I got so excited by the Moses DNA on Finding your Root's; that I forgot to discuss, The Prophet Daniel. No Daniel wasn't featured on Finding your Root's just note that Daniel is a Levite and that his former residence was once Jerusalem The City of David. Daniel's testimony begins at the Height of the Babylonian Captivity or as it is known The Babylonian Exile around 605, B.C.E .
In the case of Prophets it seems that the Outside World looking in whether through sociological or psychological how much of a Prophet's words is fact and how much of a Prophet's Word is False.
Therefore, no need to believe in any prophet's words as Truth for The Sociologist and Psychologist looks at Prophecies from the aspect of and Logical Lens. As I said The Bible is a Book of The Impossible; Reason and logic is great, but, one tends to Miss the message if that is the only way you can visualize a Prophecy; it also comes down to Human Being's testing God and trust me that is Nothing New PEOPLE have been Testing God since Eden.
So allow me to introduce a Prophecy from Daniel (in Hebrew Daniel means Vindication), afterwards I can show that The Prophecy in Daniel did come to fruition and because of History which is a Window in to a whole other World, and what came to pass well; I'd say repeated testing of God, is overkill.
So the question is what was The Prophecy in Daniel? How did it all play out? The Prophecy can be found in Daniel chapter 2. Oh by the way Daniel is full of Prophecies so I'll talk about the first one.
Throughout The Old Testament in to The New Testament a Word is spoken of in an matter-of-fact tone and that is "Covenant" A Covenant is a Promise from God but, it is also a binding agreement between to or More parties on what each party brings to the table and agrees about. There's several examples throughout the scriptures; where God establishes, "A Covenant" with PEOPLE (Adam in Hebrew means PEOPLE) The 1st Recorded Covenant was with Adam & Eve with love Dad and Mom. In this Covenant God informs them of The Redeemer Jesus who will eventually come to Save us all from Sin for with Sin comes the penalty of Death.
The 2nd Covenant is made with Noah, with God Promising to Never Destory the World with Water and placing The Rainbow as a Sign of This Promise.
The 3rd Covenant God made was with Abraham The Father of all 3 Western Monotheistic Faith's Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. This was the Covenant....
Genesis Chapter 12: 2-3
"Get out of your country,
From your kindred
and your father's house
to a land I will Show You.
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you
and make your name great; and You Shall be a Blessing.
I will bless those who bless You and Curse Those who Curse You. And In you all the families of The Earth shall be blessed.
So Abraham is who Jesus The Redeemer Came From.
So those are just 3 examples from The Bible involving God Establishing Covenant's with People.
This very same Pattern is seen in Daniel however I'd would advise people to look at This Particular Covenant from God as a Contract to The Earth.
Getting back to Daniel chapter 2 and The Statue.
The Statue is described as follows....
Head of Gold
Chest & Arms of Silver
The Waist of Brass (Bronze)
Legs of Iron
Feet of Iron and Clays
A great Rock smashes the Statue and the wind blows the Statues dust away The Rock in the Place of the statue begins to grow, and grow till It Fills The Earth Up.
The Head of Gold is The Babylonian Empire the 1st of The Great Empire's to rise.
The Chest of Arms and Silver is The Medo-Persian Empire
The Waist of Brass is Greece and of course No Surprise The Legs of Iron is Rome as in The Roman Empire but, feet of Iron and Clay represents The Decline of The Roman Empire splitting and two Powers sitting on 2 Thrones remember? There was a Western Roman Empire and a Eastern Roman Empire till both sides eventually Collapsed and became a Distant Memory during The Dark Ages.
The meaning of The Statue is that after the fall of the last Empire which was Rome People in the future will arise and try and put the Babylonian Empire back together again they will try through War & Intermarriage but, in God's Covenant, God's Contract to The Earth They Will Not Succeed in this Endeavour.
