Harvey as it made Land Fall near Houston, Texas in August, 2017 as a Category 4 Hurricane

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season erupted in full fury in August of 2017 when the “Eye of the Storm” of Hurricane Harvey arrived along the Texas coastline south of Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States.

This mammoth cyclone was the first of the major hurricanes to make landfall in the contiguous United States since 2005, when Hurricane Wilma took the record as the most intense hurricane in the Atlantic Basin history with a maximum wind of 185 mph catastrophic wind. 

Cyclone frequency Sept.

The 100-Year Frequency of North Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones that Peak in September of each Year

Major hurricanes with wind speed over 130 mph are not a new phenomenon for the records of Texas, hurricane records for the United States have been around for 166 years since 1852 on the Atlantic Ocean and since 1949 on the Pacific Ocean.

Tracks of all Hurricane

Tracks of all Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean since 1851 and the Cyclones in the Pacific Ocean since 1949 for 166 Years

Hurricane Harvey also claimed the national record as the highest rain deluge for any Atlantic tropical cyclone in the United States. This came with the fifth highest rainfall total for a tropical cyclone; 51.88 in (1,318 mm) as recorded at Cedar Bayou to the east of Houston.

Hurricane Harvey, though the eighth named storm for 2017, and the third hurricane; it developed quickly as the first major storm beginning to the east of the Lesser Antilles and became a tropical storm on August 17, 2017. 

There it degenerated into a tropical wave moving west-northwest across the Caribbean and the Yucatan Peninsula redeveloping in the Bay of Campeche on August 23.

Rescue Victims Harvey

Iconic Picture of Caring for People no Matter of Race

Houston Police SWAT officer carrying Vietnamese Mother and Child after rescuing them from their flooded home from the floodwaters of Hurricane Harvey on Sunday, August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas. – Credit/David J. Phillip/AP Photo

 Harvey then began to rapidly intensify on August 24, regaining tropical storm status and becoming a hurricane later that day. While the storm moved generally northwest, Harvey's intensification phase stalled slightly overnight from August 24–25; however, Harvey soon resumed strengthening and quickly became a major hurricane and attained Category 4 intensity late that day. Hours later, Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas, at peak intensity. 

Rockport Devastation

Harvey Storm Damage at the Gulf-side town of Rockport to the south of Houston 

It was at the sea-port town along the Texas gulf coastline called Rockport that took the greatest brunt of the powerful gale winds up to 130 mph. They sustained significant damage to that coastal town that lives off the sea and surrounded with hundreds of boats for the recreational boating and fishing in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Harvey Rockport Hurrica

Rockport fisherman examining the Damage to the Fishing Industry on the Gulf Coast 

Curving Pathways of Hur

The Normal Curving Pathways of Hurricanes Charley, Sandy and Rita 

Harvey entered the Caribbean as a Tropical Storm, dropped to a Tropical Depression, then returned to build wind speed into a Category 4 hurricane prior to landfall. Why did it weaken and then return to be a Category 4 hurricane? The cone of a hurricane is normally an even curve as noted in the graphics above.

Harvey caused at least 51 confirmed deaths; 1 in Guyana, and 50 in the United States. Catastrophic inland flooding continued to the north in the Greater Houston metropolitan area as bayous created to channel the water away from the city, instead inundated and flooded vast residential areas. FEMA director Brock Long called Harvey the worst disaster in Texas history, and expected the recovery to take many years.

Preliminary estimates of economic losses range from $10 billion to $160 billion, with a large portion of the losses sustained by uninsured homeowners. 

Yet the pathway of Hurricane Harvey was a one weaving back and forth like a snake, then reversing directions, pulling away from the coastline before returning to slam Houston. Houston was not originally in Harvey’s path, thus the Mayor’s wrong call on evacuations.

Path of Hurricane Harve
The Unusual Tortuous Pathway of Hurricane Harvey affected by the “Wobble of Planet Earth caused by the nearing Dark Binary Twin Star Nibiru pelting Earth with its powerful electromagnetic field force from outer space.

The factors that affect the force of a hurricane are usually consistent, not wavering, which shows the effect of the Earth’s wobble on both water and air masses as the Dwarf Twin Star Nibiru causes Planet Earth to wobble back and forth as Nibiru was now directing the pathway of the 2017 Hurricane called Harvey. 

The Hurricane that affected the Houston Area worse than Hurricane Harvey 

Yet, Hurricane Harvey was not the worst hurricane in Texas history. To the south of Houston at Galveston in the year of 1900, between August 27 – September 15, 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane hit seaport and beaches of Galveston with a fury no one in our modern age has ever experienced. 

The Hurricane of 1900, also known as the Great Galveston Hurricane, made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas. It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. 

Yet, there is something unusual about the State of Texas. They are a people that are highly loyal to their families and to their state. They have an outstanding sense of duty and honor to their fellow men. They will walk that extra mile to help-out a person. The State of Texas is the Bible Belt of the United States and whose native citizens are predominately descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. 

Hurricane Harvey in Gal

Native Texan holds Front Line against Hurricane Harvey, Galveston, Texas (August 2017) 

They will also stand up for the rights of all mankind; and always with a sense of kindness, courage and faithfulness and loyalty to those who honor the principles of the bible as they also guide their lives by the Torah given to the Children of Israel at the mount called Sinai; a constitution for the “Nation of Israel” whose Torah roots were later imbedded into the Constitution of the United States as documented in the Destination Yisrael article titled: “The Jewish Torah Roots of the American Constitution by Prof. Paul Eidelberg." 

1900 Galveston Hurrican
The Pathway of the Category 4, “1900 Great Galveston Hurricane” with Wind Speed of 145 mph and an estimated 12,000 deaths

As being just Texans, they also who earned their honor of statehood by winning the war against the General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto.

The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army that engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.

Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, was captured the following day and held as a prisoner of war. Three weeks later, he signed the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave the region, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country.

These treaties did not specifically recognize Texas as a sovereign nation, but stipulated that Santa Anna was to lobby for such recognition in Mexico City. Sam Houston became a national celebrity, and the Texans' rallying cries from events of the war, "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!," became etched into Texan history and legend.

SanJacinto Monument
 
The San Jacinto Monument at the site of the Texian War against President Santa Anna which they won in 1836. As an independent nation, Texas, entered the union of the United States of America as the State of Texas in 1844

The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists in the Mexican northeast province of Texas against the central government aimed at restoring the rights of the colonists.

The rebellion was part of a larger rebellion of Mexican provinces (including the Republic of the Rio Grande and the Republic of Yucatán against the authoritarian regime of Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna.

While the other rebellions were ultimately unsuccessful, the Texas Revolution resulted in the establishment of Texas as an independent nation, and eventually Texas' being annexed by the United States.

The revolution began in October 1835, after a decade of political and cultural clashes between the Mexican government and the increasingly large population of American settlers in Texas who were immigrants from other states or regions of the United States that were not colonized at that time.

In the meantime, the Republic of Mexico government had become increasingly centralized and the rights of the American colonists had become increasingly curtailed, particularly regarding immigration from the United States.

Texians (English-speaking settlers) disagreed on whether the ultimate goal was independence or a return to the Mexican Constitution of 1824. While delegates at the Consultation (provisional government) debated the war's motives, Texians and a flood of volunteers from the United States defeated the small garrisons of Mexican soldiers by mid-December 1835. The Consultation declined to declare independence and installed an interim government, whose infighting led to political paralysis and a dearth of effective governance in Texas.

An ill-conceived proposal to invade Matamoros siphoned much-needed volunteers and provisions from the fledgling Texas army. In March 1836, a second political convention declared independence and appointed leadership for the new Republic of Texas.

Determined to avenge Mexico's honor, President Antonio López de Santa Anna vowed to personally retake Texas. His Army of Operations entered Texas in mid-February 1836 and found the Texians completely unprepared.

Mexican General José de Urrea led a contingent of troops on the Goliad Campaign up the Texas coast, defeating all Texian troops in his path and executing most of those who surrendered.

Santa Anna led a larger force to San Antonio de Béxar (or Béxar), where his troops defeated the Texian garrison in the Battle of the Alamo, killing almost all of the defenders.

The Battle of the Alamo in San Antonia Texas

For the next month, a newly created Texian army under the command of Sam Houston steadily retreated towards the border with Louisiana; terrified civilians fled with the army, in a melee known as the Runaway Scrape.

Battle of San Jacinto
Battle of San Jacinto – 1895 Painting by Henry Arthur McArdle (1836–1908

On March 31, Houston paused his men at Groce's Landing on the Brazos River, and for the next two weeks, the Texians received rigorous military training. Becoming complacent and underestimating the strength of his foes, Santa Anna further subdivided his troops.

On April 21, Houston's army staged a surprise assault on Santa Anna and his vanguard force at the Battle of San Jacinto. The Mexican troops were quickly routed, and vengeful Texians executed many who tried to surrender 

Santa Anna was taken hostage; in exchange for his life, he ordered the Mexican army to retreat south of the Rio Grande. Mexico refused to recognize the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two countries continued into the 1840s. The annexation of Texas as the 28th state of the United States, in 1845, led directly to the Mexican–American War.

Texas was finally admitted to the Union in 1844 as a result of President Tyler's interpretation of the election of 1844 as a "mandate" to acquire Texas.

The "Manifest Destiny" represented the widespread American belief that God had destined the United States to expand across the whole North American continent.

Let us take a pause.  El-Shaddai, the Almighty G-d of Israel is guiding and controlling the affairs of the nations all around the Globe. It was the One G-d of Israel through Metatron the Angel before the Presence of G-d. who first guided the Children of Israel through the Red Sea from Egypt to Arabia.

It was also El-Shaddai, the Almighty G-d of Israel who guided the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Land of Media) back over the Caspian and the Black Sea to the “lands of their dwelling” where over the last 1600 years they have lived in Northern Europe, the Isles of the West and Scandinavia.

Now the G-d is allowing us to see, believe and perceive that He along in charge of the Universe even as it is being done in its infancy as a mega-planet or “dwarf star” to complete G-d judgment upon all mankind.

Nibiru is the Agent of the Almighty One of Israel and if we are awake, he will be HaShem’s emissary for the final judgment upon all mankind, not just Houston, but all nations on Planet Earth.

The Gulf deals with both the Polar Push forcing water and air away from Texas, and then the bounce back or the swing to the right and left relieving or increasing pressure. It was Zeta Talk who warned as early as 2006 that there would be coastlines that would become virtually uninhabitable, due to the Earth wobble induced assaults. After hurricane Katrina and now Harvey, it is becoming obvious that the Gulf states are among those locations.

But hurricane power of Harvey was not complete as it showed the world that Nibiru was nearby. Texas was breaking records, the highest rainfall ever. Overtopping the levees and threatening to break the reservoir dams upstream from Houston, the 4th largest city in the US was braced for even more flooding.

The Great Hurricane of Galveston of 1900

Hurricane of Galveston

Galveston, Texas after the September 8, 1900, Hurricane. Texas State Library photo 

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is one of the deadliest natural disasters ever to strike the United States. The second-deadliest storm to strike the United States, the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, caused more than 2,500 deaths, and the deadliest storm of recent times, Hurricane Katrina, claimed the lives of approximately 1,800 people. 

The Great Hurricane of Galveston caused great loss of life with a death toll of between 6,000 and 12,000 people; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of all Atlantic hurricanes, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998's Hurricane Mitch. 

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 occurred before the practice of assigning official code names to tropical storms was instituted, and thus it is commonly referred to under a variety of descriptive names. 

Typical names for the storm include the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane, and, especially in older documents, the Galveston Flood. It is often referred to by Galveston locals as the Great Storm or the 1900 Storm. 

The most deadliest natural disaster to hit the United States was the 1900 Galveston hurricane, which peaked also as a Category 4 intensity that corresponds to a modern-day Category 4 storm. 

Other examples of storms that peaked at Category 4 intensity, and made landfall at that intensity include: Hazel (1954), Flora (1963), Betsy (1965), Frederic (1979), Joan (1988), Iniki (1992), Luis (1995), Iris (2001), Charley (2004), Dennis (2005), Gustav (2008), Ike (2008), Joaquin (2015) and Harvey (2017).

The ongoing event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin highlights the fact that the Hurricane/Cyclone season officially began on June 1 and will end on November 30.

 

Hurricane Structure in the Northern Hemisphere 

During this time-period, most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin begin and are adopted by convention. 

