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The Wheels of the Cherubim


Welcome everyone to the August 2026 Blog folks! We are blessed in a current class by Rev. Jon Nessle and Ren Manetti on the Book of James, where Jon has recently taught on the First Fruits of a Restored Symmetry of the Creator’s Spiritual Cosmology. The incalculable value of this view, is a central concept in light of the recent blog study on the Cherubim Constellations and the Way of the Tree of Life. [see Nov. 2017 Blog] Their Bible perspectives on a Angelic Spiritual Symmetry in the 1st Heaven & Earth opens new vistas in reviewing Joseph’s dreams of Israel’s 12 tribes tied to the 12 Ecliptic Signs in a Restored Symmetry of Angelic Realms as God renewed Israel’s vitality, in the spiritual Body of Christ, [Eph. 2:11ff]. The Tabernacle’s eastern door is the Way, the truth, and the life, of John 14:6, in Jesus Christ as light of the world, door of the sheep, and the Good Shepherd in [Jn.10], the true way that leads unto life.

We find important keys to this true way in Joseph’s dreams of Gen. 37, below:

Gen. 37:3-11 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. 5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. 6 So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8 And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. 9 Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.” 10 So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?” 11 And his brothers envied him, but his father kept [8104-Shamar]#1 the matter in mind.

A key to understanding this part of Genesis 37 is found as we take notice of details in the record, specifically the obeisance made by the sun, moon, and the eleven stars to Joseph’s sign of Taurus the Bull. The first dream makes no reference to Joseph’s parent’s who are represented as the Sun and Moon in the second dream. Their praise of Joseph’s star is added to that of the eleven stars of his brothers. The meaning of the Hebrew word (*H7812 shachah) to bow down, is to depress, prostrate oneself (in homage to royalty or God), to bow oneself down, to humbly beseech, worship or to do obeisance.#2  This word is used as indicated in verses 7, 9 & 10 above, in reference not only to the sheaves of the field, but also to the sun, moon and eleven stars, with Joseph being the twelfth. Here we find an  image of the Hebrew zodiac foreshadowing the prophecy of Jacob over his twelve sons in Genesis 49, as an image of the Sidereal zodiac, seen in both the sheaves (earthly seed [#2233; zera-Gen. 13:15-17] and stars (heavenly seed; Gen. 15:4-6), each relating to prophecies of innumerable seed tied to Israel. Here we can see a record where the witness of the Stars aligns with the witness of Scripture via God’s revelation to Joseph, to preserve the line of the promised seed of Israel, that the enemy attempts to wipe out in the famine that took Jacob to Egypt. We also find the two seeds mirrored in horizontal and vertical fish of the Pisces constellation in the Celestial Gospel.

Joseph’s first dream had a terrestrial interpretation which was seen in [Gen. 45: 8 & 26], where the same Hebrew word in v. 8, for “dominion” (4910–maschal),#3 has an initial relevance to Joseph’s political position as “ruler through all the land of Egypt.” This was fulfilled when Jacob brought his family to Egypt via God’s direction [Gen. 46:3-4], when Joseph was Grand Vizier.

The second dream however, being celestial in nature, shows a clear distinction from the first dream, indicating that there’s an added aspect of these signs of the ecliptic that we, as students of Biblical Astronomy, must be aware of. The usage of (*H7812) here in Genesis 37, in relation to Joseph’s sign of Taurus, is distinctly different than in Genesis 49:8, where it states regarding Judah that: “thy Father’s children shall bow down (*H7812) before thee.”#4 Clearly, even though the same Hebrew word is used for the homage that Jacob’s children would give to both Judah and Joseph, it cannot mean for the same reason.

The homage due Judah in Genesis 49 has a distinct celestial significance since the Messiah’s ancestral roots came from this tribe [Rev. 5:5], as opposed to Joseph, who embodies the sign Taurus the Bull with its two horns as symbols of Joseph’s sons in the tribes Ephraim and Manessah. [Deut. 33:16-17]

 As Patriarchal Astronomy, saw the poles, ecliptic and Equator all tied to the direction of earth’s axis, shows aspects of precession as part of the Creator’s plan to assess the geocentric view of Earth’s center position in Creation. The earth, is not a literal center of the Universe, but as the focus of the light shed by the other celestial bodies from a Godly view [Gen. 1:14-16], it is the figurative focal point of God’s Creation as man’s garden home. This aspect of the idea of the Sun’s dual year, as the Solar year depicts a heliocentric, or sun–centered solar system, noting it’s Daily/annual glow from earth’s view, as the central light of heaven, versus its cycle of precession. The key point of precession is seen, not only in the 2160 year-ages ruled by the Sun’s residence in each of the 12 signs of the zodiac, but also regarding the Celestial Gospel message of each zodiacal sign linked to the return of the Promised seed-Jesus Christ.

The graphic below from Harmonica Macrocosmica [A. Cellarius, Amsterdam 1660] depicts a Sun centered Copernican view of the cosmos. #4a

harmonica macrocosmica

In a view of the Restored Symmetry of the Creator’s Spiritual Cosmology as it relates to this context, a grasp of the relation between this angelic order in the first Heaven and Earth, is based on God’s perfect foreknowledge of Lucifer’s revolt, and His plan for Man’s Creation included the redemption of Mankind superceding Satan and his fallen angels, exemplified in the Perfect man Jesus Christ, who inherited authority over the 2/3rds of the Angels that retained their holiness, along with the redeemed of Israel with the Spiritual Body of Christ. We see a summary of an intact Angelic Godly order in Ezekiel. 1.

[Ezek. 1:5-6] 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 

In Ezekiel’s vision the Cherubim each had four faces & four wings. As angels work between God and men, we see the traits of the Cherubim, first with four wings and faces at the four corners of heaven. They also have four hands of a man under each of their wings, showing a 4-fold symmetry of service to God in heaven for men on Earth.

