Mount Sinai and the Archaeological Evidence

Ten Commandments, Mount Sinai and the Archaeological Evidence.

The 10 Commandments were given to Moses after the Exodus from Egypt and during the time in the dessert which was 40 years.

The Israelites had not yet traveled as far as the Land of Judea. When the Commandments were given they were living at the base of Mount Sinai. Skeptics of Biblical Theology often say the 10 Commandments story is just that, a Story. They say there is no evidence of them even living in the wilderness. The same people say the same about Noah's Ark, the Exodus, the Parting of the Dead Sea, The Ark of the Covenant and the Miracles that took place. As this blog progresses we will look at them all. 

    The reason for the skepticism of the 10 Commandments is because nobody had found any evidence of the the location so Christians build a Monastery on there best probable location at the time, which was in the mid 1500 AD. It's remained as a traditional site and is a UNESCO World Heritage site today. There is a real site that is mostly unknown. Let's look at into it.

Jebel El Lawz is the correct mountain. 

The Sinai Penicula is split in half. On the left half is in Egypt where the traditional site is. The right half is in Arabia where the real site is. The Dead Sea crossing (Sea of Reeds) will be covered later in a dedicated post. 

    The sun was beating down on all of the people gathered. The Prophet Moses, who had lead the Exodus out of Egypt had gone up to the top of Mount Sinai to pray and fast and reflect on the future.

    Moses has an interaction with God on the Mountain. God came down, out of the sky. The heat was so intense that the Bible says the top of the mountain burned and was turned black like charcoal.

Exodus 19.18 - Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because the LORD descended on it in fire. Rose from it like smoke from the furnace and the whole mountain shook vigorously.

Deuteronomy 4,11-12 - So you are near and stood under the mountain. Mountain fire burned to the very heavens, around dark clouds and cloud. Then the Lord spoke to you of the fire.

Photo's from Jebel el Lawz

At a distance the top just looks like shadows

When a person gets up to the to though, it is burn black like charcoal. 

A video of the whole site is included at the end of this blog post

    While Moses was on the mountain the Israelites got tired and frustrated and turned back to their Gods of Egypt. They set up a giant alter at the base. All people pooled together all of their golden objects and melted it down. They made a golden calf from the gold.  On the giant alter they chiseled images of their calves and then placed the gold idol on the alter and began to worship it. When Moses seen this he was furious because they had all sworn never to worship the Gods of Egypt again. 

Exodus 32.1 - When the people saw that Moses had not yet returned from the mountain and was gone a very long time, Aaron gathered them around and said. "Come, make us gods, which would lead us," he urged. "Who knows what's up with that Moses who brought us out of Egypt."

Exodus 32,4-5 - Ten of them took the gold, shaped and cast in the form of a calf. Then said: "This is your god, O Israel, that brought thee out of Egypt!" When Aaron saw the statue stood in front of the altar. Then he announced, "Tomorrow is the feast!"

    Here are photo's of the Alter of the Golden Caf along with it's petroglyphs.

 

Biblical Alters are always large, no Iron tools were meant to work the stone and were elevated where all can see. The Alter with the stone, wood or gold idol ontop was meant to make the person feel much smaller then the god or goddess being worshipped. 

This image shows the size compared to a person. 

    Before the Israelites came to this location they had been walking for days and weeks through harsh, terrain. They were slowly wilting away from lack of water. Moses had prayed for a miracle. God had told Moses to take his walking stick and strike a megolithic rock and water would flow out from it. Moses did and the rock split in half and water poured out  ground, splitting the rock in half but still stood upwards. It is known as the Rock of Horeb.

The rock is 200 feet from the bottom to the base of the split rock. Water gushed out and pooled at the bottom according to scripture and water erosion.

Exodus chapter 17 can be read here

 https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/moses-strikes-the-rock-at-horeb_bible/ 

At Mt. Sinai the Israelites also set up 12 pillars that was to represent the 12 Tribes of Israel. The built a cattle carrel and many other things around their temple in the wilderness. The exact dimensions were recorded in the Old Testament.

This blog post only scratches the surface.

If you would like to find out more about the site here is a video about it with video footage taken on the site. 

This is Ron Wyatt who rediscovered the site in 1984.

The discovery made headlines around the world because the site was off limit to outsiders, being a Israelite - Christian site in a strict Muslim Country where a Christian Cross is even forbidden to be on display.

Ron Wyatt snuck in across the mountain ridge and was caught on his was out. They thought he was a spy.

As always,

Thank you for reading

TMV

To watch the video on Youtube this is the link : Mt. Sinai : Untold Story of Ron Wyatt

Paganism In The Church : Part One

 When I was a child,

Easter was one of my favorite holidays. 

I was raised in a highly filtered, luke warm to cold Christian atmosphere.

The holiday celebrations are kind of strange.

 We make colored Easter eggs, and people eat ham or lamb and for some reason a magical rabbit hops around to Christian homes laying eggs like a bird or reptile.