Convection of the waters in the Atlantic Ocean, are caused by the circular motion of air and water that occur when warmer waters in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico with faster moving molecules rise from the seas as it becomes less dense while the cooler air from above sink under the influence of gravity producing a continuous circulation of water and heat. 

However, as shown by Tropical Storm Arlene in April of 2017, the formation of tropical cyclones is possible at any time of the year.

Convection Hurricanes

The Pathway of Hurricane Harvey after Devastating Houston Region with 130 mph Hurricane force winds and over 50 inches of rain in many areas; more than Houston’s yearly rain fall.

Harvey’s track history map along with the symbols corresponding to Harvey's status at the time shows that Hurricane Harvey for good portion of the time was not a topical depression from s time when Harvey was heading to Texas from August 21-22, 2017.  (Weather Underground)

The Blessings of Human Rescuers aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Cajun Navy Harvey

The Cajun Navy from Louisiana leave in mass heading to Houston to help rescue Flood victims from Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas

To the east of Houston, the Cajun country of Louisiana who suffered greatly with Hurricane Katrina, responded swiftly on their own. To their Texan brothers, they notified quickly, “We’re coming over to help you.”

Hospitality is what Abram did when he saw three men standing outside of his tent. He treated them with utmost kindness as typical in the ancient Middle East.  Is it not conceivable that HaShem is reprograming our lives, as His “chosen people”; the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel to learn or to continue living a life of hospitality to our fellow men?

Cajun Navy Harvey (2)
 
The Cajun Navy preparing in mass to comb the streets, byways, rivers, bayous, and destroyed homes to help with the rescue operation of the Texas National Guard, and other compassionate human brother and sister. 

As Tropical Storm Harvey continued to rage on, causing unprecedented flooding in Houston and surrounding areas, it makes sense that forecasters and the public have started trying to compare the floods to previous extreme weather events. Namely, the extreme flooding calls to mind another storm that devastated New Orleans in 2005: Hurricane Katrina.

Harvey evacuees

Hurricane Harvey evacuees immediately filled the George R. Brown Convention Center in the aftermath of the Category Four storm. Photo by Stephanie Fluke. 

As reported in PenPoint News: “As Tropical Storm Harvey continues to rage on, causing unprecedented flooding in Houston and surrounding areas, it makes sense that forecasters and the public have started trying to compare the floods to previous extreme weather events. Namely, the extreme flooding calls to mind another storm that devastated New Orleans in 2005: Hurricane Katrina.  

Katrina is a cultural touchstone that calls to mind government incompetence and the heroism of people trapped in an impossible, deadly situation…So, how exactly, does Harvey compare?  

While the scope and scale of the flooding disaster is similar when you compare Harvey and Katrina within Houston city limits, the reasons behind the flooding are very different. The catastrophic flooding associated with Harvey is caused by extreme rainfall slowly filling up Houston and nearby parts of southeastern Texas with trillions of gallons of rain. 

So far, about 15 trillion gallons of water have fallen from Harvey, with about 6 trillion more expected before the storm is finished. Thousands of people have already been displaced by the storm, and it hasn't yet ended.  

Katrina's devastating floods, on the other hand, were caused by storm surge as the hurricane of the century then, came up the coast, pushing water into New Orleans. That storm surge caused aging levees to break, allowing water usually held at bay to pour into the city all at once. The Lower Ninth Ward, for example, was immediately flooded when the nearby flood wall failed, making that flooding all the deadlier. 

The rapid flooding trapped people who didn't have the means or were unwilling to evacuate prior to the storm, sometimes for days before rescuers could make their way to help. There is no analog, really. From a meteorological standpoint, Hurricane Harvey and its associated deluge stands alone in history when it comes to rainfall totals, as well as the scale and scope of the Houston flood disaster. 

This is why the National Weather Service has been putting out such dire statements, bluntly indicating that this is a storm and a flood outside the experience of any Houston-area resident. No storm of its intensity has ever hit land and stayed nearly stationary for a week, while maintaining sufficient intensity to bring severe impacts to a region.  

Yes, Hurricane Katrina produced similar scenes and widespread devastation. And yes, Harvey has earned comparisons to that storm. But the two are fundamentally different.”

Harvey evacuees

People asleep on the floor at the George R. Brown Convention Center that was been set up as a shelter for evacuees escaping the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.

The Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Harvey House Flooding

Estimates of over 48,700 homes were flooded by the Rising Water of Hurricane Harvey as the Flood Waters of the Trinity and the San Jacinto Rivers cascaded down to Houston 

Throughout Texas, more than 300,000 people were left without electricity and billions of dollars of property damage was sustained. 

 There were at least 49 people that were killed in the storm even though that number is expected to rise. By Tuesday, August 29, approximately 13,000 people had been rescued across the state while an estimated 30,000 were displaced. 

The refinery industry capacity was reduced, and oil and gas production was affected in the Gulf of Mexico and inland Texas. On Monday, various news outlets announced the closure of oil refineries ahead of Hurricane Harvey, creating an artificial fuel shortage; a “run to the pump” ensued. 

Panicked, motorists waited in long lines. Consequently, gas stations through the state were forced to close due to the rush. More than 48,700 homes were affected by Harvey throughout the state, including over 1,000 that were completely destroyed and more than 17,000 that sustained major damage; approximately 32,000 sustained minor damage. Nearly 700 businesses were damaged as well. Texas Department of Public Safety stated more than 185,000 homes were damaged and 9,000 destroyed.

Harvey collapsed freewa

The Flood waters from Lake Conroe Dam to the North of Houston forced the Rivers and Creeks to the south to overflow and drain throughout downtown Houston. The freeways inundated with millions of gallons of water began to collapse as the surrounding bayous were also overflowing their own banks. 

Harvey entered the Caribbean as a Tropical Storm, dropped to a Tropical Depression, then returned to build wind speed into a Category 4 hurricane prior to landfall. Why did it weaken and then return to be a Category 4 hurricane? 

The cone of a hurricane is normally an even curve. But Harvey weaved back and forth like a snake, then reversed direction, pulling away from the coastline before returning to slam Houston. Houston was not originally in its path, thus the Mayor’s wrong call on evacuations.

But Harvey was not completed in his devastation showing the world that the Twin Star Nibiru was nearby. Texas was breaking records, the highest rainfall ever. Overtopping the levees and threatening to break the reservoir dams upstream from Houston. The 4th largest city in the US was braced for even more flooding. due to the Earth’s wobble induced by the assaults whenever the passage of Nibiru goes by. After Hurricane Katrina and now Harvey, it is becoming obvious that the Gulf states are among those locations where catastrophes will continue to arrive.

But Harvey was not done showing the world that Nibiru was nearby. Texas was breaking records, the highest rainfall ever. Overtopping the levees and threatening to break the reservoir dams upstream from Houston, the 4th largest city in the US was braced for even more flooding.

But Harvey was not done showing the world that Nibiru was nearby. Texas was breaking records, the highest rainfall ever. Overtopping the levees and threatening to break the reservoir dams upstream from Houston, the 4th largest city in the US was braced for
even more flooding.

Houston Harvey flood

The Flooding in the Metropolitan Center of Houston caused by the Mega-Hurricane Harvey

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You might want to Read Destination Yisrael Archive Series on the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel as the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Arians and Vandals plus the Huegenots. 

The Effect of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel 

The First Thanksgiving: Squanto saves the Lives of the Israelite Pioneering Puritan Pilgrims 

You might want to Read Destination Yisrael Archive Series on Before and After the 2005 Gaza Disengagement  

Go to: “The Expulsion of the Jews from Gaza by the Government of Israel”, Part One

Go to: “The Expulsion of the Jews from Gaza by the Government of Israel”, Part Two 

Go to: “The Land and the Nation of Israel”, Part One

Go to: “The Land and the Nation of Israel”, Part Two  

You might want to Read the recent Destination Yisrael Series, titled, “Shiloh, as King Messiah (Melekh HaMashiach)  

Part One – “Shiloh, the Neshama of the Neshama Soul of Moshe the Redeemer” 

Part Two – “MemTet, the Angel of Divine Presence, as the Messiah and the Five Souls of Man” 

Part Three – “Metatron, the Angel of the Divine Presence is Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah)” 

Part Four – “The 2015 Houston Shavuot Flood, the Prophecy of Meidad at Sinai: Flooding the Land of the Gogs of Magog” 

Part Five – “Tisha B’Av (9th of Av) and Gush Katif Disengagement: Preparing for the Final Judgment when Metatron arrives as King Messiah (Melekh HaMaschiach)” 

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You might want to Read the Following:  

“The Asian Indonesian Tsunami and the Globalist’s bid to Control the Nations of the Earth” – BibleSearchers Reflections – February, 2005 

“Super-Secret Weapons creating Collapsing Environment and a Global Famine” – BibleSearchers Reflections – July, 2008 

“Earthquakes swarm under Volcano Krýsuvík as Iceland’s Second Largest Volcano is set to Explode dwarfing Europe’s 2010 Air Catastrophe” – March, 2011

“The Devastation of Planet Earth by ‘HAARP and Scalar Earthquake War’ Weapons” -October 2011 

“Why G-d chose to Judge the Nation of Japan: The 9.1 Mw Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami” – April, 2011 

“The Ring of Fire explodes with 8.9 Mw Quake in Japan and warns the Americas - You are Destined for a MegaQuake Soon!” – March, 2011 

“Socially Engineered” US Military Downgraded From “Effective Fighting Force” By Russia - Putin’s “Weather Weapon” Endgame Begins: America Warned Will Be “Brought to Its Knees” – Sorcha Faal - August 28, 2017 

Russia Orders All Warships To Sea As “Battle for The Monastery” Warned Will Decide Fate Of World” – Sorcha Faal - August 31, 2017 

“US Invasion Of Russia Prompts Earthquake Retaliation In Idaho, Yellowstone Supervolcano Warned Is Next” – September 3, 2017 

Over the past few years, BibleSearchers Reflections and her allied blog site, Destination Yisra’el has reported on several of these exotic Earthquakes, Cyclones using Secret Weapons of Weather Modification: 

“Iranian Earthquake” – December 26, 2003 

“The Great Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami” – December 26, 2004 

“Chili’s Chaiten Volcano Explosion and 8.0 Magnitude Earthquake” – May 2, 2008 “Myanmar’s (Burma) Cyclone Nargis” – May 5-7, 2008 

“The 8.0 Mw China’s Sichuan Province Earthquake” – May 12, 2008 

“America’s Mississippi Floods caused by China’s Lop Nor Ionospheric Radar” – June 12, 2008 

“CERN creates a Black Hole” – August, 2008 

“The 7.8 Mw Haiti’s Port-au-Prince Earthquake caused by America’s Electromagnetic” – January 4, 2010

“Scalar Earthquake Weapon” - January 13, 2010 

“Ring of Fire explodes as the Americas join Japan as the next Earthquake predicted to Erupt” – March, 2011 

“The Ring of Fire explodes with 8.9 Mw Quake in Japan and warns the Americas” –

“You are Destined for a MegaQuake Soon!” – March, 2011 

“Fears Increase over Prophetic potential for Volcanic Eruption in Canterbury New Zealand after Disastrous 2nd Earthquake” – March 9, 2011 

“Why G-d chose to Judge the Nation of Japan – The 9.1 MW Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami” - April 3, 2011 

“Is this the ‘Big One’, California San Andreas Fault Earthquake Warning issued for the American-Mexican Pacific Coast line” – January, 2012 

“Massive Earthquake Strikes Kathmandu Nepal, Epicenter of Buddhism, an Apostate religion created by the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel – May 2, 2015  

Destination Yisrael – “Slowly the Almighty One of Israel is opening the gates of the Supernal Realm surrounding the Throne of G-d. He is revealing to us a mini-vision of our future as we become one with Him in the future Millennium of the Great Shabbat.  

The struggles we will have within this era, will be to give up of ourselves, allow humility to become a part of our lives, for within each us is the sublime message that if we are willing to submit ourselves to His will, the power of the Divine will help us to jump the hurtles into our future.  

Then we realize that the Eternal One now reveals to us that the future of our Eternity was given to Metatron, He was the first of creation, the most Exalted Being of the heavenly realms. He was the Vizier to the Holy One of Israel as Vizier like Joseph was to the Pharaoh of old.  