Just like The Prophecy with The Statue in Daniel those 3 Empires did rise why Daniel was alive to see The Second Empire Medo-Persia invade Babylon led by Cyrus the Great of the Persians and The Medes by King Darius.
Under King Nebuchadnezzar whom God allowed to rule.
Ruled from 605 B.C.-530 B.C. Babylon lasted 70 Week's for the Record 70 Weeks in The Bible is 70 Year's.
In turn The Medo-Persian Empire would go on to rule from 530 B.C. to 331 B.C.
Greece led by Alexander the Great and 3 of his General's like Ptolomey for example, would rule The World from 331 B.C. to 168 B.C.
Last Empire Rome they would rule 168 B.C to 476 A.D. Christianity and Islam is The Rock that fills the whole Earth and everlasting Kingdom That will never be destroyed.
Rome in the End of its dwindling power splits into two separate Powers The Western Empire followed by The Eastern Roman Empire.
The People that arises to Attempt to Put The Babylonian Empire.
Charlemagne
William the Conqueror (or better William the Bloody)
The King Henry's
The King Louis
The King Richard's
The King Edward's
The Hundred Year War and may I say this was The Biggest Try recorded.
During the Hundred Year War between England and France over The Dispute of The Throne everyone picked Their allies to aid Them. King Richard chose Spain. King Richard married his 11 year old daughter Joan to The Prince of Spain but, then something happened no one human saw coming The Black Death killed princess Joan the King's favorite child in addition to The Black Prince of Wales.
God's Contract in Daniel is that they will Try to but, Won't succeed in putting The Babylonian Empire back together again. Okay, so I have another example; this was by intermarriage. King Henry VIII and His Marriage to Queen Katherine of Aragon (wow another Spain Marriage) How many son's did she give birth to? None survive correct accept for Mary the Daughter.
God is still a God of Justice what was done to Queen Katherine was most disappearing equate it with The Sin of David with Bathsheba. That is why Anne the 2nd wife's Son's didn't survive their Births either. Plus, God promoted
Elizabeth I to sit on the Throne of ÷England.
Let's see is there anyone else who attempted this feat?
Napoleon Bonaparte a storm blew up right when He was attempting another Conquer.
and those maniac's Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini.
Hitler believed with The Tanks he could conquer Russia then came the freezing Snowstorm conquer is now over.
Even now people out there are still attempting this feat and they too will fail. That comes from My Faith in God in All Thing's.
It's not as if the religions around Christianity and Judaism weren't doing the same thing . The cultures of the Near East were constantly repurposing the beliefs of those around them and the Greeks did the same comparing every one of the major foreign gods of other cultures to their own: Amun=Baal=Zues=Jupiter, Mercury= Odin, Artemis=Bastet, Nergal=Ninurta=Ares. Again the Greeks themselves made these connections, why? Because it helps another culture to understand their own through contextualizing the cultures main tenants and providing easy to understand comparisons
Enjoyed reading your blog post! Informative. If you like, check my website at www.frisiacoasttrail.com with more on the Frisians and their history (and hiking!). Best!
As snow white as the Moon and the seven visible Planets.
This story to remember our old history goes back perhaps even thousands of years before the "Middle Ages".
Myths (and I don't mean non truths) are stories to enable people to remember and recall.
The Moon and the 7 visible planets were very important to our ancestors.
St George and the Dragon is yet another story to enable remembrance.
As with Snow White and St George they are almost universal (world wide) and not local to middle Europe.
The Brüder Grimm tales were not written by two brothers but is a compilation of local and universal, very old stories.
It's good to know there will continue to be dedicated intelligent researchers not subject to arecheological dogmatism. You are part of a proud company.