Everyone goes to Church and is told the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The different parts of the cross and resurrection are told by using the converted pagan festivals the people already knew.

What was the rabbit, eggs and the pig originally a symbolic representative of?

~Note : I want to be crystal clear : I am not insulting any Church or person of how they celebrate Christ and the Gospel. I gave my life over to Christ as a born again a few years ago and started from scratch, with the intentions to fully immerse my understandings and seek an uncrimped, unaltered form of Christianity based on what the Scriptures teach. 

I am learning. I will get many things wrong but I intend to push forward with Scripture as the guide. Writing this blog is to record my development. Share it with those interested and have a clear record to reflect back on as my understanding grows. 

~ To follow the eternal laws for salvation as given to Moses. To verify the laws of salvation the Church proclaims before I blindly follow into my own eternity of damnation or salvation. 

~ End of note

First of all, Easter's Christian roots were planted by the Roman Catholic Church system. Easter spread all around the world by Catholic Missionaries. 

After Martin Luther and the Protestant Referendum split from the Catholic System over their differences, over time Easter and Catholic holidays crept back into the Protestant Church.

See not only did the Roman Church system Christianize Easter when they declared Christianity their empires main religion but before Christ Rome was already celebrating Easter. So too was the whole ancient world from 5000 years before Christ.

Biblical prophecies in the Old Testament known as the five books of Moses, written on  

Mt. Sinai and in the New Testament written after the death of Christ, warns of wolves in sheep clothing who will corrupt and pervert the scriptures.

Those who say they are Monotheistic believers of the one Divine Creator but are from the synagogue / Temple / Church of Satan.

Who like to wear flashy garbs to be seen and admired and who worship the fallen one Lucifer and his minions of Angels who were banished from Heaven. 

Who were also once shining light.

They will lie, deceive, manipulate, invert, distort and teach people to worship Lucifer as God and the worship the Angels of darkness as if they were still of light. 

It was standard practice for the Church to convert Pagan religious pratices by building Churches on top of Pagan Holy sites and taking the Pagans already established rituals and converting them into Christian rituals and stories.

So does that make it still a Pagan celebration, Christian or a mix of both?

Scripture is clear that we are not to partake in paganism. This is why.  

Pagan Religion that can be traced all the way back to the Babylonian, Sumer

Goddess Ishtar : Ish - meaning East and Tar meaning Star 

East Star or as we say in the English vocabulary "Easter"

From the Babylon's Ishtar it's rituals moved through trade routes and into new cultures, stamping versions where it traveled but with new parts added and removed.

This short video tells the moderated version from Greece's influence to modern times.  

 

If we look back at the original Sumerian traditions of Ishtar we also find that there were celebrations of  fertility. Rejuvenation of mother earth marked by the spring equinox and marked around the world as the cosmic egg that birth the universe.

The tradition was celebrated by the full moon which also represents a woman's fertility cycle. 

To understand what is going on here we need to look back to the banishment of Lucifer from Heaven and his 200 fallen angels. They rebelled in heaven because Lucifer wanted to be  worshiped like God and wanted to be Gods so were given temporary dominion over earth and man given free will. Lucifer and the fallen ones setup counterfeit, cheap imitations versions of heaven on earth with a Chief Deity at the top.

The Catholic System is a version of the heavenly system but with a counterfeit god and rituals. 

Heaven has many different lifeforms created by God but only one is to be worshiped as God. See Lucifer is very intelligent. God only wants clean, holy spirits in the Kingdom. 

We read about and hear of humans who have interactions with Angels of light on earth, they have been sent on behalf of the Creator. They were created by the Creator to Minister and do the will of the Creator. There are many different types of life forms in the heavens that were created. Scripture is very clear on this. 

There is only ONE creator. 

We are here  with free will. God wants us all to be in heaven, it's up to us to though to get there. 

In the Book of Life in Heaven the past, the present and the future is written.

Within the Book of Life are the Holy scriptures.

In the Holy scriptures the past, present and future are written also. In the prophecies it is said that all will be revealed so that when these things come to pass, you will know that this is the way and the truth to the light. 

The prophecies for the coming life of Jesus, who is God born into the flesh was laid out very specifically with over 300 exact points since the beginning of time and written on earth by Moses 1500 years prior to his birth.

Lucifer being God's Chief in Heaven is very well aware of the contents in the Book of Life. 

He has set up counterfeit fof prophecy and to the word of God.

You must understand that in now way am I insulting any denomination Christianity or Catholic people because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ but "traditions" set by Churches have over ruled the Lords Commandments and have polluted the Church.

Insted of Ministering about repentance and the word or God, we've become accustom to Ministering the lies from Lucifer as if they were the truth of the almighty. 

The whole reason Martin Luther lead the reformation and separation from Rome was  

because of traditions and doctrines that do NOT fit with Scripture.  

I get it too though, the easter eggs and bunny and everything makes it fun for children to learn about the Bible. All I'm asking is does it line up with Scripture?