Here is a majestic being who is in charge of running the Universes of the Divine.  And he was the same being that led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the mount called Sinai this time as a Pillar of Fire at night and a Cloud to shade the daytime.                                              

Metatron was the “Guide” to Moshe in the Wilderness. It was here where he helped to lead and guide the Great Redeemer of the Children of Israel. Metatron became the Neshama Soul of Moshe in heaven that was connected with the “Indwelling Soul” or the Neshama Soul of Moshe on Planet Earth.  

As such Moshe, as we also may, kept in constant touch with the Divine One for man, created in the Image of G-d, has always had direct line access with the G-d of Israel.  

If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with your cousins the Jews and the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future.  

This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelandsfirst in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.  

For inquiries about the Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel,  

Visit their Web Site 

“Kol Ha Tor”,  

They also offer – “a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to their chosen destiny. For details refer to Shomron Lives!”, 

DISCLAIMER - Kol Ha Tor is an independent commentator and may or may not agree with the contents, the views, interpretations and opinions as expressed by the independent theological and/or political views of Destination Yisrael

DESTINATION YISRAEL scans the world for information that has relevance on the time of the end.  It is our prayer that this will allow the believers in the Almighty One of Israel to “watch and be ready”.  Our readiness has nothing to do trying to halt the progression of evil on our planet earth.  In our readiness, we seek to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah of Israel so that goodness and evil will be manifested in its fullest. 

Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth.  The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel.

In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information.  We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah, the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament, and the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo ben Zalman (famed Vilna Gaon) called the “genius” in the 18th century, and his vision of the final redemption in his collection of writings highlighted in his supernal understanding of the Torah, the Prophets and Writings as outlined in the Kol Ha Tor. 

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08/18/2017

Gog from the Land of Magog is the Incarnation of Assyrian King Sennacherib

Our Solar System is the Center of the Universal Controversy between and Satan and G-d

The Solar Path of the Twin Binary Sun known as Planet X, Nibiru, or Nemesis makes its last Voyage before Metatron as King Messiah comes to Rein 

  Nibiru's final Bypass Planet Earth

The Final Battle on Planet Earth, the GogUMagog War will Open the Gates of Heaven revealing the Battle between the Dark Forces of Satan and the Light Forces of G-d

As King Sennacherib rode in towards the Southern Kingdom of Judah from the “north”, he went with the sole purpose to take military control of the land to the south in the kingdom of the Jews.  So also at the “end times” the incarnation of King Sennacherib will also descend upon Israel from the north. This military leader is called “Gog, from the Land of Magog” 

Gog will now set his sights not towards the turmoil of the Middle East to the East but, this time will come as an unwilling international leader, impelled by the G-d of Israel `who will descend upon the Land of Israel. 

As stated by the prophets, the Almighty One of Israel will “put a hook into Gog’s jaws and as an unwilling leader will be forced to take his overwhelming military might and head from the regions to the north of Israel as stated below.”

In the GogUMagog attack against the Nation of Israel, it will come just prior to the rest-oration of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel to the Land of Israel at the “end of days” (Ezekiel 39:21-29), by the Lord of hosts who sent this oracle:

Ezekiel 38:1-9 parts - “Now the word of the L-rd came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, ….and prophesy against him and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince….

I will turn you around, put hook into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers, and shields, all of them handling swords… "

Gog U Magog revisited at the “Galilee Mountains of Israel”

Gog U Magog revisited at the “Galilee Mountains of Israel” - Photo by Noam

In the latter years, you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword (Nazi Holocaust) and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel (Shomron and Judea), which had long been desolate (the Nation of Israel was formed  in 1948); they were brought out of the nations (prophecy fulfilled), and now all of them dwell safely [the 70-year prophecy (1948 – 2018) of being fulfilled].  

You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many people with you…”

The “end times” events as spelled out so vividly by the prophets of old, are not to appease or settle our minds but to wake all of us up to a divine reality. If we are to become participants in the transition zone of the “end times” between the 3rd and the 4th dimensional reality than we need to look at life much differently; now! 


GogUMogog North of Jerusalem
 
The Place to the Far North from Jerusalem and the Land of Israel

BibleSearchers Reflections – The prophecy of Ezekiel concerning the End of the Age Gog-Magog War has been one of the most sought out prophecies to understand for within its prophetic sphere it appears to encompass the entire span of the time of trouble, the apocalyptic catastrophes of the prophets, the return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, and the final coming of the Messiah.  We invite you to enjoy the wisdom of the sages of Israel as we broaden our conceptions of those final days in which we are a part of today. As written in the Israeli blog titled; "Dreaming of Moschiach"

Dreaming of Moschiach – “In Tractate Sanhedrin (94, a) the Talmud reveals: “G-d, blessed be He, wished to appoint Hezekiah (zs'l, King of Judah in 562 BCE as the Messiah, and Sennacherib (King of the Assyrian Empire) as Gog and Magog”. The Talmud goes on to explain why this plan did not materialize.

It is clear from the Talmud that Magog is not a specific nation. At the time of Redemption, whenever that may be, a given nation will take on the identity of Magog, regardless of its particular name or local name. So how do we identify Gog and Magog in our day?

The key to this secret was
revealed by the great and holy mystic, Rabbi Isaac Luria, zs'l, (Safed, Israel 1534-1572), the most eminent of all kabbalists. His word is the undisputed final word amongst all Jewish sages in every part of the world for almost 500 years. He is said to have studied with the prophet Elijah on a daily basis. He is known as “The Holy Ari of Blessed Memory.”

The Ari revealed the following: The words “GogUMagog” have the numeric value of 70 [3+6+3+6+40+3+6+3]. Seventy is the number of nations mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 10). In Jewish writings, reference is frequently made to the 70 non-Jewish nations of the world.

(The fact that there are close to 200 independent nations today is not relevant, as a group of politically independent countries may be considered one nation. For example, 21 Arab countries are only one nation). This alludes to the fact that Gog from Magog is the head of the super power which dominates the 70 nations of the world.

Known as “Ha’ARI”, meaning “The Lion, and later remembered as ARIZal (The ARI, of Blessed Memory (Zikhrono Livrakha) who was the foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman, Syria has thus clearly and unequivocally identified Magog as the super-power of the world. He has uncovered the mystery. Magog is none other than this country of ours, the United States of America, and “Gog” is its president.

The location of the
Land of Israel at the Centre of the World is based on another tradition, namely that the creation of the earth began from the Even Hashisiya, the Foundation Stone located in the holiest part of the Temple (Talmud Yoma 54b, Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 3).

This is the Stone that is presently under The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. (According to the Kabbalists the Foundation Stone is not only the center of this planet, but it is the centre of the all reality. See Sefer Yetzira 4:4.

In fact, in the very place where Ezekiel shares his vision about Gog and his armies coming from “the distant north” (Ezekiel 38:6, 39:2), he also places Israel at “the navel,” i.e., the center, of the earth (ibid. 38:12). Thus, the prophet himself gives us the “key” to locate the region he considers “the distant north.” However, the question begs to be asked. Why are we designating either the entire U.S.A., or the State of Alaska as being north of Jerusalem and not west?

GogUMogog east and North of Jerusalem
The United States North and West of Jerusalem  

Here we find another amazing phenomenon. Logic would dictate that in determining the relationship between two areas on a globe, we would set the direction based on the shortest distance. The distance between Jerusalem and northern Alaska (the furthest northern state of America) is practically identical to the distance between Jerusalem and eastern Maine (the furthest eastern state of America). They are both 5,300 miles away! Hence from a physical perspective the U.S. is both north and west of Jerusalem.

However from a metaphysical perspective,
America’s role as Magog corresponds to its northern character. (In the Kabbalah, the link between Esau/Edom and the Left/North is extensively developed. In fact, in the Bahir, one of the oldest and most important of all classical kabbalah texts (written in the first century by Rabbi Nechuniah ben HaKana), “North” is identified as the source of all evil (chapter 163 in Rabbi Kaplan’s edition). For this reason, the prophet as well, focuses on the northern connection of Magog.

We find a similar phenomenon regarding ancient Babylon. Babylon was about 500 miles east of Jerusalem, but only about 50 miles north. Clearly, we would consider Babylon east of Jerusalem, not north. Indeed, throughout the
Babylonian Talmud, the sages refer to the Land of Israel as “Ma’arava”, the “West.”

Yet when G-d informed Jeremiah about the impending destruction of Israel by the hands of Babylon, the prophet is told (Jeremiah 1:14), “Out of the north the evil shall come forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.” (See Talmud, Bava Basra 25b).

Here too we are to understand this from a metaphysical perspective. Although from a geographic perspective Babylon is essentially east of Jerusalem. From an inner spiritual perspective, it is its
northern dimension which is the primary source of its destructive power against Israel.

There is another interesting link between America and the “North”. The Kabbalists reveal that the two world religions,
Christianity and Islam, are each linked to opposite directions. Christianity is represented by the “North” or the “Left” when facing East. Islam is connected to the “South” or the Right side. (The explanation of this correlation is beyond the scope of this letter). Incidentally, that is why, the Christians celebrate Sunday which is to the “left” of the Jewish Shabbat. And the Moslems celebrate Friday, which corresponds to the “right” side.

Thus, when the Prophet Daniel reveals that “at the time of the End, the King of the South will engage the Forces of the North” (Daniel 11:40), he is prophesying that America, a predominantly Christian nation will be drawn into military confrontation with Islamic countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syra etc.)."

Source: “The Prophecy of Magog”

Credit to Dreaming of Moschiach Blogspot – “Gog from the Land of Magog” – April 29, 2008

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Destination Yisra’el’s GogUMogog Series

Go to Part One – “Preparing for the Gog Magog War!”

Go to Part Two – “BushGog and America’s Role as the New Babylon”

Go to Part Three – “ObamaGog may be the Final ‘Gog!’”

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You might Want to Read BibleSearchers Reflection’s article – “The Identification from the Jewish Sages of ‘Gog from the Land of Magog’”

You might want to read the BibleSearchers Reflection’s Series – “Gogu-Magog War completes its Seventh Year (2007-8)” –

Series of Eight Articles

You might want to read BibleSearchers Reflection’s Series – “The Globalist Red Internationale Axis – The Greater Mongolian Dynasty of Russia, China, and Persia” – Series of Four Articles

The day is coming soon when Hashem the G-d of Israel will stretch forth His great hand of judgment and cleanse the earth from the great pollution of man upon Planet Earth. He will take away the “blood oaths” from between the mouths of the Palestinian Arabs.

He will restore the Land of Israel back to “Am Yisra’el”, that means both the House of Joseph (All Ten Tribes of the House of Israel), and the House of Judah.  

He will then redeem and restore His own “sheep” back into a living relationship with Himself. If you are chosen, as a Lost Tribal Member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, your destiny is to return to your Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel, 

Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove, 

as a Reception from the House of Judah is forming to Welcome the Returning House of Israel.  

For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!” a Bed and Breakfast Guest House with Kosher Cuisine, and Tours of Biblical Shomron (Samaria) and Judea. Welcome and Visit, Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to your Future Homeland!

DISCLAIMER - Kol Ha Tor is an independent commentator and may or may not agree with the contents, the views, interpretations and opinions as expressed by the independent theological and/or political views of Destination Yisrael.  

Destination Yisrael scans the world for information that has relevance on the time of the end.  It is our prayer that this will allow the believers in the Almighty One of Israel to “watch and be ready”.  Our readiness has nothing to do trying to halt the progression of evil on our planet earth.  In our readiness, we seek to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah of Israel so that goodness and evil will be manifested in its fullest. 

Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth.  The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel.

In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information.  We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah, the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament, and the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo ben Zalman (famed Vilna Gaon) called the “genius” in the 18th century, and his vision of the final redemption in his collection of writings highlighted in his supernal understanding of the Torah, the Prophets and Writings as outlined in the Kol Ha Tor.  

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08/12/2017

Our Patriarch Abraham watched one of the Greatest Catastrophes on Planet Earth consume Sodom and Gomorrah

 Part One – Preparing for the Catastrophes at the Time of the End

Abrahamic Cataclysm that engulfed the Dea

The Three Angelic Messengers visit Abraham concerning the Destruction of the Vail of Siddim and its affect upon Great Rift Valley 

Credit to Toby Cohen’s Abraham Project

Ten generations after the Great Flood of Noah, life then in the days of Abraham was not much different than today.  The degradation of human life had become so horrible that humans were but pawns to those who preyed upon them; treating them like animals.  

