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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thoughts on Carbon-14 and Climate Carbon Science in general

Immanuel Velikovsky, though controversial, explored the dating methods using Carbon-14 in relation to Egypt. In his analysis, such as wood samples from Tutankhamen artifacts, Egyptian chronology is generally 300 to 800 years confused.
http://www.varchive.org/ce/c14.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/tc14.htm

There are several themes that run through an ancient redating process, and theoretical science, sad to say, is one of them. Theoretical science is often hindered by ignorance which rules out visible acts seen in Nature / Creation which tells us that life never runs at an absolute regularity or constant (storms and their activity to soil and strata prove this) and in reality, must allow for metabolism and nature to some degree run at a differing speed now than 4,000 years ago by an unknown rh-factor (as it relates to blood and metabolism)  and an unknown x-factor.

An example of putting forth a theory of science in a place where we can see the application more rigidly, I can put forth a clear answer to the Riemann hypothesis after this fashion. Remember, this is just an example of theoretical science. In his hypothesis, Riemann used Gematria and 4 languages to show a formula where .33 = .33 using a cubicle, or three-dimensional analysis, as does Einstein in his E = mc square formula. Riemann, as a student of Hebrew and Greek under his theologian father, was aware that the Greek letters, created at Phoenicia, were actually shapes from a lost art of mathematical engineering calculations using a cubicle or 3-dimensional expression. In our day, we have to use computers to rediscover what some ancients already knew. By taking his formula as a simplified expression of symbols and Gematria, Riemann was able to use a shortcut method of verifying his calculations, which is exactly what geniuses are able to do. And to this day, mathematicians are taking the long way round, when the short method is what Riemann was teaching us by his example.

In this, we formulate an hypothesis knowing the history of Riemann, his hobbies, his correspondence, his habits, his past writings...and we reach an intelligent alternate theory as to what lay behind the riddle of his hypothesis. It doesn't have to be correct...simply plausible enough to be correct. And strangely enough, the debate about ancient history, is done in much the same way. The more we know...then the more we know. We are information junkies in need of learning as much as we can, because so very few of us can sift and properly analyze the dat we have received from the ancient past.

Getting back to Carbon - 14:

Our Northern Hemisphere river run-off in our current day is probably much slower than even 200 let alone 2,000 years ago. An example of this was a report done on the speed of the flow of Niagara Falls in the 1700s, and the erosion process decreasing over many decades. The run-off, as we have seen in a recent rain in Texas, can be the equivalent of 50,000 to 80,000 years of corrosion in a matter of a few days., baffling those of the related Earth Sciences.


Compared to the era of the Black Sea deluge, even our planetary and magnetic conditions are different. Our magnetic sphere is decreasing at a rate that cannot allow the Earth to be older than 80,000 years, for example, without attaining polarity equivocal to a forming star. Ozone levels and human population conditions are vastly different. And especially important to radio carbon dating, the amount of water available to evaporate into the atmosphere (such as in non-glacial form) will also affect carbon dating.

We know that the ancient testimony was that Europe was still a glacial wilderness as late as 1000 B.C.; and this can be seen (or perhaps we should say, reasoned) in the very slow migration into the Continent. For example, why did Rome form in the 700s B.C., and never expand first to unoccupied Gaul and further inland northwards? The Celts themselves are tracked as in the northern regions of Turkey and near the Caspian Sea, yet 600 years later, they are only just settling in Gaul. Why? Their Germanic cousins have moved into central and western Europe from Macedonia, of which Alexander was. why did it take so long, if not for Glacial recession?

Again the amount of water available to evaporate into the atmosphere (such as in non-glacial form) will also affect carbon dating.

When the Mediterranean began to rise, that Sea flowed into the Black Sea basin, and filled it. The question, is when? Greek history tells us of the great cataclysm, or destruction by water and ice.


It is important that we realize that modern and past science does not hold the answers. And more and more, we have to apply what we know in combination with the past testimony of the ancients. Too many people wish to rewrite H.G. Wells as George Orwell did, and make a new history of the past that never existed based on a philosophy to the exclusion of a Creator.

Exploration of various concepts and theories was and is a learning experience. For example, I would recommend the reading Immanuel Velikovsky’s correspondence with Einstein:
http://www.varchive.org/bdb/main.htm
http://www.varchive.org/cor/einstein/index.htm

Even if Velikovsky’s theories are controversial, and sometimes incorrect, follow the line of reasoning of his contentions with ancient Greek and Patristic literature:

1) Electromagnetism or other forces yet unknown or uncomprehended may play a more important role in the human history and hence the local cosmos than has been generally recognized heretofore:

2) It is quite obvious that the alleged chronology of ancient Egypt is seriously flawed, which many historians apparently lean on too heavily as if factual, and create new history based on flawed interpretations of Egypt's chronology.


Other writings of Velikovsky should be read and thought upon.
http://www.varchive.org/tac/index.htm


http://www.varchive.org/dag/index.htm

http://www.varchive.org/itb/index.htm

http://www.varchive.org/ce/index.htm

In doing so, plausible explanations to miraculous events may spring to mind. For example, though somewhat off the subject: Has science ever considered the effect of a moon sized Ice Comet colliding with the sun? If so, would the projections be similar to what happened at the time of Christ's crucifixion, between noon to 3 pm -- that is, an effect spoken of in Acts and Joel?

Iin Velikovsky's way of looking at things, the idea is to present valid theories to consider, not in having the absolute truth. And if time and science proves otherwise...then at least we arrived to a point of greater knowledge and understanding much more quickly because we examined all the data and possibilities.

My take, based on Greek and Patristic historians and apologists, is that the Black Sea began to be filled in 1551 B.C. at the time of the Hebrew exodus and the explosion of Santorini island.

In regard to Carbon-14 dating, we need a basic understanding: http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/99invest.Site/science-briefs/ace/ed-radioact.html
http://www.c14dating.com/int.html
http://www.moravek.com/

These will illustrate or concentrate on the theme of a Carbon increase when life dies...but no one dares factor in the Earth's population explosion and other Carbon releases in the last 300 years. So if the part per million (ppm) of Carbon is increasing in the atmosphere to 350 ppm, we are increasing animal and human life and death while decreasing the ratio of plankton and plant life compensation to off-set the increase. We need more trees and shrubs and plankton to perpetuate life on Planet Earth...but instead, politicians and multi-owning Corporate movers and shakers would rather establish a New World Order and oppress mankind into slavery to some kind of world government.

But in regard to Carbon-14, the spike and adjustments in life and death variables of mass populations or regions is never factored in the Carbon-14 dating; making C-14 projections into the ancient past an often unreliable exercise that cannot be technically called "scientific" because so many results can come from the same batch of ground, even if created at about the same time.

Maybe there is some concern when Carbon-14 is scaled back by other concerns from Creationists:
http://www.creation-science-prophecy.com/C14fp.htm
because science, when removed from the myth of evolution,
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles_alpha.htm
offers a perspective that leaves evolution as more than a little inconconclusive
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/41/41_1/Helium.htm
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/40/40_3/Henry.htm


Compare the last above link article with Nasa:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/17jan_solcon.htm

Ozone holes are noticeably affected by volcanic eruptions...but our concentration on Carbon-14, says NASA, spills over into other dating problems:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/1211millenium.html


And what about approved teaching materials?

Try this Home page: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

And this Carbon-dating section:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/cardat.html#c2

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Has Carbon-14 and its relation to Ozone holes and Global warming been truly thorough? Or asked another way, has the primary collected data from 1962 -1993 that sparked the Global Warming Crisis theories been inclusive of affected nuclear detonation test areas?

North and Southern hemisphere raw data 1962-1993
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ndp057/

"ABSTRACT
Nydal, R., and K. Lövseth. 1996. Carbon-14 Measurements in Atmospheric CO2 from Northern and Southern Hemisphere Sites, 1962-1993. ORNL/CDIAC-93, NDP-057. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 67 pp.