Figure 3. The Four Faces, Wings and Hands of the Cherubim

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We can see another element of dominion in these four Cherubim faces. In the Man-created in God’s image, with earthly dominion, the Lion–king is over the wild animal kingdom. With the Bull as the king of domesticated animals, the Eagle is the king of the fowl of the air, [Gen. 1:26-28]. In the graphic above, the Cherubim embody 4 cornerstone signs of the Hebrew Mazzaroth at the 4 Compass points and Cardinal Directions. As the Cherubim’s 4 faces embody four royal stars/constellations on the Sun’s ecliptic path, so 4 Cherubim are ever tied to four faces of Man/Aquarius, the Bull/Taurus, the Lion-king/Leo and the Eagle/Aquila.

Exodus 36:35-36 shows details of the colors seen in the Tabernacle’s veil of the Cherubim, as we consider some of this color symbolism in the services of the Tabernacle and Temple.

Ex. 36:35-36 And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with Cherubims made he it of cunning work. And he made there-unto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

The veil hung from four pillars, embodied the terrestrial number, in earth’s orientation to the four Cardinal Directions and points of the compass. This symbolic number four is prominent in the imagery above, not only in the four pillars holding the Tabernacle’s veil, but also in the Tabernacle’s four colors  shown in the veil. In the four colors Blue represents peace, in God’s presence, seen in the Son of God as the Prince of Peace. Purple represents royalty, and is seen in Christ the King of Kings. Scarlet or Red represents blood, found in the Man Jesus Christ, the high priest offering the perfect sacrifice and sin offering of his own life for our redemption. The linen was White, a symbol of the purity and righteousness of God’s perfect Servant. So, the Tabernacle’s four colors collectively embody the four-fold ministry of Christ as the Chief cornerstone in the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, show his dominion over all Creation. As we find, the four pillars link to the four Cardinal Directions, known as the equinox & Solstices on the ecliptic and Equator as these four-corners of the heavens, square the circle of the ecliptic.

These four cardinal points correspond to the four tribes, zodiacal signs and Tabernacle colors as follows:

Eagle/Aquila [replacing Scorpius below, a substitute North]
North/Scorpion/Scorpius/Dan/Red (omitted in Num. 24, Ps. 75:3ff)
East/Lion/Leo/Judah/Purple. (Numbers 24:9)
South/Man/Aquarius/Reuben/Blue. (Numbers 24:7)
West/Bull/Taurus/Ephraim & Manasseh/White(Numbers 24:8)

As symbolic references to the four quarters of heaven, the 4 unified faces of these living creatures represent a composite of this celestial narrative, witnessing to the return of the promised redeemer, and his judgment on the assembly of the wicked.

The truths of Jesus as our Shepherd are vividly seen in 3 Psalms 22, 23 and 24, showing the sufferings and glory of the Lord. As Prophet, the Good Shepherd who gave his life not only for the sheep, but for the safe-keeping of all people who come unto him [John 10:11]. As the High Priest and the Great Shepherd, he is the first, last and only door, for the sheep, the Alpha and Omega, which provides the way of access through his blood and resurrection [Heb. 13:20] unto life, into the true spiritual fellowship with our Heavenly Father. As the King and Chief Shepherd, his return exhibits his final glory, coming as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, [I Pet. 5:4, Rev. 19:16].

Thus, like the eastern shepherd, Jesus Christ embodies Jehovah-Nissi: the redemptive name for God protecting His people, [Ps. 23:1]. The Door, or gate gives access to the holiest of all was covered by a veil in both the Temple and the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle veil, hung on four pillars, separated the holy of the holies, the central point of God’s presence among His people, from the holy place. Woven into the fabric of this linen veil, the Cherubim were depicted, as a special class of angels who are prominent in God’s throne-room. They are uniquely seen with four faces corresponding to “four royal signs” of the zodiac, ruling four-corners of celestial pillars in heaven, also seen in the four constellation signs of Num. 24:4-9.

This Celestial depiction of the circuit and Way that God set before the Lord Jesus Christ is found in the 19th Psalm.

Ps. 19:1-3 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament[a] [7540-Gen. 1:6-8] shows [b]His handiwork.#5 2 Day unto day utters speech, [#562-Num. 24:4] And night unto night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard–[#8065].

Ps. 19:4-6.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bride-groom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

In Fig. 4 below we find a rendition of the Son/Sun of God running his course consisting of the four Cherubim at the Cardinal points of the Sun’s course on the Ecliptic, [Mal. 4:2-3].

Figure 4. The Four Celestial Signs at the four Compass points; Man, Eagle, Bull and Lion, with Christ in the center-vesica running his course.

The Four Cardinal Points

Ps. 19:7-8 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting [7725] the soul: [5315] the testimony [5715] of the Lord is sure, [539] making wise [2449] the simple.
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: [3820]#6 the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Ps. 19:7-8 depicts a pairing of the Heart and Soul, in the trials of our race, as we recover ourselves so we confess our sins to repent and return in fellowship, with God in response to the daily challenges we face.

Ps. 19:14 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, [3820]#7 be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, [6697] and my redeemer.

The pairing of Heart and Strength [Ps. 18:1-2] shows The Lord as our Rock-  one of the 7 Genesis titles of Christ in the OT. As we embody the Lord’s Strength there is nothing we cannot overcome in our race.

Thus, the placement of all four of the royal stars in the cornerstone signs is consistent with the symbolism of emotional, spiritual, mental and physical aspects of all living souls of believers.

Figure 5. Aquila the Eagle above the Serpent-Serpens.#8

Antique constellation map of Sagitta, Aquila and Delphinus. Celestial star chart illustration published in London, 1893. Antique constellation map of Sagitta, Aquila and Delphinus. Celestial star chart illustration published in London, 1893. aquila constellation stock illustrations

Ezekiel’s vision at the river Chebar tells of the living creatures, specifically their four faces, matching the signs at the four Cardinal Directions of the ecliptic. As noted regarding the North, it was omitted for various reasons, the main likely due to the idolatry of Dan’s tribe (Judges 18:30-31). Manasseh was added to replace Dan to maintain 12 tribes, but omitting Dan was not only due to their idolatry, but also because this tribe led the other ten northern tribes into idolatry. This is why in the Cherubim’s four faces, the Eagle–Aquila was switched as the serpent’s natural enemy. We find in the Fig. 5 graphic above with the decan Aquila pictured directly over the serpent-Serpens’ tail @ the lower right, held by the man–Ophiuchus.