The Great Rift Valley Africa

The Abrahamic Cataclysm that engulfed the Dead Sea, created the Gulf of Aquaba as it split open the Red Sea, and created the Great Rift Valley in Africa today 

So, three angels of the L-rd made a visit to give Abraham a startling message. Abraham was taken to the ridges looking down over to the verdune Vail of Siddim and there Abraham was informed that the days of Lot and his family in Sodom and Gomorrah were over. 

They would have to flee or they would be destroyed in one of the first cataclysms since the Great Flood of Noah. Yet, the destruction at Sodom and Gomorrah was not just a local catastrophe; but a transcontinental catastrophe that tore open a crevasse in the African Continent from the Land of Israel to the Congo Basin. 

Soddom and Gommorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah today in the former Vail of Siddim

It not only destroyed all the cities of the Vail, but the crustal breach in the mantle of the earth ripped apart the landscape in the Land of Israel, down across what would later be called the “Dead Sea”, and then created the Gulf of Aquaba, moved onward to the south as it opened the Red Sea, and then would reach all the way down the Indian Oceanic coastline into Southern Africa.

Triple Junction of the Afar region of Eth

The Triple Junction of the Afar region of Ethiopia with the Nubian African Plate to the west and the Ethiopian Dome and the Somalian Plate to the east. 

This mighty quake, heralded by bolides of fire, a firestorm of brimstone and earthquakes of a magnitude unheard of in the days of mankind.  Yet, watching the beginnings of this cataclysmic event were; the Patriarch Abraham and three angelic messengers sent from the Throne of G-d in heaven to the forefather of HaShem’s Chosen Peoples; the Jews of the House of Israel and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.

The Great Rift Valley
 

The Great Rift Valley in Africa

The Bolides of Fire were cast down from the north to the south of the land of Israel, the homeland of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Judah.  The power of the cascading avalanche of fiery bolides of hail and brimstone, with its mega-earthquakes rent open the Red Sea, where the Children of Israel centuries later would cross over the Red Sea during another cataclysm called “The Great Exodus”. 

So here are the statistics that are documented upon the face of the earth. 

  1. The Great Rift Valley’s present landscape first began to be modified in the days of the Patriarch Abraham.
  2. The Length of the Great Rift Valley is 6,000 miles long.
  3. The Width of the Great Rift Valley in Africa is 30 to 100 kilometers wide.
  4. The Height of the Great Rift Valley is hundreds of feet below sea level.
  5. The Total Height from Rim to Basin is 6,232 feet. 

Vail of Siddim in Northern Israel

The Vail of Siddim in Northern Israel today

The land along the Vail was so wicked that HaShem’s presence would soon rip this beautiful and luscious region open, leaving its presence behind with the destructive term; the Dead Sea, a story that would be repeated for generation after generation to their descendants. 

To the east of the Mediterranean Sea lay the verdune green valley of great geological significance.  At the top of the above picture is where the Patriarch Abraham possibly stood with the three angelic messengers. 

From there just a few miles back to the east bolides of fire and brimstone rained down upon the evil generations whose wickedness new no bounds.

'The Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley in Southern Africa 

Isaiah 24:19 – “The earth is violently broken (violent rocking back and forth in its orbital pathway that will produce catastrophic changes to the crust of the earth by Nibiru just as it was done in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah). 

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Metatron as King Messiah 

Part One – “Shiloh, the Neshama of the Neshama Soul of Moshe the Redeemer” 

Part Two – “MemTet, the Angel of Divine Presence, as the Messiah and the Five Souls of Man” 

Part Three – “Metatron, the Angel of the Divine Presence is Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah)” 

Part Four – “The 2015 Houston Shavuot Flood, the Prophecy of Meidad at Sinai: Flooding the Land of the Gogs of Magog” 

Part Five – “Tisha B’Av (9th of Av) and Gush Katif Disengagement: Preparing for the Final Judgment when Metatron arrives as King Messiah (Melekh HaMaschiach)” 

You might Want to Read the Entire Series of the Apocalypse of Nibiru 

Nibiru and the Final Apocalypse of Planet Earth 

HaShem’s Emissary brings Judgment and Redemption for the Lost Tribes of Israel

 Topics 

“Is “Planet X” God’s Divine Judgment during the Final Apocalypse of Redemption?”    

“Velikovsky and Sagan – The Quest to Understand Catastrophic Earth History” 

“The Spiritual and Scientific Quest to Find Planet X” 

“Nibiru, the Binary Twin Dwarf Star arrives to our Solar System’s Sun with Planet X” 

“The Cataclysmic Role of a Binary Dark Star for the Coming of the Messiah” 

“The Future Cataclysms on Earth through the Eyes of Jewish Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky” 

“The Portents of a Global Famine in the Years of 2009-2011” 

“Mayan “End of the Fifth World Age’s” Conjunction with the Biblical Apocalypse” 

“The Hebrew Watchers and Giants as the Sumerian Annunaki and the Nephilim”  

The day is coming soon when Hashem the G-d of Israel will stretch forth His great hand of judgment and cleanse the earth from the great pollution of man upon Planet Earth. He will take away the “blood oaths” from between the mouths of the Palestinian Arabs.

He will restore the Land of Israel back to “Am Yisra’el”, that means both the House of Joseph (All Ten Tribes of the House of Israel), and the House of Judah. 

He will then redeem and restore His own “sheep” back into a living relationship with Himself. If you are chosen, as a Lost Tribal Member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, your destiny is to return to your Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel, 

Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove, 

as a Reception from the House of Judah is forming to Welcome the Returning House of Israel. 

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Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth. 

The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel. 

In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information.  We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah, the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament, and the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo ben Zalman (famed Vilna Gaon) called the “genius” in the 18th century, and his vision of the final redemption in his collection of writings highlighted in his supernal understanding of the Torah, the Prophets and Writings as outlined in the Kol Ha Tor.  

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08/04/2017

The Prophet Isaiah was Correct: The Earth at the End of Days will “Stagger like a Drunkard”

Nibiru and Bolide Catastrophes
I
saiah the Prophet of Catastrophes

Planet X, and the Catastrophic Apocalypse as the Sun’s Twin Star makes a “Pass-over” of Planet Earth at the End of Days

Isaiah 24:19-20 - “The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression there-of shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again.”

 In the early years of the existence of Planet Earth’s remolding and reforming, the Creator of the Universe unveiled what were later be called the “Acts of the Creative Power of G-d.” Even before the era of Adam and Eve in the garden called “Gan Eden”, the forces of nature, under the control of the Almighty G-d of Creation, the universal forces were at play with the remodeling and remolding of Planet Earth in preparation for a homeland for humans of His Divine Creation.

The forces of nature came from the celestial angelic powers that were under the guide and command control of heaven at the Throne of the Divine. Each planet we can observe in the heavens today are vortex zones or conduits where the power of the Divine streams through them to the object of His distain and judgment or the recipient of His protection and redemption.

The Middle East was the center of then-known world but the power drama was centered around the city’s post Babylonian and Persian exile fortified city of Jerusalem.  It was not until the height of the power of the Kingdom of Judah when the prince descendants of the famed rulers of Jerusalem, King David and Solomon, became a threat to the Assyrian Empire.

This was an imperial state known for its ruthless and merciless cruelty upon the inhabitants of the region. This real-life drama was being portrayed daily around the world by the ruthless power of the Assyrian King Sennacherib.

The Prophet Isaiah was Correct Earth will “Stagger like a Drunkard
 Isaiah the Prophet, Seer and Counselor of the Kingdom State of Judah

Per the historical insights of the Rabbinic literature, the Prophet Isaiah was a descendant of the royal house of Judah and Tamar. (Sotah 10b). He was the son of Amoz, the brother of King Amaziah of Judah as noted in the Talmud tractate Megillah 15ra.

As such the Prophet Isaiah was the uncle of King Hezekiah and therefore a cousin of King Uzziah; in whose reign the “sun stopped and turned backwards” in days of an earthquake that was documented by the visual testimony displayed on King Uzziah’s sundial. 

Isaiah the Prophet  Seer and Counselor of the State
 
Isaiah the Prophet, Seer and Counselor of the State  

King Hezekiah (729-686 B.C.E.) with all the citizens of Jerusalem were sitting inside the walls of Jerusalem while the huge force of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (705-681 B.C) were assembling outside on the surrounding plains.  A vast sea of warriors in full military armor were glistening in the sun, 185,000 in all, was an ominous site to behold. 

The Prophet Isaiah had an illustrious career as historian, cosmologist, and prophet, and he also had the ear of the king.  It was the Prophet Isaiah with the apt attention and blessing of King Hezekiah that a massive preparation was made to fortify the city of Jerusalem.

As Isaiah sat in the counsel of the King Hezekiah, he waited as Hezekiah was now standing before the Shekinah in the Holy of Holiest, with clothing rent, begging and beseeching the guidance of HaShem as he presented the demands of surrender by the Assyrians to the last remnant of God’s people.

2 Kings 19:19 – “O Lord G-d of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are G-d, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. Now therefore, O Lord our G-d, I pray, save us from his hand, kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord G-d, You alone.”

The Prophet Isaiah, the court counselor and seer was about 65 years old.  He had an illustrious career as an historian, cosmologist, and prophet: and he also had the ear of the king. 

It was the Prophet Isaiah with the apt attention and blessing of King Hezekiah that a massive preparation was made to fortify the city of Jerusalem. This included drilling a tunnel under the City of David so that the water supply sources would be protected and sustain the Jewish people inside the walls of Jerusalem. 

So, a tunnel was carved under Mount Zion, by the order of the King, Hezekiah and the external source of water at the Gihon  Spring was directed under the wall of the city and fortified outside against the military forces of Assyria. 

This was the last reference to the Ark of the Covenant, the Cherubim and the Shekinah in Hebrew scripture. When Isaiah received the diplomats of the king’s court with the demands of the king of Assyria, Isaiah had already done his homework. 

The Prophet Israel was also a ancient chronicler of the ancient catastrophes of old, as he studied avidly the history of G-d’s people. He knew well the history of catastrophic deliverances for the Hebrews.  He was assured that even with a remnant, the L-rd of hosts would defend His own.  So, he said; 

2 Kings 19:5-7, Isaiah 37:6 – “Thus says the L-rd: ‘Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have. Surely, I will send a "spirit" upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’”

King Hezekiah and Jerusalem endured a siege led by Assyrian king Sennacherib

Judaean King Hezekiah and Jerusalem endured a siege led by Assyrian king Sennacherib when his 185,000 warriors were destroyed by a Bolide Fire from the Heavens.

There was at one location that was Jerusalem’s most vulnerable military asset; there was one spring, the Gihon Spring, that provided a continuous flow of water for the Jewish people literally trapped inside a city and whose destiny appeared to be on the pathway of eventual national annihilation.

Hezekiah's Tunnel

The Massive Water Tunnel carved under and inside the walls of Jerusalem from the Gihon Springs higher up protecting a water supply for the population of the city of Jerusalem.

As Isaiah sat in the counsel of the King Hezekiah, he waited as Hezekiah was now standing before the Shekinah in the Holy of Holiest, with clothing rent, begging and beseeching for the guidance of HaShem as he presented the demands of surrender by the Assyrians to the last remnant of G-d’s people. 

2 Kings 19:19 – “O Lord G-d of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, you are G-d, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, Now therefore, O Lo-rd our G-d, I pray, save us from his hand, kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the L-rd G-d, You alone.” 

King Hezekiah’s Tunnel in Old City Jerusalem
King Hezekiah’s Tunnel in Old City Jerusalem 

So, a tunnel was carved under Mount Zion, by the order of the King, Hezekiah and the external source of water at the Gihon was directed under the wall of the city and fortified outside against the military forces of Assyria. 

This was the last reference to the Ark of the Covenant, the Cherubim and the Shekinah in Hebrew scripture. When Isaiah received the diplomats of the king’s court with the demands of the king of Assyria, Isaiah had already done his homework.  He was also a Searcher, as he studied avidly the history of G-d’s people. He knew well the history of catastrophic deliverances for the Hebrews.  He was assured that even with a remnant, the L-rd of hosts would defend His own.  So, he said, 

2 Kings 19:5-7, Isaiah 37:6 – “Thus says the L-rd: ‘Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have. Surely, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’” 

Electrical Bolt shoots down upon the Middle East

An Electrical Bolt shoots down upon the Middle East like a “blast” (bolide of fire) outside the walls of Jerusalem while King Sennacherib’s 185,000-man Assyrian Army were destroyed

This translation (NKJV), though technically is correct in its translation, “Surely I will send a “spirit” upon him”, may have considerably missed the literal impact of a literal historical catastrophic event. 