If you want to dig deeper into Easter, this Twitter thread from the marked page down explains more about Christs sacrifice on the cross for out Salvation.

https://twitter.com/TMV_intel/status/1170442197092700161?s=20&t=ipLlhH0TEAzhyqFDFCuScQ

Is society to detached from nature?

 Is society to detached from nature?

Wildlife Series : Moose

From as early as I can recall I always felt at one with nature. My brother and I used to trench thru swamps, mud, creeks and forests.

I was living in a small community on the eastern outskirts of Algonquin Park. It's here my perception of nature was molded.

Nature is delicate and should be respected, nurtured and protected.

Preserving wildlife for the next generations to come should remain a priority by us all.

Algonquin is a  huge expanse of wilderness. Covering 7,725 square kilometers or 4,800 square miles of rugged Canadian Shield country. 

If the park was mapped out by following it's natural tree lines and river ways, it could just about double in size.

The Muskoka's have  every kind of outdoor experience that one can imagine but also is a heaven for the many animal, insects and fish species.

My family and I moved there when I was in my early teenage years. 

We went from living in an average rural town on the ouskirts of the Canadian Capital, Ottawa for  a decade prior to moving there.

I left home when I was 15/16 years old to move back to the City of Ottawa but,  went back for some time as a young man. 

This is when I really noticed natures beauty and magestic wilderness.

The people are kind and warm to their neighbours, everyone is willing to help one another when  needed with things like gathering the winters firewood.

Every year the town put on a long weekend Regatta. The whole main street is closed down. Theres live bands, arm wresting, cardboard boat races, canoe races, tug of war over mud pits, lots of water games and ending the weekend with a fireworks show. 

It's a special place.

The park is a protected wildlife sanctuary but thrives from tourists and nature enthusiast who have access to parts of the park.

You can canoe, kayak, fish, camp, hike, visit sacred and protected Indigenious sites. There are no gas powered boats, atv or dirt bikes allowed past the gates into the park

 

 

 

When I went back after living for many years in the City 

I was old enough to drive and explores the will via ATV, boat, snowmobile and truck.

On a few occasions I drove miles back into the wild at dawn. 

One of these occasions I was overlooking a swamp from an old logging road. I was perced  20 meters above when a family of moose broke thru the tree line. 3 moose in total. An enormous male Buck, Female and a Fawn.

I'm in no way an expert on Nature, animal species and conservation but this Nature series will look at those different aspects.

This series is simply driven from my respect for our planet. 

Here is a photo for size comparison. When you see a moose in real life and see just how large and intimidating they stand, you will instantly draw respect for the animal.

 

Ones own  heart races and is truely a sight to behold. 

This is  the episode that is forged in my mind, 

stitched in my heart and what connected my spirit to the divinety of our planet.

Unfortunately, the Moose are over hunted and their territories over developed in some areas. 

 

My viewpoints are geared towards the conservation side of outdoors rather than the destruction side such as hunting, over development and over fishing around the world.

 

Moose are the largest members of the deer family, standing six feet (1.8 meters) tall from hoof to shoulder, and weighing in at more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). Each of their light to dark brown hairs is hollow, and the air trapped inside provides insulation. A flap of skin called a dewlap hangs from the throat. Males are distinguished from females by their antlers, which grow up to six feet across.

Moose are found in the northern regions of the United States, from Maine to Washington, throughout Canada, and into Alaska. Due to their large size and insulating fur, moose are limited to cold climates. Forested areas with streams and ponds are ideal moose habitat.

Moose are herbivores. The word “moose” is an Algonquin Indigenous term meaning “eater of twigs.” Moose are so tall that they have difficulty bending down to eat grasses, so they prefer to feed on leaves, bark, and twigs from trees and shrubs. Their favorite foods come from native willow, aspen, and balsam fir trees. They also munch on aquatic plants from streams and ponds.

Male moose, called bulls, begin to grow antlers in springtime to prepare for the autumn mating season. Large, mature bulls with well-developed antlers usually get to mate with the female moose, called cows. When bulls are competing for the same cow, they may use their antlers to fight off their opponents. After the mating season, bulls drop their antlers. They regrow them again in the spring

They are solitary animals, except when it comes to mating. During mating season, some dominant male moose in Alaska will herd a group of females together to create a “harem herd.” Other males will fight the leader of the herd for the right to mate with the females.

Newborn calves can stand up the first day, and swim within a couple of weeks. They are weaned at about six months, but remain with their mother for one year until she drives them off shortly before her next calf is born. Each spring and summer, bull moose grow antlers that fall off during winter.

A few facts about Moose

1. Male moose grow a set of antlers each year during the spring and summer. By fall, antlers can span six feet from tip to tip.

2. Though females lack antlers, they aggressively protect their babies with powerful kicks that can break bones or even kill predators.

3. Moose are browsers, feeding on the leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs, primarily willow, birch, and poplar.

4. Moose are excellent swimmers, able to hold their breath underwater for 30 seconds.

5. Despite their large size, moose can run at over 35 miles per hour.