Up North we see the Eagle decan face of Aquila [Ezek. 1:10], replacing his born enemy, Dan’s Serpent/Scorpion, the only triple sign man/Ophiuchus, wrestling a Serpent-Serpens, stamping out-Antares‘ Starlight, at the scorpion’s core. The vision of Ezekiel is recorded below.

This analysis of the Four Royal Stars is not only at the basis of the Celestial Gospel, but also in light of the First and Great Commandment in Mark 12:28-34, as we have just seen in Ps. 19.

28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first of all commandments? 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, it namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but He: 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

For Mankind to be unified in his Love for His God, he must give ALL his
Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength, in service. The sooner we realize the four fold unity of man, in service the sooner we’ll reap the full benefits of a unified life in our humble service to God. All who answer God’s Call, to serve with our All, in these 4 categories elevate ourselves into a maximum loading zone of God’s Miracle everlasting Abundance.

Several ancient cultures designated four bright stars in the zodiac as the “four corners of the earth” or the “four royal stars.” At the time the constellations were drawn by Shem, these four stars were near the sun’s location in the sky on the 1st day of autumn, winter, spring & summer, regarded as four Cardinal Points of the heavens.

These four stars were well known at the four corners of the ecliptic, the first was a bright red star, Antares that anciently marked the autumnal equinox, in the heart of Scorpius, as the sun appeared the first day of autumn. 

The next bright star Fomalhaut, marked winter, followed by Aldebaran, a very bright red star set 180.0° opposite on the ecliptic from Antares, marked the Spring Equinox, as Antares marked the Autumn. Finally, the bright star Regulus, located almost exactly on the ecliptic, marked Summer. Regulus, was “the Prince,” and traditional leader of these four royal stars. #9 [n]

We find each of the four royal stars in a singular sign of the Mazzaroth’s 12 signs on the ecliptic. Antares in Fig. 5a, in the heart of the Scorpion (Scorpius). In Aquarius–Fomalhaut the Southern Fish–eye seen at the end–stream of the waters poured out by Aquarius, in Fig. 6a below. We find Aldebaran–the Bull’s-eye in (Taurus–reem) in Fig. 8 below. Lastly, Regulus is seen in the Lion’s heart of (Leo), in Fig. 7 below, the king of the royal stars. These four are the corner-stone constellations not only forming the square base of the Great Pyramid, with 4 tribes/apostles mirrored skyward as the chief corners of the ecliptic’s Great Square, also forms a basis of the idea of ‘squaring the circle,’ or ‘cubing the sphere’ in geometry. These truths are added handles to grasp the Gospel in the Stars.

Gen. 3:22-24 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24
So He drove out the man; and He placed Cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

As Rev. Nessle taught Guarding the Way to the Tree of life was essential in preventing the Serpent from gaining access to this tree which would have corrupted Adam & Eve in their fallen state, and cancelled God’s plan for human salvation.

This first Cherubim mention in Scripture sets a precedent for the other four Cherubim who embody the four corners of the ecliptic as the four royal stars on Way holding the Celestial Gospel in the constellations of the ecliptic. As the Lord placed the Cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, with a flaming sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the Tree of life. This is the 1st usage of “Cherubim” Cherub [#3742]-winged order of angel who stood over the Mercy seat in the holiest of all. [Ex. 37:7-9] They are said to rank below the Seraphim, which likely accounts for the Seraphim having six wings and the Cherubs having four. [Rev. 4:6-8]#10

Adam was charged to dress [5647] & keep [8104-shamar]#11 guard as a watch-man, to keep safe, preserve, protect [1Sam. 26:15-16, Job 2:6 Satan is warned not to harm Job’s life] Abner was worthy of death as he did not keep his Lord the king, the Lord’s anointed [#4899], we must keep our mouth’s [Prov. 13:3]. Gen. 18:19, 28:15-20 keep the Lord’s way, [Jacob’s ladder] 37:11 Jacob kept Joseph’s dream narrative, Deut. 4:9 keep our Souls in God’s Word. Ps. 16:1, 25:20, Josh. 6:18 abstain from idols, Ps. 17:4 avoid the destroyer’s paths. Keep the Covenant [Gen. 17:9] God is keeper of Israel, [Ps. 121:4, Ex. 13:18, 21-22, Num. 22:23, 31-32, Deut. 6:7, 10:12, 26:17-19, Ps. 91:11, 103:7, Isa. 55:8-9,]

Ex. 25:17-22
17 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it in one piece with the Mercy Seat. 20 And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the Mercy Seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the Mercy Seat. 21 You shall put the Mercy Seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. 22 And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the Mercy Seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

These Cherubim not only inhabit The Throne-room of the Almighty, along with the Holy of the Holies where the Heavenly Father inhabits the area between the Cherubim above the Mercy Seat. But their unique link in God’s
presence is tied to the wheels appearing with the Personal presence of the Almighty on the Earth. The Vision of the Ancient of Days recorded in Dan. 7:9–10, relates to this;

9 “I watched till thrones were [d]put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire; 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The [e]court was seated, And the books were opened.