The most literal word for “spirit” should be a “Blast” as in the Hebrew, the word translated is ruwach or ruach (Strong’s 7307) means a wind resembling a violent exhalation, a tempest, an angry breath and by extension a region of the sky with a giant stellar blast from the heavens

Electrical Bolide or Flue or “Blast” of Immense Stellar Energy 
Electrical Bolide or Flue or “Blast” of Immense Stellar Energy 

What a difference this meaning takes!  G-d did not send his ‘Divine Spirit’ as some would consider his Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh.  As Sennacherib had ‘utterly destroyed’ the lands in this scorch earth massacre, so also the L-rd of hosts would treat him; as the king and his forces would be utterly destroyed by G-d’s ruach, or bolide “blast” from the heavens. 

The land surrounding Jerusalem was soon a metal filled vortex zone as the almost 200,000 military warriors laid on the ground and around them lay their military hardware, shields, swords, helmets, and body armor. 

The landscape outside the wall of Jerusalem was soon to become a “ground” where a powerful magnetic bolide would be “cast down” upon the field of sleeping soldiers. The hundreds of acres of served as a reception ground as a field of metal drew to the earth a million-volt flue or bolide of fire from the heavens.

  Bolides of Fire cascading over the Earth

Bolides of Fire cascading over the Earth are part of G-d’s Divine Act of Creation and Judgment: like the Bolide Blast of G-d that destroyed the 185,000 Assyrian Army outside the walls of Jerusalem 

The Nation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel first felt the long arm of human terror in 725 B.C.E. when Shalmaneser V (727-722 B.C.E.) invaded Israel and marched on to Samaria, the capital city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel located in Shomron and Judea today called the “West Bank”.  For three years, the capital city lay in siege and finally fell to its destruction in the year of 722 B.C.E. 

During the final onslaught by Sargon II, (722-705 B.C.E.) general of the army and eventual successor to Shalmaneser; the Northern Kingdom of Israel also felt the wrath of Assyria. Judah, in the 4th year of Hezekiah, also now came under the control of Assyria by sending tribute to the Assyrians. 

So, in 722 B.C.E., House of the Northern Kingdom of Israel went into exile; an exile which has never been completed and whose dry bones have not been restored to this day, per the prophecy of Ezekiel 36. (Ezekiel.36:1-14)

Hebrew speaking Rabshakeh  chief cup bearer
 The Hebrew speaking Rabshakeh, chief cup bearer and spokesman for Assyrian King Sennacherib

The Prophet Isaiah was powerful human force representing the messages and warnings from the One G-d of Israel. The symbiotic relationship between the Prophet Isaiah and King Hezekiah was a powerful human force that was in an alliance with the angelic powers of the Divine. 

What is known is that Hezekiah, between the years of 701 and 690 B.C.E., spent extensive preparations to fortify the city of Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:2-6) awaiting the final onslaught.

It was during this time the famous Hezekiah’s tunnel was carved beneath the limestone mountain called Mount Moriah. The Jewish tunnelers bore a 1777- foot tunnel from the well of Gihon in the Kidron Valley to the lower Pool of Siloam inside the walls of Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 32:4,30, 2 Kings 20:20).

As such the residences inside the walls of Jerusalem had a continuous supply of water even during a siege; even to this present day.  This was documented on an inscription found in the tunnel in 1880, now residing in the Archeological Museum at Istanbul, which states:King Hezekiah Siloam Tunnel Inscription Stone 

The King Hezekiah Siloam Tunnel Inscription Stone 

Archeological Museum at Istanbul - “The tunnel was bored. And this was the manner in which it was cut.  While (the workmen were) still (lifting up) axes, each toward his neighbor, and while three cubits remained to be cut through, (there was heard) the voice one calling the other, tunnel was bored, the stonecutters, struck, each to meet his fellow, ax against ax; and the water flowed from the spring to the pool for 1,200 cubits (1,700 feet), and the height of the rock above the heads of the stonecutters was 100 cubits.” 

King Hezekiah’s Siloam Tunnel Stone location

The location in Hezekiah’s Tunnel where King Hezekiah’s Siloam Tunnel Stone was taken from the wall of the Tunnel   

 

Contrary to modern chronology, Sennacherib did not bring his forces to the walls of Jerusalem on 701 B.C.E., but more than likely about 684 B.C.E.  On that day, the mighty forces of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria were annihilated by a mighty bolide, “Blast”, the electrical bolt or flue of millions of volts of electricity that was heard across the land.  

It incinerated the entire military force of 185,000 warriors, who were camped outside the walls of Jerusalem.  The army, lying with the ground strewn with the iron helmets, iron coats of mail, iron javelins, and iron leg armor, became a vast grounding site for a cosmic electrical bolide.  According to the prophecy of Isaiah: 

Isaiah 37:6 - “And he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” 

It appears that Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.E.), the successor to Sargon II, had made a military incursion into the kingdom of Judah, the first, around 701 B.C.E., the 14th year of Hezekiah. (1 Kings 18:13) he attacked the fortified cities of Hezekiah and carried off tribute and booty.  Hezekiah repented and offered to pay tribute.  

Though Hezekiah ruled from 729-686 B.C.C., the first fifteen years were co-regent with his father, King Ahaz (735-715 B.C.E.). So, fourteen years after he became sole rule in 715 B.C.C., Sennacherib came to Jerusalem and boasted that he made Hezekiah “prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage”.  

Per the historical documents in the royal histories of the kings of Judah, Hezekiah paid 300 talents of silver, in which he had to clean out the coffers of the Temple of G-d, and 30 talents of gold, in which he had to tear down the front doors of the temple and remove the gold overlay in which he had earlier restored when he repaired the Temple of Solomon.  

Having access now to the Royal Archives of Sennacherib in Nineveh, we find Sennacherib’s claim that he had receipts of ‘thirty talents of gold and eight hundred talents of silver,” together with a great treasure of gems, couches of ivory, valuable woods, and ‘all the king’s valuable treasures.”  (SDA Bible Commentary Vol. 2 pg. 956) 

Some scholars think that during this campaign, when he took the fenced cities, he also laid siege to Jerusalem.  Others suggest that Sennacherib returned later, laid siege to Lachish, while he sent Rabshakeh, the chief cup bearer and spokesman for the king’s envoy, who was obviously multi-lingual as he spoke Hebrew, to deliver an ultimatum to King Hezekiah.  

While this ultimatum was being delivered, it was learned that Tirhakah, king of Cush, an Ethiopian ruler of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, was in route to engage in battle with Sennacherib. (11 Kings 19:9) 

Historical documents depict that Tirhakah was born in 708 B.C.E. At the age of 7, he was unable to wield an army against Sennacherib, so Tirhakah was also co-regent, with his brother, Shabataka (700 – 684 B.C.E.), in 690 B.C.E. and reigned alone from 684 to 664 B.C.E.  What we do know is that Hezekiah died in 686 B.C.E. Seven years later King Sennacherib was assassinated (681 B.C.E)., so Sennacherib’s confrontation with Hezekiah was sometime between 690 to 686 B.C.E. 

If there is a conclusion to this story, the Neshama Soul of King Sennacherib will someday in the future be placed the body of another Military Force Commander at the end of days. In the next article, we will explore who this military archetype will become at the “end of days” when the final calamities will fall upon the nations of the world. At the “time of the end” these celestial calamities will bring the divine judgment of G-d upon all peoples; depending upon our relationship, obedience and alliance with the powers of the heavenly archons. 

Isaiah 37:36 - “Then the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when the people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses-all dead.  So, Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.  

Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat.  Then Esarhaddon his son reined in his place.” 

Then the promise came to King Hezekiah from the Prophet Isaiah for his people:               

2 Kings 19: 29-31 (Isaiah 37:30-32) – “This shall be a sign to you:  You shall eat this year such as grows of itself and in the second year what springs from the same; also in the third year; sow and reap. 

Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.  And the remnants who have escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.  For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.” 

Here were the blessings of the G-d of Israel, blessings that once again will reign down upon not only the Jewish people’s but also upon the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. 

Ezekiel 36:22-23, 24-28 (parts); 33- - “Therefore, tell the house of Yisra’el that Adonai Elohim (L-rd G-d) says this: 

‘I am not going to do this for your sake, house of Yisra’el, but for the sake of my Holy Name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you went.  I will set apart my Great Name to be regarded as holy, since it has been profaned in the nations – you profaned it among them. 

They will know that I am Adonai,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘when, before their eyes, I am set apart through you to be regarded as holy. 

For I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all countries, and return you to your own soil. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you…I will cleanse you from your uncleanliness…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside …You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors. 

You will be my people, and I will be your G-d…When the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause cities to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt. The land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see. 

They will say, ‘the land that used to be desolate has become like Gan Eden (Garden of Eden)…Then the nations around that remain will know that I, Adonai, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was abandoned. I, Adonai, have spoke; and I will do it!”

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Metatron as King Messiah   

zPart One – “Shiloh, the Neshama of the Neshama Soul of Moshe the Redeemer”  

Part Two – “MemTet, the Angel of Divine Presence, as the Messiah and the Five Souls of Man” 

Part Three – “Metatron, the Angel of the Divine Presence is Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah)” 

Part Four – “The 2015 Houston Shavuot Flood, the Prophecy of Meidad at Sinai: Flooding the Land of the Gogs of Magog” 

Part Five – “Tisha B’Av (9th of Av) and Gush Katif Disengagement: Preparing for the Final Judgment when Metatron arrives as King Messiah (Melekh HaMaschiach)”  

You might Want to Read the Entire Series of the Apocalypse of Nibiru 

Nibiru and the Final Apocalypse of Planet Earthz 

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“Is “Planet X” God’s Divine Judgment during the Final Apocalypse of Redemption?

“Velikovsky and Sagan – The Quest to Understand Catastrophic Earth History” 

“The Spiritual and Scientific Quest to Find Planet X” 

 “Nibiru, the Binary Twin Dwarf Star arrives to our Solar System’s Sun with Planet X” 

 “The Cataclysmic Role of a Binary Dark Star for the Coming of the Messiah” 

“The Future Cataclysms on Earth through the Eyes of Jewish Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky” 

 “The Portents of a Global Famine in the Years of 2009-2011” 

“Mayan “End of the Fifth World Age’s” Conjunction with the Biblical Apocalypse” 

 “The Hebrew Watchers and Giants as the Sumerian Annunaki and the Nephilim” 

The day is coming soon when Hashem the G-d of Israel will stretch forth His great hand of judgment and cleanse the earth from the great pollution of man upon Planet Earth. He will take away the “blood oaths” from between the mouths of the Palestinian Arabs.

He will restore the Land of Israel back to “Am Yisra’el”, that means both the House of Joseph (All Ten Tribes of the House of Israel), and the House of Judah. 

He will then redeem and restore His own “sheep” back into a living relationship with Himself. If you are chosen, as a Lost Tribal Member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, your destiny is to return to your Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel, 

Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove, 

as a Reception from the House of Judah is forming to Welcome the Returning House of Israel. 

For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!” a Bed and Breakfast Guest House with Kosher Cuisine, and Tours of Biblical Shomron (Samaria) and Judea. Welcome and Visit, Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to your Future Homeland! 

DISCLAIMER - Kol Ha Tor is an independent commentator and may or may not agree with the contents, the views, interpretations and opinions as expressed by the independent theological and/or political views of Destination Yisrael. 

Destination Yisrael scans the world for information that has relevance on the time of the end.  It is our prayer that this will allow the believers in the Almighty One of Israel to “watch and be ready”.  Our readiness has nothing to do trying to halt the progression of evil on our planet earth.  In our readiness, we seek to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah of Israel so that goodness and evil will be manifested in its fullest. 

Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth.  The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel.

In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information.  We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah, the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament, and the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo ben Zalman (famed Vilna Gaon) called the “genius” in the 18th century, and his vision of the final redemption in his collection of writings highlighted in his supernal understanding of the Torah, the Prophets and Writings as outlined in the Kol Ha Tor.  

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07/19/2017

The Messianic Rising Mega-Trends are now Enveloping the Whole World

What is Happening in the Jubilee Year of 5777?