In the 1960s, thermonuclear bomb tests released significant pulses of radioactive 14C into the atmosphere. This major perturbation allowed scientists to study the dynamics of the global carbon cycle by measuring and observing rates of isotopic exchange. The Radiological Dating Laboratory at the Norwegian Institute of Technology performed 14C measurements in atmospheric CO2 from 1962 to 1993 at a network of ground stations in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

These measurements were supplemented during 1965 with high-altitude (9-12.6 km) air samples collected using aircraft from the Norwegian Air Force. The resulting database, coupled with other 14C data sets, provides a greater understanding of the dynamic carbon reservoir and a crude picture of anomalous sources and sinks at different geographical latitudes.

This database is outstanding for its inclusion of early 14C measurements, broad spatial coverage of sampling, consistency of sampling method, and 14C calculation results corrected for isotopic fractionation and radioactive decay. This database replaces previous versions published by the authors and the Radiological Dating Laboratory.

Fourteen stations spanning latitudes from Spitsbergen (78°N) to Madagascar (21°S) were used for sampling during the lifetime of the Norwegian program.

Some of the stations have data for only a brief period, while others have measurements through 1993. Sampling stations subject to local industrial CO2 contamination were avoided.

The sites have sufficient separation to describe the latitudinal distribution of 14C in atmospheric models. The sampling procedure for all the surface (10-2400 m asl) 14C measurements in this database consisted of quantitative absorption of atmospheric CO2 in carbonate-free 0.5 N NaOH solution. The 14C measurements were made in a CO2 proportional counter and calculated (14C) as per mil excess above the normal 14C level defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Atmospheric 14C content is finally expressed as 14C, which is the relative deviation of the measured 14C activity from the NIST oxalic acid standard activity, after correction for isotopic fractionation and radioactive decay related to age."

And later on...

"...The 14C tropospheric data show a sharp increase in tropospheric radiocarbon levels in the early 1960s and then a decline after the majority of nuclear tests came to an end on August 5, 1963 through the Test Ban Treaty.

The sharp peaks in tropospheric radiocarbon in the early 1960s are more pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere, reflecting the location of most atomic weapons tests. The measurements show large seasonal variations in the 14C level in the early 1960s, mainly as a result of springtime transport of bomb 14C from the stratosphere ...

During the 1970s, the seasonal variations are smaller and are partly due to seasonal variations in CO2 from fossil-fuel emissions. The rate of decrease of atmospheric radiocarbon provides a check on the exchange constants of the atmosphere and ocean."

In the 1970s, the Science Czar John Holdren joined many others in stating that the fluctuations of Carbon had no effect on preventing the coming Ice Age in the next 30 years. If Science Czar Holdren had it wrong then, what qualifies him to disqualify others like Richard Lindzen, far more competent, honest, and data focused than he? In fact, Holdren, who prefers mass sterilization via public drinking water...even though it might sterilize and make extinct animal life in those same local regions used, is a Liberal ideologue who injects his liberalism into the science, making him a quack.

Some may say Carbon-14 doesn't matter, because science now claims the Universe is 15 Billion years. The number keeps growing by the billions with each generation because of a liberal ned to deny G-D. In regard to a less than 12,000 year old universe in a 15 billion year Big Bang Universe, nuclear physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder presents an interesting concept of time and space that I think anyone fascinated with age and the Universe.
http://www.geraldschroeder.com/HiddenFace.aspx


It isn't as heavy as one might expect.

Again, reiterating how the complex issue can really be quite simple to solve. Some have called the Riemann hypothesis a near impossible mathematical riddle. It isn't. Riemann was multi-lingual, so a basic knowledge of his interests and capabilities was the key in deciphering that riddle...and it was quite easily done for someone knowing what the keys were. Languages in the elements of the formula itself, as seen through the 19th Century mind. By converting the Riemann hypothesis into 4 languages plus a fifth element, the formula simply states that .33 = .33 (using Gematria as part of the solution). In another example, in reading the mathematical sequence and formulas in the strokes of Greek Letters, by converting them into a 3 dimensional manifestation, we discover the same basic mathematical principal of Einstein's E = MC2 as a Greek cubicle of the letter for 900, in the same manner or way that the Riemann hypothesis is a cubicle summation that uses simplicity to ensure accuracy, going back to his theological studies in Hebrew under his Christian theologian father, etc. These claims can be duplicated by any Technology Institute in the world. The only question is, "will the resultant technology created from this insight open for mankind a Pandora's Box"? It could to some extent, perhaps...but the Bible assures us that the Jesus will never let mankind fully extinguish himself as a species.


In the 1970s, the Science Czar John Holdren joined many others in stating that the fluctuations of Carbon had no effect on preventing the coming Ice Age in the next 30 years. If Science Czar Holdren had it wrong then, what qualifies him to disqualify others like Richard Lindzen, far more competent, honest, and data focused than he? In fact, Holdren, who prefers mass sterilization via public drinking water...even though it might sterilize and make extinct animal life in those same local regions used. Copenhagen is a means of unleashing 1500 Holdren-like quacks -- (many of whom may me complicit in falsifying Climate Science Data to editorial license like Holdren himself has done http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17183 ) -- via a One World Government upon the Earth.

At Copenhagen, the United States will be in a Group chaired by Australia, and also represent New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, and Norway. The Chair, also speaking for its member partners, with a US Department of State or higher Representative, has already pledged to sign the Copenhagen One World Government Treaty...in spite of its bad science used for creating what has to be a violent world oligarchy and enslaving system.

Land Shift and change to Israel's (and world) topography in 1551 and 1511 B.C.?

Dealing with the Cataclysm of 1551 B.C., in which a Harvard geologist, Professor Reginald Daly, for 30 years taught of a simultaneous ocean floor drop of 20 feet.
http://www.varchive.org/ce/ocean.htm

In Geographical studies, we se the examples of Solifluction in which whole mountain-sides and hill-sides can shift with Water saturation. We also see landshifts known as Creeps, Slumps, and Earthflows in modern natural disasters to make us aware that sometimes the Earth is not as permanent as we would like to believe. This is especially true during an Earthquake.

In our own recent history, in the U.S., we can see how a simple Earthquake rockslide can create a new lake in a matter of weeks.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1959_08_18.php

But what hapens when natural disaster strikes on a mega-scale, such as the ocean floors dropping 20 feet?

I believe that there was a "drift" of some parts of the Sinai landmass of upwards to several miles west and northwest during the Cataclysm of 1551 B.C. -- when the Hebrews literally crossed the deep waters of the Red Sea in the vicinity of 29.34.20.45 and 32.21.12.17 E. -- and the Grecian peninsula was swallowed up by a Tsunami as a result of a Sinaiatic drift.

If we follow the Jordanian Valley mountains past Tall el-Hammon (a site north of the Dead Sea, east of the Jordan River) on the Eastern side, we find that this Jordan River Valley once flowed straight down into the Gulf of Aqaba. But on the western side, beginning at about the location of Masada, there is the beginning of a drift, or pulling action that could have occurred on the affected western Judean hill range , which opens up until just north of Har Ya'alon. That is an area of about 83 miles long. What if these mountains were much more aligned with one another?

The hypothesis would then go something like this. The southern Canaan suffered an above 12 magnitude (an unknown number) specifically directed earthquake in the general vicinity between what is now the southern Dead Sea and points south, perhaps on a fault-line. The direction shooting the Earthquake in a north-westerly direction and primary shock zone.

As a result of the dropping of oceanic floors, a liquifaction of the Sinai landmass in the area in question created a drift of anywhere between several and as many as twenty (?) miles , until it seemed as mountains or hills were rolling across the land as though logs on a wave. Hence, Psalm 114:3-7's testimony. The Sinai gained as many miles outwardly on its shoreline beneath and up through the Gaza strip area.

The reason why the Grecian peninsula received the brunt of the Tsunami, was because it was in this area that the land was pushing out against the Mediterranean, so that the picking up and transfer of energy sent the great way on a one way path of destruction, as it were.