Nature spoke to archaeologist Avi Gopher ,You just have to have some humor with a archeologist named Avi Gopher.. Just can’t make that stuff up.. I dont know about stone balls the Middle East, but in the American southwest there are areas on the Colorado Plateau where thousands of stone balls from 2”-4” diameter can be seen both eroding from the sandstone formation matrix as well as large groups laying in situ,laying loose & in profusion as groups in natural drainages & scattered on top of relatively flat sandstone mesas, These spheres are now protected from collectors as they were fast depleting this natural phenomena ,As well simular sized stone spheres are found in Caverns in Mexico and Central America as well, Some of the spheres in both these surface & sub surface locations are fused together in groups of 2 or more & these spheres have been found ocassionally in archeological contest . whether they were used used as tools, charms or gaming pieces, they are a fascinating sight to see in their natural context.
A good read is genius journalist Jim Marrs (RIP) 2013 book:
Our Occulted History Do The Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens>
From ancient Sumerian clay tablets to NASA scientists. A truly fascinating read.
His book Alien Agenda is also a good read.
Both are well researched, referenced & indexed.
John Doran.
Up until last year I would have dismissed the Trojan Story all because the Illiad points to the gods interference with the war Ares/Artemis Aphrodite/Zeus for the Trojans and Hera/Athena for the Greeks.
And of course my dismissal of The Trojan Story came from my Biblical up bringing.
Recently, I've gone back to the drawing board so to speak, and have reacquainted myself with 3 Bible Books that Men decided to remove from The Scriptures; which are Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher. Because of these particular Bible Books it has forced me to reexamine stories of the world I felt it never took place such as The Trojan War.
For me where the timeline when The Trojan War took place It would have to be during The Period before The Great Flood with Noah. Genesis Chapter 6 says that the Son's of God saw the Daughters of Man (Cain's bloodline) that they were very beautiful they married these Women went in to them and begotten Great Son's and They Were Giant's in those Days warriors of aged old and Renown.
Mr. Petros in your article you pointed out the different languages as well pinning down The Nations that quite possibly match who the People of Troy were. I'm aware through The Bible that The Sea People was 3 different Nations altogether.
1. The Philistines (Palestine means Land of the Philistines)
2. Sidonians/Phoenicians
3. Tyre in Ezekiel chapter 28 God gets angry with the King of Tyre for identifying himself as the son of a sea God so promises to destroy him so bad that other Nations will be astonished by it's destruction oh and Tyre in The Bible is Turkey so perhaps this could be Troy?
I loved to touch on a little more with Enoch and Jubilees but, that will have to be sometime later it was a good discussion look forward to reading more of your Articles Mr. Petros.
Let's also not forget that in Greek literature Morpheus can also affect Zeus and put him to sleep showing just how powerful that Greeks and Romans probably held sleep as a force
This brings in to question the various Satans of the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha and Talmud. First you have Samael, the "venom of god" clearly an angel however he experiences lustful inclinations and according to some sources sires demons with Lilith, then you have Asmodeus from both the Talmud and the book of Tobit, who is usually depicted as lustful as well, though dangerous to be involved with, (the Talmud also depicts him as living in the middle of the wilderness), then you have Satan/the satan/Shaitan this being appears close to God though he constantly berates the worshippers of God, asking to torture Job and making claims against Jeremiah which Jeremiah rebukes.
Tara," a remover of obstacles", I wonder if there are any connections to Ganesha of Hindu belief. The two religions do hail from similar areas and have cross contaminated each other before
The Egyptians, Greeks and other Near Eastern civilizations tended to conflate their beliefs and gods anyway. You are correct in that it was probably for shows of power and dominance, however this was also the time of Ptolemy, so sadly Egypt had already been captured.
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Hello Mr. Jonathon,
I got so excited by the Moses DNA on Finding your Root's; that I forgot to discuss, The Prophet Daniel. No Daniel wasn't featured on Finding your Root's just note that Daniel is a Levite and that his former residence was once Jerusalem The City of David. Daniel's testimony begins at the Height of the Babylonian Captivity or as it is known The Babylonian Exile around 605, B.C.E .
In the case of Prophets it seems that the Outside World looking in whether through sociological or psychological how much of a Prophet's words is fact and how much of a Prophet's Word is False.