Higher Dimensional Spiritual Consciousness
Moving to a Higher Dimensional Consciousness from the Shorelines Planet Earth
 

1st, The Exponential Rise of the Yehudi Neshama (Jewish Soul) erupts from the Second Amona Catastrophic Evacuation in the Jewish year of 5777 as Observant Jews living in Amona were driven from their homes by Israel’s Attorney General whose legal opinion prohibited Jews for living in Shomron and Judea; the Biblical Heartland of Israel. 

Evil forces at Expulsion of Amona 2005

The Evil Forces at the first Expulsion of the Jews in Amona in Shomron in 2005

2nd, A Massive Surge of the Har Ha Báyit (Temple Mount) Spiritual Consciousness erupts after the death of the young Jewess dancer, Hallel Yaffa Ariel A’H by a young Palestinian Terrorist who breached the walls protecting Hebron. Hebron was the city where David first went to dwell and there was anointed king by the Tribe of Judah as the King of Judah. It was in Hebron that King David, at the age of 30, first began to rule. Soon after, he obtained the Tabernacle of the Dwelling in Gibeon and erected it in Jerusalem on Mount Zion.

  Hallel Yaffa Ariel AH with her mom  Rina Ariel

Hallel Yaffa Ariel A”H with her mother, Rina Ariel

Hallel Yaffa Ariel supporters ascend Temple Mount in Memory of death

Parents of Hallel Yaffa Ariel and Hundreds of supporters arrive to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in memory of Hallel Yaffa Ariel

3rd, A Massive Surge of Spiritual Consciousness erupted as thousands of Jews and “Christian loving Israel” Evangelical Christians ascended the Har Ha Báyit (“The Mount of the House”) known as the “Temple Mount” beginning on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and continuing through Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot (Pentecost) showing that the G-d of Israel is spreading and enveloping His “Divine Spirit” upon His people on Planet Earth.  

  Jewish conflict on Western Wall w Women at the Western Wall

“Intimacy equals Conflict plus Change” so as Jews seek HaShem so they must seek Resolution of Conflict with each Other: HaShem should always be first in our lives 

4th, The Jewish Religious forces of Dissent and Rebellion between the Hareidi, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism plus "Women at the Western Wall" will Herald a futuristic Rise of Edenic Consciousness on praying to HaShem at the Western Wall recognizing that “Intimacy with HaShem and our fellow man equals Conflict with mankind plus Change in our Love and Relationship with G-d and also mankind.

Trumpian Revolution against Syria and ISIS

The Trumpian Revolution against Syria and ISIS continues as Ishmaelite-Amalek Hegemony of Power in the Middle East begins to Vaporize.

 5th, The Trump Spiritual Revolution called “America First”, meaning “G-d First” heralds the end of the Ishmaelite rule over the World as the Masonic Illuminati storm America, Europe, and Vatican Enclaves; just as ISIS now threatens to destroy Vatican Rome.

Angela Merkel and Ishmaelite crisis in Europe
The European Union pays the lives of their citizens for the Syrian refugees imbedded with ISIS and Islamists. This will be the destruction of national Lost Tribe of Israel culture of Europe as French and German Jews evacuate and flee to Israel.

6th, The Lost Israelite Neshama, the “Neshama Israeli” blossoms forth into a new planetary awareness and reality as the forces against HaShem, by the Dark Forces of HaSatan seek the destruction of Europe and America, the largest homelands of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel as Hitler’s daughter, Angela Merkel whose destiny was to create the 4th German Reich yet instead opened the “gates” of the Middle East into Europe and with Obama into America so that hundreds of thousands of Ishmaelites are now imbedded on the two continents as Angela Merkel and now Barak Obama prepare to flee Europe and/or America.  

Neshama Souls of the Lost Jews and Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel

The Flowering of the Neshama Souls of the Lost Jews and Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel prepare to create a new higher state of spiritual consciousness.

 7th, The Supernal Universal Force of HaShem, the One G-d of Israel is today creating a Solar and Universal catastrophe that will catapult and lead to the prophetic destruction of Planet Earth as this one “Dwarf Star called Nibiru” by the ancient Sumerians, or “Nemesis”, G-d’s agent of planetary destruction before it begins its transformation of Planet Earth into Gan Eden, a New Garden of Eden on Planet Earth in the Land of Israel.

Metatron, the “Angel of the Divine Presence” who also carries with it the 70 Divine Names of G-d will also unleash the ascension of 4th Dimension Consciousness as G-d’s Chosen People (Klal Yisrael) both Jews and Lost Israelites alike begin their spiritual evolution as they are “transformed in a twinkling of an eye” as the Divine Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) transforms G-d’s Holy Ones into their new cosmic awareness.

They will be waiting as G-d “opens the gates of heaven” and the Meta-forces of the Maschiach ben Yosef unite with the Meta-Forces of the Maschiach ben David, called “Metatron” or Mem-Tet, as the Neshamas of the “Lost Ten Israelites” blossoms open by the Divine Spirit as a massive counterforce of French-German Jews flee and return to their Jewish homeland in Israel.

This cosmic event will open up the vortex for the vast Ingathering of upwards to 2-3 billion of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel in Europe and America as Jewish and Lost Israelites flee to Israel while the Obama-Clinton imbedded ISIS rise up in South America and head north to bring devastation to North America; the last bastion of Nazarene-Essene Christianity.

Nibiru  the Dark Binary Star returning to Earth

The Emergence and Revealing of Nibiru, the Dark Binary Star, the Twin to our Sun’s Solar System as it prepares for a Close-Fly to Planet Earth bringing G-d’s Judgment upon Planet Earth

Though the revelation of the approaching Dark Dwarf Star has been circulating around the world since the 1983 announcement by the Washington Post, it disappeared from all news channels shielded by President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States from 1981-1989. NASA has been in charge of the cover-up for the past 24 years. As first reported in The Washington Post:

The Washington Post on December 30, 1983 

“A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite.

So, mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby "protostar" that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through.

"All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview.

The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that it is a giant gaseous planet as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as 50 trillion miles.

While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone's throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto.

"If it is really that close, it would be a part of our solar system," said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University's Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team.

"If it is that close, I don't know how the world's planetary scientists would even begin to classify it." The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the satellite ran out of the supercold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens.

The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge of the constellation Orion in that time.

"This suggests it's not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we've observed and a comet would probably have moved," Houck said. "A planet may have moved if it were as close as 50 trillion miles but it could still be a more distant planet and not have moved in six months’ time."

Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above "absolute" zero, which is 456 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is so sensitive it can "see" objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero.

When IRAS scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be as close as 50 trillion miles, there was some speculation that it might be moving toward Earth. "It's not incoming mail," Cal Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can."

Then, what is it? What if it is as large as Jupiter and so close to the sun it would be part of the solar system? Conceivably, it could be the 10th planet astronomers have searched for in vain. It also might be a Jupiter-like star that started out to become a star eons ago but never got hot enough like the sun to become a star. While they cannot disprove that notion, Neugebauer and Houck are so bedeviled by it that they do not want to accept it.

Neugebauer and Houck "hope" the mystery body is a distant galaxy either so young that its stars have not begun to shine or so surrounded by dust that its starlight cannot penetrate the shroud. "I believe it's one of these dark, young galaxies that we have never been able to observe before," Neugebauer said. "If it is, then it is a major step forward in our understanding of the size of the universe, how the universe formed and how it continues to form as time goes on."

The next step in pinpointing what the mystery body is, Neuegebauer said, is to search for it with the world's largest optical telescopes. Already, the 100-inch diameter telescope at Cerro del Tololo in Chile has begun its search and the 200-inch telescope at Palomar Mountain in California has earmarked several nights next year to look for it. If the body is close enough and emits even a hint of light, the Palomar telescope should find it since the infrared satellite has pinpointed its position.”

Effect of the Red Binary Star Nibiru upon North and Central America
 
 The Potential Effect of the Red Binary Star Nibiru upon North and Central America

 

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8th, The Dark Binary Red Dwarf Star, Nibiru, began its divine mission it is believed with the “Great Flood of Noah” and continued its apocalyptic mission as the “Death Angel” of the Exodus (1575 BCE) with the words, “I will pass over you when I see the blood”.  It may now return as HaShem’s final agent of judgment upon Planet Earth. The approaching Dwarf Twin Star, Nibiru, devastates the “Climate Change Hoax” as it creates   havoc to the world and raise the bottom of the Great Oceans of the world as it wipes out 80% of American and European coastal cities.

Building Boom in the Shomron and Judean Region of Israel

Building Boom in the Shomron and Judean Region of Israel

9th, The Catastrophic Megatrend continues after the first fly-by of Nibiru, Planet X or the Twin Binary Star. The most catastrophic affect upon America will be the rise of the Deep Sea Oceanic Trenches under the Pacific Ocean that will inundate all the cities along the Western Coastline of the States of Washington, Oregon and California, putting even Utah and parts of Northern Colorado under water.  This will include Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

Yet, this cataclysm will also affect the Eastern Coastline of the United States that will also inundate the megacities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, all the way down to Miami. In the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans and Houston will be swamped up to 100 or more feet.

  New York and London under water after Nibiru Flyby

New York and even London are expected to be underwater after the Nibiru’s Global Catastrophe

10th, The death of the Jewish settlements of Gush Katif and Amona will erupt into the final battle in the Land of Israel as the Jewish people and the return of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel go into battle to free the Land of Israel from Canaanite, Philistine, Palestinian and Amalek control of the Mountains of Israel. These are the Biblical homelands of our ancestral forefathers; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and they will be returned to their original owners.  The era for the repopulation of the Mountains of Israel in Shomron and Judea has now come.

This “drawing of a third of the angelic hosts in heaven and throwing them to the earth, as we now see ties in with the great war in heaven.

Prince Michael fighting with Lucifer as he is cast out of Heaven

The Prince Michael fighting with Lucifer as he is cast out of Heaven

11th, The American Jews are emancipated and now free by the “Trumpian Cyrus the Great to begin the restoration of Klal Yisrael (All Israel), Jews and Lost Israelite’s alike as the global expansion of the Commonwealth of Greater Israel begins to reign.

Metatron, the Commander of the Heavenly Hosts will be in Battle in the 3rd and 4th Dimensional realms as the Forces of Michael the Archangel will be in Battle for the preservation of the Land of Israel, the preservation of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount as the Ingathering of the Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel will gain supremacy and control Planet Earth as the seven dimensions of Heaven are wrestled and freed from the Dark Forces of HaSatan and Planet Earth.

According to the Enochian and Essene traditions accepted by the Beit Hillel in the 1st century, the Heavenly Forces with Michael the Archangel will be in Battle in the Heavens with the Dark Angelic forces under the military control of HaSatan as they devolve into the 3rd Dimensional Sphere.

Revelation 12:7-8 – “And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels (stars) fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.

12th, The Alien 1/3rd of the angelic forces against the Creator G-d of Israel devolve into the 3-dimensional consciousness while the Ingathering of the Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel evolve into their 4th dimensional consciousness as they return to claim their Jubilee inheritance in the Land of Israel.

The number of 12 is the framework of the archetype of all creation including the 12 gates and 12 foundations of the New Jerusalem plus the 12-tribes of Israel

According to Elohay Neshama: 

The soul that You, my G-d, have given me is pure.
You created it, You formed it,
You breathed it into me,
You protect it within me,
and You will someday take it from my body
and return it to me in the world-to-come.

As long as my soul is within me,
I give thanks to You Adonai,
my G-d and the G-d of my ancestors,

Master of all Creation, L-rd of all souls.
Praised are You, Adonai,
Restorer of souls to bodies that have died.

Continuing with the theme of Modeh Ani, we thank G-d each morning for restoring our souls to us after a night’s sleep. The sub-text is that even as G-d restores our souls to us each day after a “mini-death” (i.e., sleep), God will someday restore our souls to us after our real death (i.e., in the world-to-come).

The question is often posed whether Jews believe in life after death. Although Christianity tends to emphasize individual salvation in the world-to-come while Judaism speaks of the need to perfect the world in which we live today.

It is important to remember that Christianity took the concept of life after death directly from its parent religion. Eternal life is one of the most important doctrines of rabbinic Judaism, and Elohai Neshama is a daily reaffirmation of that doctrine.