(This scenario is not in any way related to that of the Indonesian Tsunami of 2004, for those who might bring that one up.)
http://geology.com/articles/tsunami-map.shtml

The Dead Sea area of the Jordan Valley would have then collapsed some 600 - 800 feet or more, creating the Dead Sea lake...not by a rockslide, but by a widening of the Valley and a slumping effect. The valley north of the Dead Sea also widened out, but not as dramatically, from perhaps a width of 6 miles to its current approximate 9 mile width; and decreased in elevation by only as many as 200 feet as a result of this same event. Whereas, in the Dead Sea portion of what was once the southern Disc or Kikkar region, the tear and shift was more sharp and arcing, creating a greater collapse in land elevation.

Therefore, for the archaeologists and scholars who wish to have their South of the Dead Sea or Southern Theory for the location of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to be justified geologically... to some extent, we may also have to also put forth the possibility of such a recorded event as above to justify the topography we now find today, as we debate or discuss the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.

And in so doing, we find that archaeology must sometimes also reach out and incorporate many sciences into explaining the past to us, while making the complicated simple and reasonable in their explanation, and in their presenting the veracity of a matter of history (or its reconstruction).

A Change in Topography from then to today:

While in Hebron, in the plains of Mamre (Gen. 18:1)

Genesis 18:16 (My Translation)
And the men
rose up
from thence,
and leaned out to peep and gazed
in a downward manner (as from a window) toward
Sodom:
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.


In regard to Hebron, Genesis 19:28, Numbers 21:20 and 23:28, all employ a “leaning out and gazing in a downward manner, [Heb."shaqaph"] as though from a mountain" or an especially greater height than now exists in Israel. In Judges 5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out leaning and gazing down (from) at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Hebron was where Abraham saw the smoke of Sodom's destruction ascend like a furnace.
Even if we allow for Abraham to have built a watch-tower, it appears that the literary evidence of the Bible suggests a change in the topography of Israel, and tells us specifically in various passages that this indeed is the case.

A look at science supports the possibility also.

The Dead Sea Rift is technically considered as a volcanic fault which extends from southern Turkey and onward through the Dead Sea and onward.
http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-98-7-2/yer-7-2-1-97012.pdf

The basalt content appears to be concentrated in points north from the shallow southern end of the Dead Sea, especially in the mid and northern end.
http://www.jmo.org.tr/resimler/ekler/6a558d97954d069_ek.pdf?dergi=T%C3%9CRK%C4%B0YE%20JEOLOJ%C4%B0%20B%C3%9CLTEN%C4%B0


YÜRÜR M. T. (1) ; CHOROWICZ J. (2) ; (1) Hacettepe University, Department of Engineering Geology, 06532, Beytepe, Ankara, TURQUIE (2) Université Paris 6, Géotectonique, Case 129, LGGST, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, FRANCE

In their joint report, they (among others) note that strike slip and extension tectonics have shown that the rift has moved westward according to their structural mapping.

They specifically mention the presence of the Dead Sea's "Amanos fault", creating an oblique slip-tension, “giving rise to a fissure-fed, mantle-derived alkaline volcanism”.

This could be viewed as cause to state a hypothesis that the moving of the western lands at the Dead sea were once at a much greater rate or distance -- via a sudden great tension release, like being at the bottom of a linen tear -- than that experienced in Anatolia or Lebannon.

And even though Anatolia in the NOW moves west at 7 millimeters a year, and Sinai at 5 millimeters a year in the NOW…if magma induced…the distances could rapidly increase from millimeters to miles for a matter of days.

This Dead Sea “ fissure volcanism produced tholeiite [low-alkali basalt usually commonly formed underwater ] followed by alkali basalt along the Amanos fault, the northern end segment of the Dead Sea Fault”. That is, it produced that low-akali magma that is part of that magma that also greases the movement of land masses, FIRST...being that which is also involved in the quick creation of Islands (or land masses underwater).

RE: Journal of volcanology and geothermal research ISSN 0377-0273 CODEN JVGRDQ
1998, vol. 85, no 1-4 (542 p.) (1 p.1/4), pp. 1-15 Publisher Elsevier, Amsterdam, PAYS-BAS (1976) (Revue)


In reading the above, now apply the testimony of Psalm 114 with the notion of the above Dead Sea Amanos fault and related Earth Sciences to how all this was affecting the region of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, with both volcanic and tectonic action in play.

LITV

Psa 114:1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psa 114:2 Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His kingdom.
Psa 114:3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back; Psa 114:4 the mountains skipped like rams; the little hills like lambs!
Psa 114:5 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
Psa 114:6 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O little hills, like lambs?
Psa 114:7 Tremble, O earth, from the face of the Lord, from the face of the G-D of Jacob; Psa 114:8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.


It is unclear if an earthquake is expected now to have accompanied the striking of the rock in order to redirect underground water streams for Moses and Israel's sake...but the language of Psalm 114 clearly indicates a traveling of mountains and hills at the two events of 1551 B.C. at the Red Sea, and 40 years later at the 1511 B.C. Jordan crossing. These would have had to have been whopping regional earthquakes to melt hearts as far away as Babylon, and to visibly move mountains and hills across measureable distances from what they were previously (according to Psalm 114). Since Babylon was out of the cone intensity shock zone by many hundreds of miles, this would be like Los Angeles California epicenter projecting a northwesterly shock and Tsunami blast launching a 400 foot tidal wave, and hearts melting for the shock and jolt in way northeasterly Salt Lake City many hundreds of miles to the peripheral.

The magnitude of these quakes would literally be off our Earthquake measurement charts had they happened in our day. And unfortunately, such or greater than the 1551 and 1511 B.C. epicenter will be felt 100% world-wide on Day 1291 of the coming Tribulation Period transforming into the Great Tribulation, when the Earth wobbles its Crust until it reels to and fro and skips the Magmaas if an orange peel skin suddenly came loose from the fruit within and "slipped".

Sunday, November 22, 2009

John 1:1 and the Trinity explained (short version)

John 1:1
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with G-D, and the Word was G-D."

In actual order, John 1:1c reads, "and G-D was the Word". / kai Theos een ho Logos.

En arche een ho Logos,
kai Logos een pros ton Theon,
kai Theos een ho Logos.
(John 1:1 in Greek transliteration)

The Verb in the Greek will generally have 5 features:
1) tense, 2) voice, 3) mood, 4) person, 5) number

Tense: There will be six tenses in the Greek.
1)Aorist (a simple undefined action),
2)Future (action in the future),
3)Imperfect (continuous or linear action in the past),
4)Perfect (action or process in the past that continues up to the present),
5) Pluperfect (action in the past that had continued up to a point of conclusion in the past),
6) Present (contemporaneous action)


En - A preposition: meaning "In", "at", "near by", "near to" (an object, place, or location). Sometimes translated as "on", or "upon".

This preposition may be translated as "among" when coupled with "mesos" ('to be in the middle'): bringing out the thought of - as "being in...", "being at...", "being among a..." 'multitude' or 'gathering' of people. (cf. Matthew 2:6; 11:11,21).

In John 1:1, en is used as a definitive point in time during which an event is taking place "in". (Cf. Matthew 2:1, 3:1, 8:13).


"(the) Beginning":
Arche'
- an anarthous noun. Anarthous means "to be without joints". In Greek Grammar, this simply means that this noun is found without a definite article (such as being preceded by "the"). That is, there is no "ho" or "the" Arche. This emphasis is placed first upon logos, as "ο λογος" or "THE Word".

In classical Greek, its verb (archo) is found in the "active" Voice. An "active voice" is defined as: "that action which is represented or being accomplished by the subject of the verb." (Or a definition to this effect.) When we look at Arche, (the) Beginning in John 1:1, we are pointed to the word "Bereishis" in the Hebrew. What happened in Genesis 1:1? In the beginning G-D made the heaven and the earth. (Gen. 1:1) And how does John begin His Gospel? In the beginning was the Word....

So what is happening here in John 1:1 with Arche, (the) Beginning?

The Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 freely translates to the effect of: "In the beginning of God's creating of the heavens and the earth."
Therefore, we are to look and see John 1:1 in light of Genesis 1:1's "dynamic" of an active Creator (cf. John 1:2-3).


Jesus is the 2nd person of the G-Dhead, whom before the incarnation,
was not only "pros ton Theon" / "with G-D",
in John 1:1...Jesus WAS G-D "kai Theos een ho Logos" / "and G-D was the WORD".

In the Greek, the article simply highlights the theme of what the author wishes to say, and its absence before Theos in John 1:1c simply declares: Jesus is not the totality of the G-Dhead, but the essence of the totality may be found in Him, though not in Jesus only. This is also true of the Father and of the Son. Jesus is as He was before, "pros" / "up alongside with" the Father.

The Father is the Primary Person and Jesus and the Holy Spirit are persons who are extensions of the Father. This Trinity calls itself as "G-D", and as One United / "ehad" Being in the Hebrew, while also comprised of 7 spirits: 1) Father, 2) Son, 3) Holy Spirit ...these having individual intelligence and personality, though inflective and reflective as One and the Same Being; 4)Father-Son, 5)Father-Holy Sprit, 6) Holy Spirit-Son, and 7) The Collective Spirit of Father-Son-Holy Spirit.

When John refers to G-D, he infers the specific person of the Father. It appears that at some time in eternity past, perhaps maybe there was a one person and one Spirit Deity. When He expanded Himself from Himself, G-D did not cease to be G-D, He merely became a Trinity of Persons with a completeness of interconnection in and of His own Being. He did not "create" the persons of the Son and the Holy Spirit, these persons were in the one person Being and were as if one-third of his substance stepped out and became, and another third stepped out and became. The original substance that did not step out we know through Jesus as the Father. This is how it appears to be explained and inferred, it seems to me...and I am trying to be as accurate in accounting this as I can. Hence, the pre-incarnate WORD, whom we now know as the incarnate Jesus, was not created...being G-D...but of a sense begotten through the Virgin whom He chose to done flesh and come as a human through.


In John 1:18, the essence of the Greek is that, "He who is the Bosom [throne area within the Cherubim/Seraphim creatures] of the Father, has declared that no man hath seen G-D [directly, and as He is] at anytime." This is true. Have we seen directly even our own souls? Even ghosts and dreams are projections to which the naked eye can understand. Whatever G-D is, He (as a Being) is Spirit (John 4:24), and our worship is invisible (in Spirit) and in truth. It manifests in an outwardly form that we can grasp and understand.

In Lamentations 4:20, we are told that HASHEM is Messhiach, and the same HASHEM who created man in Genesis 2:7.

Micah 5:2 describes His origins as from of old, even to the everlasting ages of the everlasting ages.

John 1:1-18 informs us that this one is Jesus Christ. He was at the “Beginning”, at the αρχη, the “Bereshith”, or “beginning of all time”, as expressed in Genesis 1:1.

So when John uses protos in Revelation 1:5, when he quotes Messiah Yeshua as “the First”, he does not just explain Messiah as being just a “first one” born from the dead, but reaches for a deeper meaning. Christ is “before the birth”,/ πρωτοτοκος of all Creation, as Paul cites in Colossians 1:15. He bears forth the Creation of the universe by His power, the power of the spoken word (Hebrews 11:3, Isaiah 14:24).

The Father thinks it, the Son speaks it into existence (John 8:28,38; 12:49; 14:24; Psalm 119:160, 33:6,9). Cf. the “Oneness of GOD” in John 10:30, Deuteronomy 6:4, Zechariah 14:9. Isaiah 48:16-17 lists a LORD YHVeH, YHVeH Spirit, and YHVeH the Redeemer; the Old Testament origin to Matthew 28:19’s justified use of “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”.

In John 1:3 , of the LORD Messiah, we are informed twice that “all things through Him εγενετο” -- all things came into being at a point in time when the “Beginning” was in a new state, and still unfolding into existence (i.e., ginomai being twice in the aorist). “Egeneto” is followed immediately by an emphasis on ginomai’s perfect tense: “gegonen”. This tells us the continuing existence of the new state that has come into existence, as being upheld by the word of His power (as it were).

In Lamentations 4:20 and Genesis 2:7, we see that this NAME is the sound of living breath...inhale masculine YH, (representative of the masculine Father and Son) ...
and the exhale feminine VeH (representative of the Holy Spirit).

This exhale feminine as a person of the Holy Spirit is pointed to (though darkly) by Job 27:3. In Job 26:13, we see the "hand" (Messhiach) is He who created the serpent or seraph (i.e., the Creatures of Creation). In that verse, the "Spirit" is whom "garnished the heavens". The word "garnish" is "Shiprah", which is effectively translated as "to order about so as to trumpet forth in clearness." In other words, to establish an order and enlightenment that reveals Christ in a clear, loud, and resonating way.

The Holy Spirit care-takes and aids in the order of this Universe as the third person of the G-Dhead, guiding -counseling - teaching of Yeshua (as a mother would teach her children, perhaps), but operating within the parameters of glorifying the Son -- Yeshua, Jesus Christ (Romans 8:2; Isaiah 40:13, John 16:13, Psalm 104:1-6, Job 38:5-6, Genesis 1:2, Revelation 22:17).

In Psalm 111, we read that:
2) The works of the L-RD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
3) His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
4) He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the L-RD is gracious and full of compassion...
7) The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
8) They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

Jesus said, "I am the truth" in John 14:6, which is also a claim to origins from before all that was made was ever made, a claim of being the Uncreated and Creator. Arche and Bereishis are more than just words of a "Beginning" of G-D's great works, they testify as keyword signs bringing into reminiscence, remember G-D's creating the Heaven(s) and the Earth. Hence, with Arche in John 1:1, we come to a definitive point in time...a starting point for when all this happens.

In the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1, there is an arugument that can be made that the Alef-Tav which follows Elohim (G-D) refers to Jesus, the Alef-Vav-Tav ("oth" - sign) that "is to come".

The root word "to come" in Hebrew is Alef-Tav-He. If taken in that context...we jump to Revelation 1:11 with Jesus declaring himself as equivalent of the Hebraic Alef-Tav in Genesis 1:1. Hence...a Beginning...a creating of both the Heavens and the Earth to testify as G-D's sign "to come" is revealed as having been fulfilled in Jesus, with Jesus, and through Jesus in John 1:1.

In Genesis 1:2, we see the person of the Holy Spirit hovering and fluttering (in the Hebrew) as a dove over a valley habitation (cf. Eze. 7:16) after that Job 38:4-7 has already occurred. Arche - In the classical Greek, its verb (archo) is found in the active voice. In comparison, the verb "to be" (eimi) is found in all 3 voices of active, middle, and passive. We do not see the middle voice in Arche (e.g., then shall I begin). Nor do we see Arche in the passive (I had begun).

In the English translation from Greek, the English language does not use a "middle voice"...only an active and passive. Translating that gap, will be the responsibility of a translator; but Arche in John 1:1, being in the Active Voice, informs us that the action of "(the) Beginning" clearly is being accomplished by "ho Logos", the subject of the verb (whom we know is Jesus Christ).

In the New Testament, the verb "archo" places an emphasis upon rulers who are to be described as "First" men (Romans 15:12, Mark 10:42).The noun "archon" informs us that these are men who are "First" in power. When Jesus speaks with Nicodemus in John 3:1, he was speaking to more than just a member of the Sanhedrin. Nicodemus was "First" in Eretz Israel. Beyond the walls of Jerusalem, he must have had the title of "Chief Rabbi", and have been one of the 7 elders of the Sanhedrin.

G-D is more than just being First. G-D is our finality or End. G-D is our perfect source of change into perfection, and our Eternal Life. G-D never changes, but we --His Creation-- do change. What does that tell us about why G-D created a Beginning in the first place?