Therefore, no need to believe in any prophet's words as Truth for The Sociologist and Psychologist looks at Prophecies from the aspect of and Logical Lens. As I said The Bible is a Book of The Impossible; Reason and logic is great, but, one tends to Miss the message if that is the only way you can visualize a Prophecy; it also comes down to Human Being's testing God and trust me that is Nothing New PEOPLE have been Testing God since Eden.
So allow me to introduce a Prophecy from Daniel (in Hebrew Daniel means Vindication), afterwards I can show that The Prophecy in Daniel did come to fruition and because of History which is a Window in to a whole other World, and what came to pass well; I'd say repeated testing of God, is overkill.
So the question is what was The Prophecy in Daniel? How did it all play out? The Prophecy can be found in Daniel chapter 2. Oh by the way Daniel is full of Prophecies so I'll talk about the first one.
Throughout The Old Testament in to The New Testament a Word is spoken of in an matter-of-fact tone and that is "Covenant" A Covenant is a Promise from God but, it is also a binding agreement between to or More parties on what each party brings to the table and agrees about. There's several examples throughout the scriptures; where God establishes, "A Covenant" with PEOPLE (Adam in Hebrew means PEOPLE) The 1st Recorded Covenant was with Adam & Eve with love Dad and Mom. In this Covenant God informs them of The Redeemer Jesus who will eventually come to Save us all from Sin for with Sin comes the penalty of Death.
The 2nd Covenant is made with Noah, with God Promising to Never Destory the World with Water and placing The Rainbow as a Sign of This Promise.
The 3rd Covenant God made was with Abraham The Father of all 3 Western Monotheistic Faith's Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. This was the Covenant....
Genesis Chapter 12: 2-3
"Get out of your country,
From your kindred
and your father's house
to a land I will Show You.
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you
and make your name great; and You Shall be a Blessing.
I will bless those who bless You and Curse Those who Curse You. And In you all the families of The Earth shall be blessed.
So Abraham is who Jesus The Redeemer Came From.
So those are just 3 examples from The Bible involving God Establishing Covenant's with People.
This very same Pattern is seen in Daniel however I'd would advise people to look at This Particular Covenant from God as a Contract to The Earth.
Getting back to Daniel chapter 2 and The Statue.
The Statue is described as follows....
Head of Gold
Chest & Arms of Silver
The Waist of Brass (Bronze)
Legs of Iron
Feet of Iron and Clays
A great Rock smashes the Statue and the wind blows the Statues dust away The Rock in the Place of the statue begins to grow, and grow till It Fills The Earth Up.
The Head of Gold is The Babylonian Empire the 1st of The Great Empire's to rise.
The Chest of Arms and Silver is The Medo-Persian Empire
The Waist of Brass is Greece and of course No Surprise The Legs of Iron is Rome as in The Roman Empire but, feet of Iron and Clay represents The Decline of The Roman Empire splitting and two Powers sitting on 2 Thrones remember? There was a Western Roman Empire and a Eastern Roman Empire till both sides eventually Collapsed and became a Distant Memory during The Dark Ages.
The meaning of The Statue is that after the fall of the last Empire which was Rome People in the future will arise and try and put the Babylonian Empire back together again they will try through War & Intermarriage but, in God's Covenant, God's Contract to The Earth They Will Not Succeed in this Endeavour.
Just like The Prophecy with The Statue in Daniel those 3 Empires did rise why Daniel was alive to see The Second Empire Medo-Persia invade Babylon led by Cyrus the Great of the Persians and The Medes by King Darius.
Under King Nebuchadnezzar whom God allowed to rule.
Ruled from 605 B.C.-530 B.C. Babylon lasted 70 Week's for the Record 70 Weeks in The Bible is 70 Year's.
In turn The Medo-Persian Empire would go on to rule from 530 B.C. to 331 B.C.