Here we find the Throne of the Almighty–Ancient of Days was fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;

2Chron. 5:7-8 7 Then the priests brought in the Ark of the Covenant of the
Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the [a] Temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.  8 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed [3680] the ark and its poles. [3680–kacah-to cover, clothe, conceal, hide, keep secret, as the pillar of cloud covered the Tabernacle, Num. 9:16, Js. 5:14-20, covering or hiding sins is forgiveness, Ps. 32:1, 85:2, 103:3, 11-12, cp. Prov. 17:9, 28:13, Neh. 4:5, see #3722-Kaphar].#12

Note the similarity and repetitions between 2 Sam. 22 and Ps. 18:10-19 below;

2Sam. 22:7-20 7 In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears. 8 “Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of [c]heaven quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry. 9 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down with darkness [6205] under His feet. 11 He rode upon a cherub,[3742] and flew; And He [d]was seen upon the wings of the wind.[7307] 12 He made darkness[2822] canopies around Him, Dark waters and thick clouds [5645] of the skies. 13 From the brightness before Him Coals of fire were kindled. 14“The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice. 15 He sent out arrows and scattered them; Lightning bolts, and He vanquished them. 16 Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world [8398] were uncovered, At the rebuke of the Lord, At the blast of the breath[7307] of His nostrils. 17 “He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters. 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who
hated me; For they were too strong for me. 19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,[343] But the Lord was my support. 20 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me. [Job 22:11-17]

These 2 sections of Scripture in 2 Samuel & Ps. 18 are nearly identical in their witness of God who rides on cherubs or chariots they embody, vanquishing His foes. This got me thinking about the wheels linked to the Cherubim and their movement.

Ps. 18:9-19 9 He bowed the heavens [8064] also, and came down with darkness
[6205] under His feet. 10 And He rode[7392] upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind.[7307] 11 He made darkness[2822] His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies. [7834]
12 From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones &
coals of fire. 13 The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice, [d]Hailstones & coals of fire. 14 He sent out His arrows & scattered
[e] the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them. 15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world [8398] were uncovered at Your rebuke, O Lord, At the blast of the breath [7307] of Your nostrils. 16 He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me, For they were too strong for me. 18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my support. 19 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.

Ps. 99:1 The Lord reigns; Let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the cherubim; Let the earth be [a]moved! 2 The Lord is great in Zion, And He is high above all the peoples. 3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name
[b] He is holy.

Our God is the only One Who dwells Between the Cherubim as seen with the original Ark of the Covenant resting directly under the center of the Cherub’s outstreched wings, God reigns above the place for atonement between the Cherubim unified in the holiest of all, on the Mercy Seat.

Ex. 37:6-9 6 He also made the Mercy Seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width. 7 He made two cherubim of beaten gold; he made them of one piece at the two ends of the Mercy Seat:[3727-kapporeth– ark lid, from 3725–kippur, atonement]#13 8 one cherub at one end on this side, and the other cherub at the other end on that side. He made the cherubim at the two ends of one piece with the Mercy Seat.
9 The Cherubim spread out their wings above, and covered the Mercy Seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

In this same sense we can grasp the Covering Cherub of Ezek. 28:13-16. Every precious stone [9] was his covering, [4540] the workmanship of his tabrets [8596] & thy pipes [5345] pierce a hole for sound was prepared [3559–kuwn] in thee in the day he was created. The repetition in “midst of Stones of Fire” in v. 14-16 shows fiery gemstones of each jewel reflecting the light and sound of their angelic choral units in worship of the Almighty, Lucifer was the Chorus-master. This parallels a repetition of “the day thou wast created” in vs. 13-15, mirrors the “midst of stones of fire” perhaps revealing the creation of his covering with his own inception, and other things. Curiously, “thy precious stones“ were his covering, as he was the cherub that covered–maybe showing   a symbiotic relationship with his bejewelled covering of fiery gemstones, of the chorus master with his orchestra of angelic choral units. [Job 38:7]

 Ezekiel 1 is where we find a treasure of truth on the Cherubim. In v. 4 we read; 4 Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. 6 Each one had four faces,
and each one had four wings. 7 Their [c]legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled like color of burnished bronze. 8 The hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings. 9 Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And each one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning. 14And
the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a lightning flash.

The closest thing to this heavenly image of lightning flashes mingled with fire, I can recall is a recent eruption of a volcano, since its is the only natural image I can compare it to. On Sunday, Jan. 12th the Taal volcano roared to life, and this eruption on the volcanic island sent “steaming, ash and rock up 6 to 9 miles into the sky.” On Monday hot lava spewed from the Philippine volcano after it’s eruption of ash, steam and Lightning caused villagers to flee, closing down Manila’s International airport. #14

The image of the Cherubim are first linked to God’s presence in his Heavenly throne-room in 2 Sam. 22:11, Ps. 18:10 where He rode on the Cherub and flew on the wings of the wind. As we have already noted the celestial link between the Cherubim keeping the Way of the Tree of life, and its association with the other four Cherubim at the four corners of the Ecliptic-its enlightening to see the image below of the wheels of the Precession of the Poles, where 2 wheels of the Ecliptic and the Celestial Equator overlap to depict the Precession of the Northern Pole star, or the fall of the Dragon [Rev. 12:1-13, Isa. 14:12-22] from his first estate. This wheel of the Ecliptic and Equator certainly fits the description in Ezek. 1:15-17 below of a wheel upon the Earth. In this case we see the one Wheel upon the Earth, accurately since 2 Earthly poles in their Geographic and Magnetic poles on Earth’s surface reflect the poles of the Ecliptic and the Equator, fill in an image of God’s celestial structure of stars
in the sky [Gen. 1:14-17].

Figure 6. The Hebrew “wheel within a wheel” from Ezekiel’s vision. #15

As symbolic references to the four quarters of heaven, the 4 unified faces of these living creatures [Rev. 4:6] represent a composite of the celestial narrative, witnessing to the return of the promised redeemer, and his judgment on the assembly of the wicked.