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Metatron as King Messiah   

Part One – “Shiloh, the Neshama of the Neshama Soul of Moshe the Redeemer”  

Part Two – “MemTet, the Angel of Divine Presence, as the Messiah and the Five Souls of Man” 

Part Three – “Metatron, the Angel of the Divine Presence is Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah)” 

Part Four – “The 2015 Houston Shavuot Flood, the Prophecy of Meidad at Sinai: Flooding the Land of the Gogs of Magog” 

Part Five – “Tisha B’Av (9th of Av) and Gush Katif Disengagement: Preparing for the Final Judgment when Metatron arrives as King Messiah (Melekh HaMaschiach)” 

You might Want to Read the Entire Series of the Apocalypse of Nibiru 

Nibiru and the Final Apocalypse of Planet Earth  

HaShem’s Emissary brings Judgment and Redemption for the Lost Tribes of Israel

 Topics 

 “Is “Planet X” God’s Divine Judgment during the Final Apocalypse of Redemption?”   

“Velikovsky and Sagan – The Quest to Understand Catastrophic Earth History” 

“The Spiritual and Scientific Quest to Find Planet X” 

 “Nibiru, the Binary Twin Dwarf Star arrives to our Solar System’s Sun with Planet X” 

 “The Cataclysmic Role of a Binary Dark Star for the Coming of the Messiah” 

“The Future Cataclysms on Earth through the Eyes of Jewish Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky” 

 “The Portents of a Global Famine in the Years of 2009-2011” 

“Mayan “End of the Fifth World Age’s” Conjunction with the Biblical Apocalypse” 

 “The Hebrew Watchers and Giants as the Sumerian Annunaki and the Nephilim” 

 The day is coming soon when Hashem the G-d of Israel will stretch forth His great hand of judgment and cleanse the earth from the great pollution of man upon Planet Earth. He will take away the “blood oaths” from between the mouths of the Palestinian Arabs.

He will restore the Land of Israel back to “Am Yisra’el”, that means both the House of Joseph (All Ten Tribes of the House of Israel), and the House of Judah.  

He will then redeem and restore His own “sheep” back into a living relationship with Himself. If you are chosen, as a Lost Tribal Member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, your destiny is to return to your Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel, 

Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove, 

as a Reception from the House of Judah is forming to Welcome the Returning House of Israel.  

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06/26/2017

Is the Yellowstone Caldera preparing to become part of the Messianic Process of Redemption

Yellowstone Caldera

The Yellowstone Caldera attacked with Hundreds of Earthquake Waves

Psalms 104:32 – “Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.” 

In the early days of June, 2017, a recent wave of over 770 tremors in upwards of 4 magnitudes centered around Yellowstone raises the fear of the threat of a Mega-Super-volcano in the heartland of America. There has long been a scientific premise that when the “Big Quake” erupts it will destroy the core of the United States of America, the home of the largest number of the Jews in the Diaspora but also the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel in the world. 

There is no doubt in the eyes of the national seismologists say that this event will happen. This week it may be the foretaste that such a catastrophe could “hit sooner rather than later”.  In the land of Israel several rabbinic sages are suggesting that the terrifying prediction of such an event occurring in the remolding of Planet Earth into a new Garden of Eden, may not be as catastrophic as the scientists think, for it may occur during the merging of the Meta-Forces of the Messiah son of Joseph and the Messiah son of David merge into a universal force called the Melekh Ha Maschiach. 

Today, Yellowstone Park attracts thousands of tourists who come to witness God’s creation, but the enormous crater, in all its beauty, is not only testimony to His creative majesty but also a testimony to Hashem’s destructive anger as well such as occurred in the Great Flood of Noah. 

In the center of the park is a caldera crater that competes with the amazing Grand Canyon further to the west in Arizona which scientists postulate is the product of “17 million years of patient aquatic erosion”. These supposed scientific observations were refuted fully with the international debate in the scientific community at the 15th International Sedimentological Congress when the ardent Creationist Dr. Art Chadwick and E. Kennedy at Southwestern Adventist University in 1998 documented that the deep-water deposition of the Tapeats Sandstone in the Grand Canyon did not occur in millenniums but in catastrophic “months and years” such as in the Great Flood of Noah. 

At the same time, the “centerpiece” of the equally amazing Yellowstone Park is a 40-mile wide caldera crater, which occurred by a sudden cataclysmic geologic explosion, “short term geology” according to scientists 630,000 years ago, as compared and opposed to “biblical catastrophists” who scientifically can prove occurred during the age of mankind; now according to the Seder Olam Rabbah, written by Yose ben Halafta, about 160 CE concerning the history of mankind since the Creation of Mankind, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has been less than 5,777 years Recent seismic activity suggests this tranquil natural refuge may be ready to revert to its violent and catastrophic past. 

It was in 1985 that Yellowstone experienced 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes a year with 40-50% of them occurring in earthquake swarms. As of June 17, of this year, the caldera was already experiencing 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes a year — with 40 to 50 percent of them happening in swarms. 

The quake activity is caused by the large number of faults in the park associated with the volcano that underlies Yellowstone.

Geothermal Calderon

Geothermal Calderon at Yellowstone National Park

It was a year ago, that Yellowstone began rumbling in its sleep as rumbled in its sleep, with three quakes ranging from 3.7 to 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. Last week Yellowstone rumbled again, but with greater intensity. On Thursday evening, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook the region, the epicenter approximately eight miles northeast of Western Yellowstone in Montana. 

The next morning, three more quakes measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale hit in the same area. On Monday, a series of 30 more tremors shook the area. In total, there were over 200 quakes in four days. 

Just a few days prior to the wave of earthquakes, Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, an Israeli kabbalist noted for his accurate predictions, warned that earthquakes are about to become more common in the world. He made an analogy between natural disasters and current global politics. 

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi - “All the nations of the world are in great confusion. There will be more earthquakes felt because there is no stability in the world.” 

Later, it was Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, who make the following the observations. As Rabbi Berger noted that disasters, natural and manmade, seem to be striking faster and harder than in previous generations. 

Rabbi Yosef Berger – “Tsunamis, earthquakes, and forest fires are more catastrophic than ever, despite technology giving us the ability to cope with them better. And now scientists tell us of threats we absolutely cannot protect ourselves against; like a volcano that threatens the world.”

Experts are concerned that recent signs of  increased seismic activity in Yellowstone National Park could be the prelude to a massive eruption that, even by conservative estimates, would have global implications, including nationwide food shortages. A Jerusalem Kabbalist explains how this was prophesied in the Bible to be a painful but necessary part of the Messianic process. 

Today, the signs of seismic activity are beginning to simmer and become more explosive.  Debunking the recent “climate change” hoax, where it was purported that “Global Warming” came from “above” but in reality, the oceans of the earth are getting warmer from “below”. This is caused as the iron magnetic core of the earth is churning with greater and greater intensity. The magma is swelling upwards towards the mantle of the earth erupting into volcanoes under the oceans. In this instance, the mantle of the earth is lifting upwards with explosive and hot volcanism while raising up the deep 10,000 foot trenches of the Pacific and other oceans upwards.

Boiling Shosone Riv

Boiling Sulphuric Acid in the Shosone River nearby Yellowstone National Park 

Yet so far, Yellowstone Park caldera did not explode into a massive volcano with the classic volcanic cone. Instead Super-Volcanoes like Yellowstone create a massive hole, in this case a 3,500 square-mile crater. It was only a month-ago that the Shoshone River flowing nearby started boiling. The water of the Shoshone changed colors and rancid sulfuric odor contaminated the air, not seen in over 200 years.  

Historically, this sight of boiling water and sulfuric smell no doubt like was seen in the mega-catastrophe in the Veil of Siddim when the angels of Hashem destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. These recent volcanic rumblings are only considered small tremors and are common.  In the last few days, Yellowstone was struck by a series of relatively large tremors. On June 9, a magnitude 3.7 earthquake hit the region, on June 13 there was a magnitude 4.3 earthquake, and on June 15, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0. 

Though most people associate seismic calamity with the California and the Pacific Crescent of Fire, Yellowstone sits on what scientists consider the single most dangerous volcanic site in the world. A major eruption at Yellowstone would bring on global disaster. 

The present scientific opinion is that such an eruption happening at one of the major volcanoes within 80 years is put at five to ten per cent by the experts, and Yellowstone could very well be it.

Caldera Size and Vo

Yellowstone Caldera Size and Volume of Volcanic Ash in comparison to other Eruptions 

Underneath Yellowstone lies a reservoir of magma more than twice the size previously thought. A US Geological Survey (USGS) study in 2014 discovered that the lava reservoir is enormous: 55 miles by 20 miles on each side and about 6 miles deep. This is as full as it was when it erupted in prehistoric times. 

A super-volcano at Yellowstone has the potential to spew more than 240 cubic miles of magma across Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, more than 1,100 times the magma that flowed from Mount Saint Helens in 1980, killing 57 people. Experts estimate that a Yellowstone eruption would kill 87,000 people instantaneously. 

A catastrophic eruption in Yellowstone would immediately threaten people in the heartland of America, but the more devastating effects would be felt across the entire country and perhaps even the world. 

A layer of ash would cover the entire US and southern Canada, causing damage and preventing air travel. Europe experienced this in 2010, when relatively small eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland led to 20 countries closing their airspace to commercial jet traffic, affecting about 10 million travelers. 

Mount St. Helen’s
 
Mount St. Helen’s Volcanic Eruption in 1980 

When the G-d of Israel in His Divine “Acts of G-d” chooses to cleanse Mother Earth and restore her back to the idyllic era of Gan Eden (Garden of Eden) the remolding process will be by cataclysmic events such as Vulcanism, Asteroid impact, Fly-by of Earth’s Twin-Star Nibiru, while transferring His Chosen People into a 4th Dimensional Consciousness. These super-forces will be a part of that spiritual cleansing by the “Hand of the Divine”. 

A catastrophic eruption in Yellowstone would immediately threaten people in the heartland of America, but the more devastating effects would be felt across the entire country and perhaps even the world. 

Yet, such an eruption would be more than an inconvenience to visiting tourists vacationing in Yellowstone or its affects upon the herds of bison in the park. As correctly concluded by the research by the University of Utah researchers; they called this magma reserve under Yellowstone National Park, “one of the planet’s biggest time bombs” in earth’s history.

The Ash Fallout
The Ash Fallout of Yellowstone Explosion across the United States 

Its affect upon the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel today living in America would be astronomical. The population of the United States is represented today as the “Lost Sheep of the “Tribe of Manasseh”, who first colonized the Eastern Seaboard of the United Stated in the 16th to the 19th century. 

Their descendants who live today in continental United States will constitute a large percentage of the world’s population known as the “Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel” who were sent into exile into the lands to the east called “The Medes” in the region later called Khurasan; in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and ancient Persia by the Caspian and the Black Seas. 

It is estimated that in the total population of the world community today that the “Lost Tribers” may be as close to 2-3 billion inhabitantes of a total of 7.4 billion inhabitants upon Planet Earth today. These included the land of Khurasan, the ancient homeland of the “Medes and the Persians”. 

When the Almighty One G-d of Israel sent the “Lost Ten Tribes” into exile, they dwelled and impregnated the lands across Eurasia with their tainted image of the One G-d of Israel. This was part of their rebellion against G-d. 

They included those living in the Buddhist regions of Nepal and India to the Aryan tribes in India with Hinduism, the Zoroastrians in Persia, and the Pilgrims and Puritan Visigoths, Cathars, the Huguenots and the Waldensians that were slaughtered by the Roman Inquisition of the 17th century who became the 1st pioneers and colonists of the future United States of America. 

So again, their descendants today live in the regions from Khurasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan to the west across the Caspian and Black Seas below Eurasia, to the Scandinavian homelands of the Royal Viking Norsemen in the North, the Celtic and Cymric regions of Gaul in Northern Europe and the Isles of the West in Ireland, Scotland and ancient Britannia. They were the Visigoths and Vandals who toppled Rome four times when they invaded Gaul in Europe as the Gothic tribes. 

It would result in a massive mega-aliyah “return to the lands of their forefathers. There they will live on their tribal lands of their inheritance as the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. This new homeland will be in Shomron, Judea to the west of the Jordan and the tribal lands of Gad, Reuben, Simeon living again with their flocks in the lands to the east of the Jordan River after escaping a catastrophic cataclysmic holocaust. 