By the WORD of the L-RD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." (Psalm 33:6)

Colossians 1:15-17 {of Christ] :

"who is the image of G-D the invisible before-the-birth of all Creation because in Him were created all the things in the heavens and those upon the Earth, those invisible and those invisible: whether thrones, whether lord-ships, whether (first)rulers, whether authorities - ALL THINGS THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM HAVE BEEN CREATED, and He is prior to all things, and all things in Him *stand*together*with*(Him)* / *stand*because*of*(His power)."
-- Translation mine.


Existing prior to all things, and all things finding their existence / birth / origin in Him: all Creation is upheld or cast down for HIS glory, and by HIS power. One word translated a little differently than you might be used to seeing, is "prototokos". Translated as First-born in the KJV, in Colossians and Revelation 1, it is Proto ("before") and tokos (from 'tikto' - meaning "to bear or bring forth"). In these two passages (Col. 1:15, Rev. 1:5, especially -- the more correct Greek to English usage is "before the birth".)

Hence, exercising His right of inheritance to all things from His Father as He who is legally - a First-born as He existing "before the birth" of all Creation and all things created that were created (hence as uncreated G-D in G-D).

Revelation 1:8 - I AM -- the Alpha and the Omega, (the) Beginning and (the) End, says the L-RD: The BEING, and who was, and who is returning (as) the ALMIGHTY

Revelation 1:11 - I AM -- the Alpha and the Omega -- the FIRST [He before all] and the Last [the most extreme end, to the end of forever]. (Direct Greek to English translation)

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of G-D, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
When John uses the word prototokos in Revelation 1:5, he does NOT "just" explain Christ as being the first one born back from the dead...but instead, reaches down, and digs deeper into its meaning.

Christ is not only "before the birth of all Creation", but:

"He (is) before the birth out of the dead (ones), and the Ruler of the Kings of the Earth." (Revelation 1:5) This relates to His Messianic lineage, and His origins in eternity, as stated in Micah 5:2 ...He shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

In Colossians 1:15, Paul refers to Christ as the "prototokos pases ktiseos" -- "(the) One who is pre-eminent above and over all Creation and its Creatures."

If we compare this to Revelation 3:14's "he arche tes ktiseos", we see that Jesus as the Logos is (again) the Source or First-Cause of creation, the Intelligent Reason issued forth from G-D the Father taking on personhood; and that is why He has pre-eminence: because - "in Him, life was; and the Life was the Light of men. All things were made by Him. And without Him, was not made any (thing) that was made." (John 1:4,3).
In John 1:3, using the word "ginomai" (the Greek verb which means "to become"), we are informed that it is through the Logos (of John 1:1) that: "all things through Him CAME INTO BEING (egeneto) and without Him CAME INTO BEING (egeneto) not even one (thing) that CAME INTO BEING (gegonen)."

Ginomai in the aorist is egeneto...referring back in Time to a point when the "beginning" or "New State" was occurring or still unfolding into existence. That is, it had now been made manifest as that creatio ex nihilo (that which was created from nothing), yet made sure and called "good"; but was still being made "complete". You might liken it to watching a blade breaking ground, and growing and growing; then budding, and finally blooming as the flower opens to its fullness and beauty.

After the aorist, we move from egeneto to gegone...the perfect tense of ginomai. Gegone speaks of the continuing existence of this Beginning is dependent upon the Logos of John 1:1. That is, "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." (Job 26:7)

The hanging of the earth and all existence is continually upheld by the Logos of G-D the Father -- His Intelligent Word, whom is Christ Jesus-- and the power of His will, the same will as that of the Father. Hence Jesus and the Father are One (united in Complex Unity) / echad (John 10:30).


The Early Church Fathers clearly refute anyone who denies the Sonship of Jesus as being both One with the Father, and a separate person who came forth FROM the Father. The failure is not in G-D's Oneness, it is in man trying to depreciate G-D to human or fleshly limitations. As if, "I can't do this or that...then how dare anyone say the Almighty can!" Precisely...G-D is Almighty.

The debate against the Oneness doctrine is seen with Ignatius (Letter to the Ephesians, 7.2), through Irenaeus (Against Heresies, 4.38.1,3), and on up to the very council of Nicea. And the difference can be ever so slight...and a great debate can erupt by the early Church over just one "n" in the reading. Where in certain usage “Gennatos" deals with generation or parentage, while the singular "n" word of "Genatos" deals with aspects of creation. Jesus is uniquely Gennatos kai aGennatos, begotten and unbegotten. And through that experience, he must be distinct from the Father...for it does not say that the Father is clothed in flesh upon the throne, nor that the Spirit returns from Heaven in a bodily form saying He is now somebody else (but really the same "Person", as someone's philosophical lunacy has prescribed).

Again, Irenaeus 4.38.3 tells us of this separately enough to be distinct and yet united entity we call "the Son" who is both begotten and unbegotten, who is part of the ONE Triune G-Dhead:
"...the uncreated G-D --
the Father planning;
the Son carrying these into execution and performing the work of creating;
and the [Holy] Spirit nourishing and increasing...."


Jesus is begotten, not made, homousios with the Father...as John 1:1 tells us in the Greek, though containing the fullness of G-D, he was not the totality of G-D...which is why He was "pros" (up, alongside, and with). And why the article in 1:1c did not rest on Theos (kai Theos een HO Logos) but on Logos. Hence it did NOT read "and (the) G-D was was the Word", as to infer fullness or totality in the person of the Word, but rather was "and the Word was G-D"...inferring fullness, but not totality.

I Corinthians 13:12, Paul uses the term prosopon pros prosopon to describe what the English translate "face to face".

Jesus is pros, up alongside and with, pros ton Theon, up alongside and with G-D in John 1:1. He stands or sits next to the Father, even as Moses stood next to the Angel of YHVeH and spake as one would speak "face to face" in the Torah.

Prosopon also incorprates "ops" as its root word (think "optical"), that which is seen with the eye. It can mean just about anything, and usually translated to mean a surface or face of something.

As 'prosopo", as used in 2 Cor. 2:10, we have it translated as "presence" (RSV)/ "person" (KJV) in the sense that Paul, the apostle of Jesus, represents the presumption of the gathering of two or three persons required for Christ to be in their midst.

Hence, when Jesus is pros ton Theon, He is beside something more than just the person of Himself, He is beside the separate person of the Father...but He is One in and with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

For in effect, the expression in the "love chapter" of I Cor. 13 of
prosopon pros prosopon is of:
1) a person looking out,
2) seeing another person up alongside and with...upon his left, and;
3) seeing another person up alongside and with, upon his right.


But Jesus is not just a mirror reflection of the Father, which He is, but Jesus is also a person of substance and being who is one with the Father. A human son has no more than 50% of his father's fleshly dna in his substance, but G-D the Holy Spirit and G-D the Son have 100% of the Father's substance in them, making them ONE and uniquely the One United Being we call G-D, and the Blessed Trinity.

As for us, as the Apostle John said, "Beloved, now are we the sons of G-D, and it does not yet appear [apply see each other as in a mirror dark, dimly] what we shall be: but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him (just) as He is. (I John 3:2) Amen.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

New Birth, shedding sin like shedding leprosy, part 2

Ma'or Tzara'at

In the Bible, we are told how that the presence of “haunting Ghosts” are viewed as a “Ma’or Tzara’at” / “A Luminous Leprosy”. In our American culture, Halloween has become a celebration of “haunting ghosts”, those who are “demons” and “spiritual lepers”.

The demon spirits, in effect, attach themselves to the human host who has taken the blood of sacrifice and ingested it back into himself. He has either eaten or drunk the blood (Leviticus 17:12,14), and is effectively cutting Himself off from Israel (Leviticus 17:10, I Corinthians 10:19-21).

It is the blood that makes atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11), and if a sacrifice is made unto demons (Leviticus 17:7), what is happening to the blood? The blood somehow is absorbing sin, by acting as an atoning work. If that blood is not burned up, or buried by earth, it retains sin, and cries up from the ground (Genesis 4:10); or it is turned into a corrupting agent, a perpetuator of sins that it had retained.