This correlation between the four Cardinal Directions of the horizon seems an obvious celestial reference, endorsed by the celestial wheels within wheels tied to the Cherubim, [Ezek. 1:16, 20-22, 10:1-22]. These wheels relate to the celestial structure of the ecliptic and the Equator, as one wheel is seen within the other, with their crossover points as the equinoxes. One Hebrew word for “wheel” in  Ezekiel, [10:2, 10] is galgal [*H1534], #16 a variant of “Gilgal“ [*H1536], #17 the “Hill of God,” [I Sam. 10:5] where Joshua set up an altar of twelve stones [Josh. 4], one for each of the 12 tribes of Israel. The word galgal is also a root of our word “Galaxy,” showing a celestial context of the wheels into modern days. Similar to the stellar reference of the 12 precious stones of the High Priest’s breastplate, as symbols of the twelve signs of the zodiac, Joshua’s altar marked their entry into the promised land, first deeded to Abraham [Gen. 13:14-15]. As God marked the end of the Israel’s wilderness sufferings even as He marked their exit from Egypt, with a miracle of parting of the waters, both of the Red Sea and of the Jordan River. He also marked the start of Israel’s reign of kings both in the anointing of Saul, with the first Passover in the Promised Land at Gilgal. Josh 5:9-10 has a figurative portrait of this initial Passover, as these “wheels of God’s justice” rolled over the heathen that stood in Israel’s way. 

The position of the Ecliptic around the Earth in Ezek. 1:15 below, 

Figure 7. Earth’s Axis related to the Ecliptic and Equator in Precession

precession of the poles

The Cherubim are a key link to God’s Throne-room in Ezek. 1:15-28;

Ezek. 1:15 15 Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the
earth beside each living creature with its four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went. 18 As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them. 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the [d] living creatures was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living
creatures was in the wheels.  22 The likeness of the [f]firmament above the heads of the [g]living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads. 23 And under the firmament their wings
spread out straight, one toward another. Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two that covered the other side of the body. 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings.

 25 A voice came from above the firmament that was over their heads; when-ever they stood, they let down their wings. 26 And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. 27 Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were,
the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

The type of spirit fire in Ezek. 1:27 above and Ex. 3:2 the fire of the burning bush.     

This is the spiritual message the heavenly Father intended to be communicated over the face of the Earth, a far cry from idols of “astrological ages” promoted in various cultural myths throughout history. Only with a Scriptural view of the
precession of the equinoxes in its true Biblical context, can we gain wisdom that God has stored for us in Creation’s master temporal cycles. Though at times we see glimmers of true light, shining through myth’s of broken symmetry and on occasion even Astrology, we gain an unobstructed view when we take heed to both of a 2-part harmony of God’s Written Word, with His Celestial Gospel. This approach truly provides a lost history that archaeo–astronomy missed for millenia.

As part of the Creator’s grand design, the 25,920-year precessional cycle of the sun’s apparent retrograde motion against the backdrop of the tropical zodiac, depicts the Sun’s dwelling in successive zodiacal signs, dictated by earth’s shifting axis and equatorial pole. Thus, with the precession of the vernal point/vernal
equinox in mind, Earth’s central position, showing it’s figurative geocentric view, as referred to above, is not only observed with respect to the solar system, but the Earth’s centrality involves a much larger cosmic district than our community roundabout of the planets and asteroid belt. As Gen. 1:16-17 says, not only in the Sun and Moon, but also the Stars were created to shed their light upon the Earth. This includes the entire zodiacal structure, the great celestial wheels of
stars of the ecliptic, the Equator and the historical motion of their poles.

In modern astronomy we imagine a “Celestial Sphere” as reference to conceive of a rotating sphere around the Earth, on which we fix the Stars & Planets, but we understand it’s not the celestial sphere that turns on its axis, but Earth that turns around this axis, generating the illusion that the sky revolves ‘round us, as the Day/night cycle of advances. This was the source of Earth as a Universal center of Creation, opposed by Galileo who championed the Copernican helioc-entrism opposed by the Roman Catholic Church who called him before a Roman Inquisition in 1615, that concluded his opinions contradicted accepted Biblical interpretations.[14][15][16] #17a

Today, we know that it is not the celestial sphere that turns as night and day proceed, but rather the planet on which we live. We can put an imaginary stick through Earth’s North and South Poles, representing our planet’s axis. It is because Earth turns on this axis every 24 hours that we see the Sun, Moon, and stars rise and set with clockwork regularity. Today, we know that these celestial objects are not really on a dome, but at greatly varying distances from us in space. Nevertheless, it is sometimes still convenient to talk about the celestial dome or sphere to help us keep track of objects in the sky.

The Graphic in Figure 8 below depicts the equatorial north/south poles extended through the Earth. This depicts the Earth’s axes generating the dual motion of the daily/annual solar cycle, versus the Sun’s retrograde Precessional cycle at the poles. As Earth’s axes generates Northern/Southern polar cycles, we not only view a “wheel within the wheel“ Bible perspective of this cycle, but we find the role of Earth’s axes in the celestial motion of the wheels on this axle, in synch with the timing of the Almighty Who spun the planets in their cycles at Creation. We can envision this in a Figure 8 graphic below, as the great celestial wheels rotate around the Ecliptic North and South poles,

Ps. 103:18-22 18 To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them. 19 The Lord has established His throne in heaven,
And His kingdom rules over all. 20 Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word. 21 Bless the Lord, all
you His hosts, You [c]ministers of His, who do His pleasure. 22 Bless the Lord, all His works, In all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

Ps. 104:1-6 Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, 2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a  garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, [#7307] 4 Who makes His angels spirits, [#7307]#18
His ministers a flame of fire. [784] 5 You Who [b]laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains. At Thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. 8 [c] They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them. 9 You have set a boundary [1366-gebuwl, bound, a twisted line]#19 that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth.

The Flaming Sword [#2719] wielded by the Cherubim of Genesis 3:22-24 can refer also to a figurative sword of Lightning above, in Ps. 104:3-4 linked to God’s holiness and Judgment, to guard the way to the Tree of Life. We also see the “Sword of the Lord“ [Ezek. 21:3-16] to protect the Land of Israel, warring against her enemies.#20  [Rev. 19]

In 2 Sam. 22:11 & Ps. 18:10, we saw the Almighty as He: 10 And He rode [7392] upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind. [7307] We find the essence of this truth repeated in Ps. 104:3b-4 above as the Lord rides on His cherubs in His chariots of the clouds, on the wings of the wind. As the Earth’s axis/axle rotate according to God’s timing via its poles, so the great wheels fly on the wings of the wind. Below, in Fig. 8 we see how the Earth is depicted central in God’s Creation, as its axes embody a “wheel within the wheels,” rotating around the axes poles of the Celestial Ecliptic and Equator. 