Greece led by Alexander the Great and 3 of his General's like Ptolomey for example, would rule The World from 331 B.C. to 168 B.C.
Last Empire Rome they would rule 168 B.C to 476 A.D. Christianity and Islam is The Rock that fills the whole Earth and everlasting Kingdom That will never be destroyed.
Rome in the End of its dwindling power splits into two separate Powers The Western Empire followed by The Eastern Roman Empire.
The People that arises to Attempt to Put The Babylonian Empire.
Charlemagne
William the Conqueror (or better William the Bloody)
The King Henry's
The King Louis
The King Richard's
The King Edward's
The Hundred Year War and may I say this was The Biggest Try recorded.
During the Hundred Year War between England and France over The Dispute of The Throne everyone picked Their allies to aid Them. King Richard chose Spain. King Richard married his 11 year old daughter Joan to The Prince of Spain but, then something happened no one human saw coming The Black Death killed princess Joan the King's favorite child in addition to The Black Prince of Wales.
God's Contract in Daniel is that they will Try to but, Won't succeed in putting The Babylonian Empire back together again. Okay, so I have another example; this was by intermarriage. King Henry VIII and His Marriage to Queen Katherine of Aragon (wow another Spain Marriage) How many son's did she give birth to? None survive correct accept for Mary the Daughter.
God is still a God of Justice what was done to Queen Katherine was most disappearing equate it with The Sin of David with Bathsheba. That is why Anne the 2nd wife's Son's didn't survive their Births either. Plus, God promoted
Elizabeth I to sit on the Throne of ÷England.
Let's see is there anyone else who attempted this feat?
Napoleon Bonaparte a storm blew up right when He was attempting another Conquer.
and those maniac's Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini.
Hitler believed with The Tanks he could conquer Russia then came the freezing Snowstorm conquer is now over.
Even now people out there are still attempting this feat and they too will fail. That comes from My Faith in God in All Thing's.
It's not as if the religions around Christianity and Judaism weren't doing the same thing . The cultures of the Near East were constantly repurposing the beliefs of those around them and the Greeks did the same comparing every one of the major foreign gods of other cultures to their own: Amun=Baal=Zues=Jupiter, Mercury= Odin, Artemis=Bastet, Nergal=Ninurta=Ares. Again the Greeks themselves made these connections, why? Because it helps another culture to understand their own through contextualizing the cultures main tenants and providing easy to understand comparisons
Enjoyed reading your blog post! Informative. If you like, check my website at www.frisiacoasttrail.com with more on the Frisians and their history (and hiking!). Best!
As snow white as the Moon and the seven visible Planets.
This story to remember our old history goes back perhaps even thousands of years before the "Middle Ages".
Myths (and I don't mean non truths) are stories to enable people to remember and recall.
The Moon and the 7 visible planets were very important to our ancestors.
St George and the Dragon is yet another story to enable remembrance.
As with Snow White and St George they are almost universal (world wide) and not local to middle Europe.
The Brüder Grimm tales were not written by two brothers but is a compilation of local and universal, very old stories.
Thanks for the kind words, they are much appreciated!
Nicolas Roerich life and travels would make an awesome movie. Same for Ernest Henry Wilson.
PS: Powerful gem that fell from heaven? Thanos where art thou? (SCNR)
Hi. Yes, thank you. The link should not have gone to Constantine the Great.
It's good to know there will continue to be dedicated intelligent researchers not subject to arecheological dogmatism. You are part of a proud company.
Nature spoke to archaeologist Avi Gopher ,You just have to have some humor with a archeologist named Avi Gopher.. Just can’t make that stuff up.. I dont know about stone balls the Middle East, but in the American southwest there are areas on the Colorado Plateau where thousands of stone balls from 2”-4” diameter can be seen both eroding from the sandstone formation matrix as well as large groups laying in situ,laying loose & in profusion as groups in natural drainages & scattered on top of relatively flat sandstone mesas, These spheres are now protected from collectors as they were fast depleting this natural phenomena ,As well simular sized stone spheres are found in Caverns in Mexico and Central America as well, Some of the spheres in both these surface & sub surface locations are fused together in groups of 2 or more & these spheres have been found ocassionally in archeological contest . whether they were used used as tools, charms or gaming pieces, they are a fascinating sight to see in their natural context.