When the spiritual blood of Christ is drunk in Communion / Thanksgiving, it forms an affirmation of Faith and a spiritual attachment between the subject and His G-D. He is saying, “L-RD make Your home in Me. Come dwell within me, as You said You would, according to Thy Holy Word.” If one should drink the blood of idols, he extends the same invitation to demons.

When the body of the man dies, the unsaved soul descends to hell, but leaves the demons behind until the APPOINTED TIME concerning their Judgment. When the body of the believer dies, his spirit is taken up by G-D’s Spirit to Heaven, and there is sweet co-habitation with the L-RD.

The Land of Israel is so sensitive, that when a man is an idolater, his house may even display a sign of his spiritual leprosy upon the walls of his house; especially if that house is recently purchased and taken over by a believer. In Leviticus 14, the priest will order the believer’s possessions out of the dwelling and shut the house up for 7 days. There will be examination, and a further removal of contaminated stones and dirt, and a new plastering, if the plague stays in the house.

If the plague returns again after this, it will then do so with "Ma'or" leprosy: that is, it will be accompanied by luminaries or “ghosts”. This signifies a defilement with demons through a blood attachment. The priest will have to offer a trespass offering that combines the essentials of the Cross with the Trespass offering… the offering up of an “Escape-Bird” (vv. 49-53), instead of an escape goat. In effect, the bird flies off, carrying the demons in the same way the pigs running off the cliff of Gadarene also carried the “Legion” (Mark 5:1-13).

Matthew 8:16-17, tells us that Jesus by His very words, had authority to cast out demons and heal sicknesses without shedding blood. This tells us, that even before Calvary, He was as already being Crucified for us before the Father and all of Creation. In the Aleitheia (or Spiritual and True Reality of Heaven), Christ is crucified from before the Foundation of the world; but in this material reality, He was physically crucified on a date we label as March 23, 30 A.D.


Historical Parallels in 1511 B.C.

The city of Jericho in 1511 B.C. experienced the invasion of the Nation of Israel from the East, through the wilderness and low mountain ranges.

Jericho had been a well watered with fresh water supplies and a thriving civilization from before the era from Moses birth, or circa 1631 B.C., through the next 120 years to 1511 B.C.'s Israelite invasion and successful conquest.

The following of the books of Moses, including Leviticus 14, suggests the Jewish practice to raze whatever structure and levels that remained to its foundations...in order that the land might be sanctified and made holy (set apart). The passages in the latter part of Leviticus 14 suggest this: such as the walls taking leprosy upon themselves (or words to this effect in the Torah).

The Hittites would have controlled the Eastern Banks of the Jordan prior to the invasion of the Hebrew peoples. One of the points of note about the Hittites, is that they ecumenized the deities and religious practices of the lands they and people they conquered.

Their influence over the Eastern banks of the Jordan would certainly be a consideration until some time after the confrontation of Kadesh, after which a truce and then a Peace Treaty was signed prior to the rise of Israeli kingship and the Assyrians in the East.

Hence, a Hittite influence upon the eastern bank of the Jordan Valley from 1630 B.C. to circa 1200 B.C., should enter into our considerations to the Conquest of Joshua through much of the times of the Judges. The strength of that influence would wax and wane...and in 1511 -1496 B.C., and to Joshua's death in 1471 B.C. (Judges 2:8), non-existant. The next date of interest, after the Hebrew settling on the Eastern Bank, is 1450 B.C., with the invasion by the "king" of Mesopotamia, Chushanrishathamin (Judges 3:8).

It is via the practice of dealing with “Ma’or Tzara’at” / “A Luminous Leprosy” that we will understand why Archaeology will have sites appear to have had hundreds of years of existence wiped clean and removed from their strata in the Land of Israel. It deals with Joshua, the Mosaic Law, and purging of leprosy via removing idolatry and uncleaness from the Land.

Hence, the reason why we should expect a gap of 1500 B.C. cities to have their Middle Bronze and Intermediate Bronze levels "vanish", and not reappear again until the low strata of the EB or 2350 B.C. level, which the Israelites would have reduced them to, and removed away the evidence.

The idea behind razing conquered cities to their foundations and removing those strata in 1511 - 1496 B.C.

For 15 years, Joshua and the nation of Israel disrupted the chronology of the promised land ( i.e., Israel) for modern Archaeology, via the practice of razing to the ground, and possibly to below ground level.

At the time Israel took possession...all lands pertaining to Israel's THEN control, would be subject and bound to this decree / view under Joshua -- even as it was under Moses.

That means, south from the East Valley of the Jordan to the Arnon river, and around the base of the Dead Sea and inclusive of the Lisan Peninsula - all cities given over to idolatry in such a way, must have been either put to the leprosy test. Those test buildings failing the leper test could then be determinate as to whether the city was or was not razed by Israel during these 15 years of Joshua conquest (1511 -1496 B.C.).



A Possible "Building" or "City's Leper Test"?

In these years, the likely scenario would be that the conquered city ready for Israelite habitation would have chosen buildings out of it...and the resident walls sprinkled with holy water of the ashes of the red heifer upon it, using hyssop and purple wool. The place would then be shut up for 7 days following this exorcism.

In Leviticus 14, we see that the priest will order the believer’s possessions out of the dwelling and shut the house up for 7 days.

After the 7 days, there will be examination by the kohenim (ritual priests), and a further removal of contaminated stones and dirt, and a new plastering may even be applied (upon discretion of the kohenim, if the plague stays in the house.

If the plague returns again after this, it will then do so with "Ma'or" leprosy: that is, it will be accompanied by luminaries or “ghosts”. The priests will declare they have seen ghosts...and the building or city will be razed.

The seeing of the “Ma’or Tzara’at” signifies a defilement with demons through a blood attachment. The priest will have to offer a trespass offering that combines the essentials of the Cross with the Trespass offering… the offering up of an “Escape-Bird” (vv. 49-53), instead of an escape goat. In effect, the bird flies off, carrying the demons in the same way the pigs running off the cliff of Gadarene were testifiedto as carrying off the many demons who inhabited an insane man and called themselves “Legion” in the NT times (Mark 5:1-13).

So, in discussing the Archaeology of this Mosaic time period...it might do well to also be willing to examine the religious zealous influences that could have had a direct impact upon the archaeology of the period.

a razing of cities to a clean leveling and removal of what we account as 850 years of history is indeed possible if :

1) There is an over staffing of help to get the job done.
--- The Hebrews could field over 600,000 men in a military capacity, ages 20-59, upon their crossing the Jordan River.


2) There is a strictness of the discipline of the participants toward following orders with zeal to micro-efficiency.
--- One needs only a thorough reading upon religious laws within the Torah, especially Vayikra / Leviticus, to be aware of this stringency for efficiency placed upon every soul of the Hebrews camp of 2.5 - 3 million.


3) There is a religious zeal hammered into and coming from the participants to please their Deity who demands micro-efficiency.
--- We have examples laid out for us through the Torah and Joshua that any lapse in micro-efficiency --even by one individual -- could result in national defeat or disaster.


4) There are religious priests involved looking for micro-evidence.
--- The Torah and the book of Joshua speaks of Kohenim accompanying the armies of Israel under Moses and Joshua.


5) They are intelligent enough in engineering or other means to grasp concepts on how to build and level a city, and utilize tools to the most effective effort while using the least amount of energy to do so.
---The generation entering the Promised Land over the Jordan river bed, had many who worked from the ages of 6 to 19, and learned the skills of their fathers, who helped build up two cities in Egypt: Pothim (not Pithom, as it is mispronounced) or Memphis, and the city later called Ra-Amesses (Bad Amosis in the Hebrew idiom) which is associated with Heliopolis / On.

Again, we see such a play on words with Ra-Amesses (Bad Amesses the person / "On" or "Avaris" for the city) and Pothim (many secret chambers/openings) instead of Pithom for the description of Heliopolis in Exodus 1, for example.

The Hebrews also renamed people, as well as cities, after their experiences with them.