With Earth as the figurative center of Creation and the object of the three-fold celestial light shed from the heavens, the purpose and beauty of the cosmos is to shed its threefold light upon the earth, as God began with the dual year of the Sun, as seen in Psalm 19 and in Joseph’s two dreams in Genesis 37. We see the dual Solar year, in the Sun’s annual and retrograde precessional cycles, with the Celestial vs. agricultural themes implied in the tree of life, referenced in Joseph’s two dreams.

We can see how the geographic and magnetic Earthly poles are reflected in the North/South Poles of the ecliptic and the Equator, in the sky map seen in Figure 8. below.

magnetic poles

The Sun’s Cycle of Precession

The initial Biblical evidence of precession in Psalm 19, introduces the role of the Solar “dual year,” or its annual and precessional cycles, the two prime standards for astronomical time. This differentiates the Sun’s dual year, first seen in it’s annual cycle, spending one month in each sign of the 12 Zodiacal signs, versus the retrograde precessional cycle, where it spends a “great month” or 2,160 solar years in the 12 signs of the ecliptic. As the Sun moves through all 12 signs of the tropical zodiac, the Sun completes a cycle of the “great year,”  in about 25,920 solar years. The sixth verse of Psalm 19 briefly refers to this apparent retrograde motion of the Sun:

Psalm 19:6 
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

“His going forth is from the end of the heaven… a reference to the Sun’s path through the ecliptic, so called because all the solar and lunar eclipses occur on this course. The words “going forth” in Hebrew are mowtsa [*H4161], meaning the dawn, the east, a gate, the rising of the sun. 55

This refers to the place or gate of the rising of the Sun, also known as the vernal
point of the Spring Equinox, the sign of the zodiac where the sun rise occurs, indicating the sun’s retrograde precessional movement, because the sun rises in a different “gate,” or successive zodiacal house on average each 2,160 years.
The sun’s annual cycle, or solar year is seen in “his circuit” above, which in the Hebrew is (*H8622) tequphah: rendered, “at the end of the year” [2 Chron. 24:
23],#21 an obvious reference to the annual solar cycle. Thus we have in brief, a Biblical contrast between these two solar cycles. The Genesis 37 record of the dreams of Joseph takes us into greater depth on the Biblical testimony of precession. Joseph’s 2nd dream in Gen. 37:9-11 reveals the precessional context, with its use of stellar terms, in particular the “eleven stars making Obeisance” to his star or sign of the Bull, Taurus. The 12 “stars” of Joseph’s dream correlate with Jacob’s 12 sons in Gen. 49 forming the Sidereal zodiac. One can also view the precession of the Vernal equinox as Solar retrograde motion against a fixed background of the sidereal Stellar zodiac in the stars. Thus, Joseph’s second dream reveals astronomical truth that his first dream
with an agricultural theme, does not. This perspective of the Genesis records in chapter’s 37 & 49 can help us differentiate between the various temporal cycles of solar/lunar time, galactic time, supplying elevated views of cosmic time in the motion of the Milky Way Galaxy. The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of
the Milky Way Galaxy.#22[1] A galactic year is near 225 million Earth years. [2]
The Solar System is moving at average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the Galactic Center. [3]

The axes marked on the zodiac show the movement of Solstices & Equinoxes through the constellations between the foundation of Egypt and the building of the Denderah Temple. Sirius appears twice – once on the true North-South axis, above the horns of the “cow of Isis“, and also on the axis of the temple, as Horus on a papyrus stem. The star’s light illuminated the inner temple on New Year’s Day, at Sirius’ heliacal rising, when the temple was built. In that era, it would have coincided with the summer solstice in Cancer, which is why Sirius also appears aligned to Cancer on the North-South axis.

John Lash points out another axis on the Dendera Zodiac, which goes from the four rams’ heads, through Pisces, across the pole to the star Spica, being held by Virgo. This, he says, is pointing out the position of the vernal equinox today. The line goes through the Square of Pegasus, at exactly 90 degrees to this axis, another line drawn through the tip of Sagittarius’ arrow, pointing to the Galactic Centre, where the solstice alignment took place in 2012. John Lash’s summed up his Dendera theory in Colin Wilson’s book, Atlantis Blue-print., found in the Dendera Zodiac link opening this paragraph.

We must recall that the Rules of the Celestial Gospel tell us that God named & numbered the stars in Ps. 147:4, which is why a History of Biblical Astronomy takes priority over human astronomical history. A goal of Biblical Astronomy records the original star names God gave, to define the truth of the Celestial Gospel, not the idolatry of mankind who corrupted these first truths in their astrologies, that remain forbidden by God, [Deut. 4:15-28, Isa. 47:9-15]. 

Tying the Cherubim to the four royal stars of the ecliptic [Leo, Taurus, Aquila, & Aquarius] linked the four Royal faces the ancient’s tracked seasonal transition points of the year, on the ecliptic goes back to when the king star Regulus was identified in Summer’s solstice in bygone ages. These celestial turnstiles tracked the four gates or annual divisions marked by the Cherubim’s four faces. Just as the first Cherubim protected the integrity of the Ecliptic Sign/Star Names, we too are charged in this solemn duty to protect the integrity of the Celestial Gosspel, with their God given Star names.

Regulus sits near exactly on the ecliptic, the path the Sun, Moon, & planets all travel across our sky, making it a key fixed star point that ancient astronomers had for tracking our Earthly temporal seasons. Historians, or astronomers did not choose the name Regulus, prince of Leo the Lion of Judah, the Almighty and the Creator did, telling us of His only begotten Son-the Lord Jesus Christ, who differs from the Father, being born in the flesh, thus not being Omnipresent.