A good read is genius journalist Jim Marrs (RIP) 2013 book:
Our Occulted History Do The Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens>
From ancient Sumerian clay tablets to NASA scientists. A truly fascinating read.
His book Alien Agenda is also a good read.
Both are well researched, referenced & indexed.
John Doran.
Thanks JD! I love reading this stuff. There has to be more to us humans than what they taught us in school and that includes our origin and history.
RhNeg blood is mentioned in passing in genius journalist Jim Marrs (RIP) most interesting book:
Our Occulted History Do The Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?
His previous book, one of many, is also well worth reading
The Alien Agenda.
Both are well researched, referenced & indexed.
Enjoy,
JD.
The void, the face of the deep, the waters... it's always water
Hello Mr. Petros,
Up until last year I would have dismissed the Trojan Story all because the Illiad points to the gods interference with the war Ares/Artemis Aphrodite/Zeus for the Trojans and Hera/Athena for the Greeks.
And of course my dismissal of The Trojan Story came from my Biblical up bringing.
Recently, I've gone back to the drawing board so to speak, and have reacquainted myself with 3 Bible Books that Men decided to remove from The Scriptures; which are Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher. Because of these particular Bible Books it has forced me to reexamine stories of the world I felt it never took place such as The Trojan War.
For me where the timeline when The Trojan War took place It would have to be during The Period before The Great Flood with Noah. Genesis Chapter 6 says that the Son's of God saw the Daughters of Man (Cain's bloodline) that they were very beautiful they married these Women went in to them and begotten Great Son's and They Were Giant's in those Days warriors of aged old and Renown.
Mr. Petros in your article you pointed out the different languages as well pinning down The Nations that quite possibly match who the People of Troy were. I'm aware through The Bible that The Sea People was 3 different Nations altogether.
1. The Philistines (Palestine means Land of the Philistines)
2. Sidonians/Phoenicians
3. Tyre in Ezekiel chapter 28 God gets angry with the King of Tyre for identifying himself as the son of a sea God so promises to destroy him so bad that other Nations will be astonished by it's destruction oh and Tyre in The Bible is Turkey so perhaps this could be Troy?
I loved to touch on a little more with Enoch and Jubilees but, that will have to be sometime later it was a good discussion look forward to reading more of your Articles Mr. Petros.
Goodbye!
Wow, thank you for the explanations, i thought they were fabulous.
Let's also not forget that in Greek literature Morpheus can also affect Zeus and put him to sleep showing just how powerful that Greeks and Romans probably held sleep as a force
This brings in to question the various Satans of the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha and Talmud. First you have Samael, the "venom of god" clearly an angel however he experiences lustful inclinations and according to some sources sires demons with Lilith, then you have Asmodeus from both the Talmud and the book of Tobit, who is usually depicted as lustful as well, though dangerous to be involved with, (the Talmud also depicts him as living in the middle of the wilderness), then you have Satan/the satan/Shaitan this being appears close to God though he constantly berates the worshippers of God, asking to torture Job and making claims against Jeremiah which Jeremiah rebukes.
So the mosque minaret is equivalent to church bells and water spouts, kept more for their pleasing aesthetic rather than functionality
Tara," a remover of obstacles", I wonder if there are any connections to Ganesha of Hindu belief. The two religions do hail from similar areas and have cross contaminated each other before
The Egyptians, Greeks and other Near Eastern civilizations tended to conflate their beliefs and gods anyway. You are correct in that it was probably for shows of power and dominance, however this was also the time of Ptolemy, so sadly Egypt had already been captured.
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