Ahasuerus is the Hebrew renaming of the Persian Khshayarsha. The Hebraicization is likened to Ach-Shoresh, or "brother root".

Darius (darayavahush in the Persian, loosely meaning the "King known as 'the One'") is actually a designation for "emperor".

Over a century after the Hebrews had left, On / Heliopolis probably evolved under Osiris and Isis his queen, followed Orus their son. You better know these, perhaps, in Greek mythology as Bacchyus/Dionysius, Ceres, and Apollo.


Amenophis (II) - Osiris 1422 B.C. to 1391 B.C.
(Gk. - Bacchyus) 30 Years 10 mos. (credited as though unbroken)
(Gk. - Dionysus) w/ Queen Isis (Gk. - Ceres)

Orus 1391 B.C. to 1354 B.C. (Gk. - Apollo) 36 Years 10 months

In spite of who came later, the point is, that the same ones who were skilled as youngsters in helping their fathers in Egypt / KMT at Memphis and Heliopolis/On in 1552 B.C, were active in the armies of Israel and applied their skills which would have been honed in mental application and training by teachings over the next 40 years in preparation for entering and building the Promised Land...but removing the profane, first.


Therefore, the generation under Joshua in 1511 - 1496 B.C. could well have had and retained such requirements as the five that I list above, and successfully razed down to even the removal of micro-archaeology from the sites they chose to during / in these 15 years of conquest.

A study of ancient civilizations and the Bible, will also point to using fire and running waters as a choice removal of the profane. The idols of Jerusalem, for example, were burned and stamped or ground to powder, and cast upon the graves of those in the flash flood riverbed, where they would wash away.

Thus, a burning of idols and the Satanic to ashes represents the act of Faith by man acting in obedience to GOD, a Baptism of the Faith or the Spirit, after a sense. And then the rain washes the ashes away, as a Baptism of water...so that even the Land may be redeemed and made Holy unto GOD by fire and rain, by being reborn both the Spirit and by Water (as it were). Its redemption is best when it is cultivated with purity, so that it sprouts anew as either crops, or as a garden of grasses and trees and shrubs by those people who have wisdom to do so...and in the doing, to glorify GOD. Hence, a lesson in nature rebirth or born-again experience which Jesus related to Nicodemus can be brought to mind here as well.

In John 3:3, we are all called to be "gennethe anothen", "born from above" into the Kingdom of GOD, the "basileaian tou Theou".

As Jesus declared in John 5:24 -
"Amen, Amen, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."

New Birth, shedding sin like shedding leprosy, part 1

In John 3:5, Jesus spoke of rebirth by water and spirit.

The first -- a rebirth by means of water -- has to do with the shaving and bathing of one just cleansed from Leprosy (cf. Leviticus 14). They were as dead, but now are given new life as if born again into the Community as a new creature / creation.

The second -- a rebirth by means of the Spirit -- has to do with the action of Faith in GOD's means of Redemption, and this Faith is not what saves, it is the Redeemer --Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD -- whom we trust by Faith, through the Holy Spirit.

The first manifest expression of a rebirth in this manner is seen in the first formation of the Sanhedrin...in which Moses "spirit" increased, and this "spirit" was then imparted to his 70 helpers. In effect, the truly baptized in the Holy Spirit are seen as Eldad and Medad , who separated themselves from the other elders of the Sanhedrin, and went "Pentecostal Evangelical"; proclaiming the "good news" in the Camp among the people, prophesying, and perhaps speaking in tongues as well (Numbers 11).


The condition and religious ritual a healing of Leprosy, is found most prominently in the verses of Leviticus 14:
By Faith, GOD heals the leper of his leprosy. The leper has all the hair shaved off his body, washes in water, and shows himself to the priest.

The former leper offers sacrifice by way of a mediator with one of two birds (two turtle doves). The one bird is killed in an earthen vessel with living waters. The priest then takes the cedar wood (a type of the Cross) with scarlet and hyssop, and the living bird and dips them in the blood of the sacrificial bird. The Sacrificial bird becomes a type of Christ, and when it flies away, it represents Christ's death upon the Cross, taking away the blemishes and trespasses and sins of the world, once and for all.

After a 7 day separation, the former leper again shaves, but this time, only all the hair upon his head from the neck up. On the 8th day, he must come and stand in the gates of the LORD with two male lambs (representing the Father and the Son) and an ewe (a female lamb representing the Holy Spirit) of the first year to offer up as a complete and atoning sacrifice: trespass, sin, and burnt (guilt) offerings.

The blood of the sheep atone for all Trespasses, all Sins, all Guilt, in regard to the healed leper.

And after some more ritual, the former leper is soon to be allowed to ENTER into the Congregation of the Living, into the Communities of Israel, and be able to freely live in Zion as one from among the (living) dead...as one BORN-AGAIN by water and the Spirit, to dwell among the living.

The last Old Testament prophet, John the Baptist, once pointed to Jesus and declared: "Behold the Lamb of GOD which taketh away the sins of the world!"


In John Chapter 3, Yeshua / Jesus discusses with Nicodemus on how to believe.

The very name of Nicodemus declares him to be one of the 7 elders of Israel, and the second most powerful member of the Sanhedrin outside of the High Priesthood. He was a man of authority. The descriptive used of him by Jesus, retained for retained through the Gospel of John for all eternity, tells us that he was chief rabbi of ALL eretz Israel OUTSIDE JERUSALEM.

Nicodemus arrived to question Jesus by night for two reasons: 1) Jesus was an ordained "Semikah" rabbi under Nicodemus' jurisdiction, and he wanted to decide for himself what Jesus taught and thought privately as well as publicly. 2) The Sanhedrin Katan was out of control, and occupied by 23 wild-eyed zealots who could instill the death penalty in matters of Jewish law, and whose members (we learn from Josephus) were to likely include Sicarii Gladiator terrorists and murderers themselves. Thus, Nicodemus appeared before Jesus in the darkest of conditions, because at the time, he feared for his life in associating with Him. This in spite of being the chief Rabbi and Master Scholar of all Israel.

Yet, for all his knowledge, Nicodemus too, was unable to grasp Heavenly and spiritual things through the shadow of earthly examples.

In the case of having a proper spiritual perspective, Yeshua / Jesus uses the example of the Born-again experience of the Leper whose Leprosy is healed. We can either evoke the passage of the Levitical experience of the Torah in Leviticus 14, or of the Prophetical experience of Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1-19.

In Gematria, the Torah offering is symbolized as an Alef: a lamb as a vav, and two turtle-doves as two yods. Thus, the Jewish convert is asked to confirm that which he is already shown through the Torah and the Writings and the Prophets.

In the case of Naaman, he is asked to simply "trust" into the Salvation of the spoken "Word" and heed the "Voice", the Yeshua of G-D, who spake to Hebrew Fathers and to the nations through the Hebrew prophets.

The Jew rejoices in Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible), because he feels that he really hears the "Voice", the "Qol", the "Logos" of G-D -- through the Instruction / Torah.

The nations rejoice in the prophets of the Old Testament, because through them we hear the "Voice" of He who spake at Sinai more clearly through these men (and sometimes women like Deborah, and Hannah).

But like Naaman in 2 Kings 5, we all appear and arrive as the living dead and as lepers before GOD, UNTIL...WE BELIEVE. We enter into Baptism by faith enough to enter, and then...afterwards, through the experience of the blessing and acceptance of the LORD...afterwards, we learn to see, know, perceive, experience faith / trust into the LORD Jesus, Messiah of GOD the Father.

Without the Amens, we read:

" [And Jesus said ...]
Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of G-D.

...Can a man be born when he is old?
[,Nicodemus asked.]
Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

... Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of G-D. [Jesus replied]

...born of the flesh is flesh; and
...born of the Spirit is spirit."
(John 3:3-6)

The word "see" is "idein", the aorist infinitive active of the Greek word which means to "see... know... perceive... experience".

The adjustment of one letter "e" before this spelling -- "edein" instead of "idein" -- will place it as a pluperfect or a result of an action that happened in a "past" tense. What would it have meant to us if Jesus had said...