Rev. 19:13-16 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in [f]fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a [g]sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

Footnotes

1. Strong’s Concordance [#8104-Shamar], James Strong
2. IBID-(*H7812 shachah)
3. IBID- (H4910–maschal)
4. IBID-(*H7812)
4a. Fig. 4a from Harmonica Macrocosmica [A. Cellarius, Amsterdam 1660] depicts a Sun-centered Copernican view of the cosmos.
5.  Strong’s Concordance [7725] the soul: [5315] the testimony [5715]  the Lord is sure, [539] making wise [2449] the simple. 8 statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: [3820], James Strong
6. Strongs Concordance #7549 Raqiya–Gen. 1:6-8,20, 2:6, Job 26:7, Ps. 104:3, 148:4, Ezek. 1:22-26, James Strong 
7. IBID #3820
8. Figure 5 Picture credit Witness of the Stars, p. E.W. Bullinger
9. Johnpratt.com
10. Strongs Concordance, Cherub [#3742]-winged order of angel, James Strong
11. IBID, [8104-shamar] guard as watchman, to keep safe, preserve, protect [1Sam. 26:15-16, Job 2:6… James Strong 
12. IBID, [3680–kacah-to cover, clothe, conceal, hide, keep secret, as the pillar of
cloud covered the Tabernacle, Num. 9:16, Js. 5:14-20, covering or hiding sins
is forgiveness, Ps. 32:1, 85:2, 103:3, 11-12, cp. Prov. 17:9, 28:13, Neh. 4:5, see #3722-Kaphar].
13. IBID-[3727-kapporeth– ark lid, from 3725–kippur, atonement]
14. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/jan/13/lava-gushes-from-taal-volcano-in-philippines-in-pictures [Picture credit]
15. Figure 6 picture credit, [Jewishenclopedia.com]
16. Strongs Concordance, A Hebrew word for “wheel” in Ezekiel, [10:2, 10] is galgal [*H1534], James Strong
17. IBID, a variant of “Gilgal” [*H1536], James Strong
17a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
18. IBID, Repetition of [#H7307-ruwach; air for breathing from H7306] in Ps. 103:3-4, refers to His ministers a flame of fire [H784]. Ex. 3:2,13:21, 14:24, 19:17-18, Num. 11:
1-3, 16:30-40, Deut. 1:33, 4:24, 33, Judg. 6:19-24, 1Kg. 18:23,24, 38-40, 19:12, 2Kgs. 1:10-12, 2:11, 6:17, 1Chr. 21:26, Neh. 9:12, Job 1:16, Ps. 105:39, Prov. 25:22, Isa. 43:2, Jer. 23: 29, Ezek. 10:2, 6-7, Dan. 5:20, 7:9-10, 10:6]  

19. IBID, 1366-gebuwl, bound, a twisted line], James Strong
20. IBID, [#2719]-katesthio-to devour
21. IBID, (*H8622) tequphah, James Strong
22a. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/galacticyear
23b. IBID
23c. IBID
24.

 

King Cyrus God’s Anointed King

Welcome to July 2026′ 12th Anniversary Blog folks! July‘s study marks 12 years of Biblical Astronomy research in honor of the Celestial Gospel. As we proceed in our view of Persia’s Empire, we reveal the facts of King’s Darius I, Xerxes 1, and Artaxerxes I, in their transfers of royal power. Our unity on this topic infers Queen Esther’s husband was Darius I, due to Mordecai’s old age,  making it a study goal to uncover an identity of Xerxes’ wife. This urges a study of all evidence from other views, to fully examine the topical context. In revealing the chronology ending Darius‘ reign, opening to Xerxes’ rule, to align the chronology, we cite a key period in history lined up with the co-regency of Xerxes 1 & Darius 1. The key in hunting a history of this co-regency was found by Gerard Gertoux,‘ tied to periodic astronomical intercalations during this time:

Intercalations during the co-regency of Xerxes with Darius I, sparked a chronological debate among Greek historians as to whether Xerxes died in 475 BC, according to Herodotus and Thucydides, or in 465 BC, according to the Babylonian royal lists, was decided by the famed Greek astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy, who published around 150 AD the Babylonian (and Achaemenid) chronology dated after the Nabonassar era, that began in 748 BC. Claudius Ptolemy converted all Babylonian dates into the Egyptian civil calendar, that allowed him to verify historical synchronisms with Egyptian chronology. He also verified accurately some lunar eclipses found in astronomical tablets dated in Year of the King (Almagest). A result of Ptolemy’s reliance on verifiably–dated eclipses, is all historians after 150 AD, without exception, adopted a Babylonian chronology and modified the Greek chronology to bring it into line with the new absolute chronology of the Achaemenid period. This Babylonian chronology established by Claudius Ptolemy was confirmed by the BM 34576 tablet (copy of the King List dated 99 BC). A study of all tablets (contracts & inscriptions) dated during the period 626–331 BC was published; (Parker, Dubberstein: 1956) and demonstrated that all durations of the Achaemenid period agreed with those of the Babylonian royal lists, providing several short co-regencies were admitted shortly before and during the enthronement of the new king.” #1


The accession of Xerxes in year 26 of Darius I (496 BC) occurred in a normal year, made his first year of reign an intercalary year (in Babylon), but since Xerxes resided in Persepolis the Persian astronomical priests did not add   an intercalary month at year’s end (XIIb), they visibly began a new cycle of  intercalation from the 2nd year of Xerxes (2U), shifting Xerxes intercalation cycle, that began in Persepolis (Ossendrijver: 2018, 141), from that of Darius. The intercalation cycle began during the reign of Xerxes, continuing till the end of Artaxerxes I’ reign. #2 In our last 2 blog-studies we presented Eclipse evidence for the Death of Xerxes in 475BC from Gerard Gertoux. #3

We find in 475 BC the Moon was 20° behind Sagittarius, and in 465 BC it was in the sign Sagittarius. According to an astronomical tablet the 1st lunar eclipse [total] was: in Sagittarius‘ 4 rear stars in [475 BC]. Thus, via astronomy, Xerxes died (14/V/21) on Wed. 23, August 475 BC with his accession 21 years earlier in 496 BC, also Darius I’ Year 26. Despite Pierre Briant denying his co–regency due to his ideology, he admits Xerxes was Crown Prince long before Darius‘ death, because if Xerxes became Crown Prince just before the death  of Darius, one must admit that this king waited a long time-till his 72nd year in 486 BC#43/4, as Xerxes was 35 yrs old, when his parent’s union dated to Darius’ accession in 522 BC. Consequently, this chronology involves Xerxes’ choice before 490 BC.# 44/5.In fact, Xerxes was both the crown prince and co–regent, in a 10-year co-regency, with his accession from 496BC till the death of Darius in 486BC.