This global catastrophe could potentially create a new “ice age” or in the hands of the Holy One of Israel, the return to Gan Eden, the renewed “Garden of Eden” on Planet Earth as we develop into our 4th dimensional future.

After a rash of earthquakes in April, Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri, a known Kabbalist from Jerusalem, told Breaking Israel News that this was prophesied in Psalms for the end of days. 

Psalms 104:32 – “Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.” 

According to Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri in Jerusalem: 

Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri – “This describes what will happen in the End of Days before the final redemption. There will be an earthquake in Israel, but it will be beneficial, opening up the Temple Mount, bringing forth living waters, purifying the city to receive the Messiah.” 

When asked about the seismic activity in Yellowstone, the rabbi explained that in the book of Zechariah, it is prophesied that two thirds of the world will be destroyed by fire in the end of days. 

Zechariah 13:9 – “And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on My name and I will answer them; I will say: ‘It is My people’ and they shall say: ‘Hashem is my God.’ 

Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri – “The entire world will see earthquakes and eruptions in the end of days. It will purify Israel, just as a mikveh (pool of water) purifies, but for the rest of the world it will purify by fire, like a crucible.” 

The rabbi explained that volcanoes are explicitly mentioned by the prophets as playing a role in the end of days, preparing the world by burning away impurities as a crucible is used in metallurgy to purify metal. He cited Zechariah as a source for this. 

Zechariah 13:9 – “And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on My name and I will answer them; I will say: ‘It is My people’ and they shall say: ‘Hashem is my God.’”

Rabbi David Berger suggested a simple faith-based solution to cope with the threat.

Rabbi David Berger – “By strengthening the belief in all of creation being one, and bringing our will in line with the will of the Creator, we can bring nature back in line with the will of the One. This is especially true in our generation, in the moments before the final redemption.”

Zechariah 14:9 – “And Hashem shall be King over all the earth; in that day, shall Hashem be One and His name One.”

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You might want to Read Destination Yisra’el on Volcanic Explosions in 2010 

Catastrophic World Famine is heralded by the Eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull Glacier Volcano 

Will Iceland’s Volcano wreck our Global Climate as Famine encompasses our Globe? 

The World’s most Dangerous Volcanoes – and We thought the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in Iceland was a Problem? 

Icelandic Volcanic Ash sends Massive Ash Clouds Paralyzing Air Traffic in the Lands of the Lost Tribes of Israel 

American Food Price Inflation beginning to Spiral out of Control 

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Metatron as King Messiah  

Part One – “Shiloh, the Neshama of the Neshama Soul of Moshe the Redeemer” 

Part Two – “MemTet, the Angel of Divine Presence, as the Messiah and the Five Souls of Man” 

Part Three – “Metatron, the Angel of the Divine Presence is Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah)” 

Part Four – “The 2015 Houston Shavuot Flood, the Prophecy of Meidad at Sinai: Flooding the Land of the Gogs of Magog” 

Part Five – “Tisha B’Av (9th of Av) and Gush Katif Disengagement: Preparing for the Final Judgment when Metatron arrives as King Messiah (Melekh HaMaschiach)” 

You might Want to Read the Entire Series of the Apocalypse of Nibiru 

Nibiru and the Final Apocalypse of Planet Earth 

HaShem’s Emissary brings Judgment and Redemption for the Lost Tribes of Israel

 Topics

 “Is “Planet X” God’s Divine Judgment during the Final Apocalypse of Redemption?”  

“Velikovsky and Sagan – The Quest to Understand Catastrophic Earth History” 

“The Spiritual and Scientific Quest to Find Planet X” 

 “Nibiru, the Binary Twin Dwarf Star arrives to our Solar System’s Sun with Planet X” 

“The Cataclysmic Role of a Binary Dark Star for the Coming of the Messiah” 

“The Future Cataclysms on Earth through the Eyes of Jewish Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky” 

“The Portents of a Global Famine in the Years of 2009-2011” 

“Mayan “End of the Fifth World Age’s” Conjunction with the Biblical Apocalypse” 

“The Hebrew Watchers and Giants as the Sumerian Annunaki and the Nephilim” 

The day is coming soon when Hashem the G-d of Israel will stretch forth His great hand of judgment and cleanse the earth from the great pollution of man upon Planet Earth. He will take away the “blood oaths” from between the mouths of the Palestinian Arabs, He will restore the Land of Israel back to “Am Yisra’el”, that means both the House of Joseph (All Ten Tribes of the House of Israel), and the House of Judah.  

He will then redeem and restore His own “sheep” back into a living relationship with Himself. If you are chosen, as a Lost Tribal Member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, your destiny is to return to your Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. 

To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel, 

Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove, 

as a Reception from the House of Judah is forming to Welcome the Returning House of Israel.  

For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!” a Bed and Breakfast Guest House with Kosher Cuisine, and Tours of Biblical Shomron (Samaria) and Judea. Welcome and Visit, Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to your Future Homeland!

 DISCLAIMER - Kol Ha Tor is an independent commentator and may or may not agree with the contents, the views, interpretations and opinions as expressed by the independent theological and/or political views of Destination Yisrael.  

Destination Yisrael scans the world for information that has relevance on the time of the end.  It is our prayer that this will allow the believers in the Almighty One of Israel to “watch and be ready”.  Our readiness has nothing to do trying to halt the progression of evil on our planet earth.  In our readiness, we seek to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah of Israel so that goodness and evil will be manifested in its fullest. 

Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth.  The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel.

In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information.  We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah, the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament, and the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo ben Zalman (famed Vilna Gaon) called the “genius” in the 18th century, and his vision of the final redemption in his collection of writings highlighted in his supernal understanding of the Torah, the Prophets and Writings as outlined in the Kol Ha Tor.  

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06/18/2017

Special Edition: The First Lamb from the Speckled and Spotted Flock of the Patriarch Jacob in 2000 years has now been Born in Israel.

First Jacob Lamb born in Isra

Destination Yisrael has been ardently following the saga of the redemption of the Speckled Black and White Sheep from the flock of the Patriarch Jacob.  Now the first lamb born in the State of Israel in over 2000 years has now been born.

Genesis 30:32 – “I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire.”

The first Jacob’s Lamb was born in the land of Israel for the first time in over two millennia. This lamb’s auspicious birth came last month in the Jordan Valley. As revealed by One of Israel’s Torah Code sages, very precise instructions have now been uncloaked in the sheep’s role in bringing forth the Third Jewish Temple and its sacred mission.

It was last November, 2016, that 119 of Jacob’s Sheep arrived in the land of Israel after a 2000-mile journey across Western Canada to Eastern Canada. They were then sent on special air flights by El Al, the Israeli National Airline from Canada to Israel.

The sheep are such a rare breed that high level international cooperation took almost a year to complete before the sheep arrived in the Land of Israel. Now, Destination Yisrael is delighted to share the first birth announcement of the 1st baby lamb born in the Land of Israel since the days of our Patriarch Jacob.

Laban’s homeland in Padan Ara

Jacob went to Laban’s homeland in Padan Aram near Haran in Mesopotamia 

These sheep are specially known for their genetic purity. They came from the flock of Jacob’s uncle, Laban, in Padan Aran, who lived in the land of Mesopotamia. The arrival of sheep genetically pure from the sheep in Patriarch’s Judah’s flock as he left Laban’s homeland in Mesopotamia have now returned home to the lands of their patriarchal sheep herders. 

These same sheep later “went down” during an era of great famine in the Middle East to Egypt. At this time, the 70-member family of Jacob traveled to Egypt under the protection and guardianship of Joseph, the Vizier of Mitzsrayim (Egypt). 

This rare flock of precious sheep, 119 in all, have now returned to the ancient land of Canaan, now the State of Israel. This type of sheep is very robust in health as they were genetically cloned by the Patriarch Jacob when he herded the flocks of Laban in the  watershed rivers in Mesopotamia.  

Biblical experts now believe this unique breed, originally raised by Jacob over 4000 years ago, accompanied the Hebrew family of 70 into Egypt. Over several generations the Children of Israel eventually sunk into slavery in ancient Pharaonic Egypt. 

After the Exodus from Egypt, the flocks of sheep wandered in the wilderness with the Children of Israel after their encounter with the G-d of Israel at the mount called Sinai. Later, after settling in Canaan, the tribes of Manasseh, Gad and Reuben lived on the eastern side of the Jordan River (in the regions of Syria and Jordan today).  After the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temples of Solomon and Herod the Great, the sheep spread to Northern Africa. 

It was the Moors in Northern Africa along the Mediterranean coastline that traded the sheep to Spain. The Spanish royalty then shared them to Ancient Britain where the British baronial families used them on their “parklands” with their manor homes in the country. 

Since that era, the sheep have been considered a “heritage breed” as their genetic lineages remain pure and they can thrive in desert climates and are unique by having 4 to 6 horns. 

It was in the end of May, 2017 that Gil Lewinsky was contacted by Simcha Treister, a Bible Code expert in Safed on the Galilean coastline, who discovered a hidden role of Jacob’s sheep in the era of the New Holy Temple. Simcha Treister described his unique method in using intervals in the entire TaNaKh (Bible) that were based on date timing.  As Simcha Treister described his code breaking revelations: 

Simcha Treister – “I searched intervals of 5777 letters in the Bible, since that is this year in the Hebrew calendar. The word tzoan (“flock” in Hebrew) appeared in this interval, perpendicular to the word “Gil”, the owner’s name. Directly above these words is the word ‘Moshiach’ (Messiah).” 

Messiah Code for Flock  Gil

The Biblical Code for “Flock”, “Gil” (Lewinsky the owner) and Messiah (Maschiach)

When the hidden message code included the name of “Gil” the owner of the flock, he called Gil Lewinsky and gave him the exciting message. The “flock of sheep” were coded together with the owner’s name, “Gil” and completed with the Hebrew word, Maschiach the name of “Messiah”.  

The sheep are now home near the Jordan River. Jacob’s Sheep finally made aliyah to the Land of Israel. One hundred and nineteen sheep first made a 2,100-mile journey from their original home in Vancouver in Western Canada to Eastern Canada where they were quarantined. 

Now all 119 sheep are safely home after flying from Canada to Israel. They traveled in eleven separate flights after their quarantine was completed in Canada. 

The challenges were formidable, but the Lewinsky family, creating a not for profit farm to maintain the flock of sheep have now opened the gates for the International world to participate in the public campaign to maintain their not-for-profit flock. In an effort to raise funding, they have launched a public campaign to help in the expenses called ‘Name a Lamb’. 

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“Special Edition: The First Lamb from Speckled Flock of the Patriarch Jacob in 2000 years has now been Born in Israel” -  June 8, 2017

“The Divine Messianic Mission has been revealed with the Arrival of Jacob’s Sheep to the Land of Israel” – January 10, 2017 

Patriarch Jacob’s Sheep discovered, now prepared for Aliyah to the Land of Israel and herald the Future Messianic Era of Spiritual Enlightenment – April 18, 2016

Special Edition: The First Lamb from the Speckled Flock of our Patriarch Jacob has now been born in Israel, the first time in over 2000 years. - June 18, 2016

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At the time of the end the G-d of Israel will use all of His Chosen Ones of Israel to complete His divine destiny for Planet Earth. Most of these chosen ones will have no idea of their chosen destiny. They will become the prime actors in the final act of the “Drama of the Ages”. In that day when the Messiah of Israel does reveal himself, also will be revealed all those whose destiny were linked to that august moment in human history. 

For inquiries about the Vilna Gaon's Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit their Web Site 

 “Kol Ha Tor”, 

 They also offer – “a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to their chosen destiny. For details refer to Shomron Lives!” 

DISCLAIMER - Kol Ha Tor is an independent commentator and may or may not agree with the contents, the views, interpretations and opinions as expressed by the independent theological and/or political views of Destination Yisrael

Destination Yisrael scans the world for information that has relevance on the time of the end.  It is our prayer that this will allow the believers in the Almighty One of Israel to “watch and be ready”.  Our readiness has nothing to do trying to halt the progression of evil on our planet earth.  In our readiness, we seek to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah of Israel so that goodness and evil will be manifested in its fullest. 

Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace.  Our defender is the Metatron, the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth.  The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel. 

In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information.  We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah, the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament, and the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo ben Zalman (famed Vilna Gaon) called the “genius” in the 18th century, and his vision of the final redemption in his collection of writings highlighted in his supernal understanding of the Torah, the Prophets and Writings as outlined in the Kol Ha Tor. 

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