"Except a man be born again,
he cannot HAVE SEEN
he cannot HAVE KNOWN
he cannot HAVE PERCEIVED
he cannot HAVE EXPERIENCED
the Kingdom of G-D." ?

It does not say he cannot have briefly "tasted" or "sensed"...it says he cannot see, know, perceive, experience. What would that slight adjustment have meant to you, if it had been said in that manner or way to Nicodemus? And so we must ask ourselves...do you view your "salvation" in a past tense, instead of a living "in the present and believing now" experience?

But let us now reread the passage with the Amen in them:

Jesus (with quiet authority): "Amen, Amen -- I say unto you, Except a man be born-again, he CANNOT SEE the Kingdom of G-D."

Nicodemus (with astonishment): "How? Can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

Jesus: "Amen, Amen, I say unto you. Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot ENTER the Kingdom of G-D."
Nicodemus: "How can these things be?"


The word "Amen" in the Hebrew has the same connotation in the Hebrew as an instruction or "halicha" (religious ritual law) that Nicodemus is to "repent, trust and believe, to be more faithful and truthful, to come to the Right Hand".

Jesus is instructing the master teacher of eretz Israel. This tells us the sorry state that the Pharisaic leadership of Jerusalem and all Judea had fallen to in the First Century A.D., despite there being a presence of a Holy temple in Jerusalem.

In Isaiah 53:1, "Whom shall believe our report, and to whom is the Arm of the LORD revealed?"

In Isaiah 53:1, when one repents and trusts the report {shmua / sh'ma - hence a commanding "report" to which one is to stop, listen intently, and obey concerning, in regard to/ } about Jesus the Messiah, there is an apocalypse -- an unveiling, an uncovering -- that occurs: and one sees the ARM of the LORD manifest in some special and enlightening way.

Therefore, to see Jesus, who is this ARM {v'zeroa} of the LORD, is to see the Kingdom of GOD.

In regard to water and the Spirit, it is by the Works of moving forward by Faith (e.g., John 6:29).

The child like willingness to come forth and call out to Yeshua is that trust that Adam, as though or like a child in his new state, should have had and done in Paradise.

Thus, be a person born again, free from leprosy at the Temple, or born again and free from leprosy by dipping in the Jordan 7 times...there is clear precedent in the Law and the Prophets on this one. By the action of faith, trust, and believing into Yeshua...you can be righteousified by that which is beyond the Law, and the fulfillment of (the intent of) the Law and the Prophets.

Isaiah 53:4 "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of GOD, and afflicted."

This verse uses a certain word of interest..."nagua" / "stricken". Nagua is effectually used by Jewish rabbinical scholars as one of the secret names of King Messiah the "Hivrah" or "leper".

In Negaim, that which deals with {the afflictions of} leprosy, the Aramaic word Hivrah originally is used after the miracle of the whiteness made by Moses' yad (his hand) being placed into his bosom (which he was to exhibit before Pharoah), and the whiteness of the yad / hand leaving when he draws his hand in a second time. Later, "Hivrah" takes on the inference of a white layer (some say 'film') upon the surface of the skin.

As King Messiah, the use of the Aramaic (think Galilean) word Hivrah tells us that He identifies with and is able to heal the sick, paying for them their penalties by His act of service (as we keep reading Isaiah 53 to the end of the chapter) in pouring out His own innocent soul unto death, and taking (absorbing) all their maladies upon Himself and rendering those maladies/infirmaties as impotent.

Hence, He is so great in conquering sickness with but a word or a touch(as even the Gospels testify of Jesus' own abilities), that He is given the power to conquer death, and see His Seed (His followers / believers into Him) after Him.

In other words, as we read even from just the chapter of Isaiah 53 from Isaiah 53:4 onward, we now transition into the world to come, where it is the King Messiah who reigns over those who were healed and who believe into and follow Him, while yet King Messiah is still affecting this world as well.



I will lift up the Cup of Jesus / Yeshua

In Psalm 116:13 we read: kos-yeshu{a}oth esha

“The cup of Yeshua / Salvation, I will lift / carry.”

KOS {then a connecting horizontal} YeSHUAOTH ESHA [Alef-Shin-Alef].

The phonetic of “esha” {from the Hebrew “nasa”, to bear up, bring, exalt, carry} is the same as Alef-Shin-He, ESHaH {“woman”}.

Even as Eve, the woman { “eshah” } was taken out of Adam (Genesis 2:21-23), and of the same substance as Adam, being from the bosom of Adam…so is Yeshua here prophesied in Psalm 116:13 as being “he who is from the bosom of G-D the Father”, and the Name and means by whom mankind is to be redeemed unto G-D and “saved”.

By means of the woman, and by means of the Tree in Eden, to which the deceiving Serpent (Satan) occupied and deceived, Man fell through sin. So it is that by GOD in Christ opening His arms upon the Tree, He draws in Israel on the Right and the Nations with the Left, and atones for them upon the Cross. Where there was once rebellion and unbelief focused upon a Tree in Eden...so now, by means of a Tree, the Cross, and Faith focused toward the Obedient Christ upon the Tree, so Man can thereby be redeemed by the Obedient Word of the Father, Jesus Christ.

By being attached via the horizontal of the Cross, we see that Kos, the act of exaltation and being carried to deliverance, is accomplished in and directly to Yeshua/Jesus.

Yeshua is He whom will bear up and carry mankind. The deliverance is found in and through a coming by Esha...He who effectively "mothers" over us with the GOD's Love.

The last letter in the expression "Kos-Yeshu{a}oth Esha" is the “alef”. When the "alef" is lifted or "exalted" 45 degrees, as I have demonstrated elsewhere, it shows “Christ crucified”...He who is lifted up and exalted upon the Cross.

And how does He -- Yeshua -- come into the world of men and deliver? Through “esha / eshah”, through being carried and borne, and exalted through the {seed of the} woman, as Genesis 3:15 prophesies.



"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and {enmity} between thy seed and her seed;
He shall bruise / crushingly pound thy head,
and thou shalt bruise / hiss at his heel."
(Genesis 3:15)

The revered medieval Jewish sage, Rashi, explains: "you will bite him on his heel, and even from there, you will kill him."

According to Rashi, the hissing at the heel clearly implies the killing of Messhiach / Messiah / Christ.

The hissing and bruising at the heel, though it kills, indicates a temporary killing of the Messiah...because the crushing of the head indicates a victory by the Messiah AFTER that He had been slain, and brought to life again.

On the second go round with the Snake as the adversary (or ha Satan), we fast forward to Genesis 48:17-18, to the conquering Messiah who is now raised. How do we know this? Because Genesis 3:15 speaks of the SAME PERSON seed (singular) and not of another.

In Genesis 48:17, we see that again, the serpent waits in ambush...but strikes as an anti-Messiah / anti-Christ through the seed of Dan, but is unable to touch the rider (as Rashi also concurs). The Messiah who comes conquering is named Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, as we see revealed in the Hebrew of the next verse, verse 18.

The two prophecies (Genesis 3:15 and 48:17-18) testify of
the many hundreds of years difference, even as the rabbis state,
"if Israel is unworthy, Messhiach will come lowly, riding on an ass (Zechariah 9:9). If Israel is worthy, Messhiach will come as a mighty conqueror."

Even the rabbis must use more than one scripture to explain this. Hence, even those Jews who deny Jesus as their King, themselves affirm two comings, even if they deny this while affirming it also though the lowly and conquering parallels they themselves have given.


Only the LORD can reveal these secrets, and one must be born again...and by this, meaning something more than the OUTWARD SIGNS of undergoing that ritual of Moses or of the prophetical miracle of being cleansed from leprosy (Leviticus 13, 2 Kings 5) or of the consecration of the Levites (Numbers 8:6-7). Three OT examples of the NT call to be "born again", proving "by example" that the NT "basar" / "good news" / "gospel" in and through Yeshua is truly from HASHEM (or as some would phrase it, "truly Jewish").