As Alignment depends on Accession Date, the alignment of Persian and Jewish years of Xerxes to any postdated reign, depends on whether a Persian or Jewish New Year came first after accession. If Xerxes’ year 21 on a Persian Calendar was 465, his year 1 was 485 BC, from spring to spring; he must have come to the throne some time before that, since his “accession year was the part of his reign preceding his first full calendar year. His accession date can be shown some  time preceding Nov. 486BC, because the latest known tablet dated in his father-Darius‘ last regnal year- in the 7th month, was first dated in Xerxes‘ reign in the 8th month (approx. Dec. 1). #38/6 After his accession in November, 486 BC, the first New Year’s Day to arrive was the Egyptian-1st of Thoth, in December (Fig. 2- I); #39/7. The Egyptian 1st year began, but those of his subjects who used the Babylonian-Persian calendar (band 2) would not begin to date by his first year until the next Nisanu I, the next Spring; and those who used the Jewish fall-to-fall; Tishri calendar (band 3) continued to date the accession year until their New Year’s Day came-next Tishri I, in the 7th month–almost a year after his accession and half a year after the Persian year I had started. (That is why, in some of these papyri, the Dateline in 2 calendars can have 2 regnal years.) So, in his reign, any specific year of Xerxes from year I to year 21–began earliest
in an Egyptian calendar, then in a Persian calendar, and last in the Jew’s time table. This demonstrated that the Jewish year 21, reckoned from Tishri I, must be 465BC.#7a.

As we see in the Book of [Esther 1:9-19, 2:4] Ahasuerus‘ former wife was Vashti. Yet, the Great Feast described in v. 3, the 3rd year of his reign as we learn from Persian inscriptions, was held in preparation for the Persian expedition against Greece, after the death of Darius, who relinquished the title-Ahasuerus to his co-regent son Xerxes, ruling 485-465 BC, leading a vast Persian army against Greece c. 482-1 BC.#7b  He fought famed battles of Thermopalyae & Salamis in 480 BC, & ostensibly married Esther in the 7th year of his reign [Est. 2:16-17], in 478 BC. #8

A key Archaeological inscription from the Shushan Palace @ Susa-200 miles East of Babylon, capital of Elam & winter residence of Persian Kings was a site identified by Loftus in 1852, where the record from Artaxerxes II [405-358 BC] says; “My ancestor Darius [521-485 BC] built this palace in former times. In the reign of my grandfather [Artaxerxes 1; 465-425 BC] it burned. I have restored it.” The palace of Darius’ residence, who authorized rebuilding of Jerusalem’s Temple; of Xerxes as Esther’s husband; & Artaxerxes 1, who authorized a restoration of Jerusalem by Nehemiah.” #8a

 

The location of this inscription was in the famed building in Susa called its “Apadana“, an audience hall of the Palace of Darius. Apadana-the word is only known from Susa – was built together with the palace by Darius I the Great (r.522-486BC). This can be deduced from an inscription known as A2Sa,  written for Artaxerxes II Mnemon (r.404-358), who finished a restoration of the complex after a great fire during the reign of his grandfather, Artaxerxes I Makrocheir (r.465-424/423): The inscription below reads in part:

“Artaxerxes, the great king, the king of kings, the king of all nations, the king of this world, the son of king Darius [II Nothus], Darius the son of Artaxerxes king [I Makrocheir], Artaxerxes son of king Xerxes, Son of king Darius, Darius the son of Hystaspes, the Achaemenid, says: My ancestor Darius I the Great, made the apadana, but during the reign of Artaxerxes my grandfather, it was burnt down; but, by grace of Ahura-mazda, Anahita, & Mithra, I reconstructed the audience hall. So Ahura-mazda, Anahita, & Mithra protect me against all evil, and may they never destroy or damage what I have built.” #8b

 

A Pillar Capital “Bull“ of the Apadana at Susa. #8b1

Susa, Apadana, Capital

Apadana, site of the throne among the 36 column bases in the audience hall is a thirty-seventh foundation, in the exact center if one enters from the northern, main entrance. This must have been the place of the throne of the Achaemenid king. #8c The fact that there are no columns left to be erected, makes it hard to  imagine what a splendid building the Apadana was in Antiquity. Thus, only the column‘ bases are left in Susa today, as seen below;

A key Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions is the “daiva inscription“. The Old Persian text, known from three stone slabs from Persepolis & the Pasargadae citadel, (Elamite and Babylonian copies exist.) The interesting detail for why this text has become famous turns on a meaning of the word daiva, clearly means “demon” and looks similar to the word daeva in the Avesta (Zoroastrian holy book). If daiva & daeva agree, it makes it more likely the rebels lived in Iran, where the Zoroastrian religion held sway. But, if these words clash; daiva refers to idols of Babylon or Egypt. #8c1

As Xerxes adhered to Ahura-mazda-primary God of Zoroastrianism, who was the only other monotheistic God with Israel’s Jehovah, not considered an idol or part of an idol pantheon, its reasonable that Persian kings especially after King Cyrus, who himself was a Messianic figure with a Godly commission to lead people positively to the One true God-as the Persian–Zoroastrian Magi did at Christ’s Birth. As we bear in mind this sentiment appears in other parts of the daiva inscription;

“King Xerxes says: when I became king, there was among these countries one that was in rebellion. Ahuramazda bore me aid. By the grace of Ahuramazda,    I smote that country and put it down in its place. And among these countries there was a place where previously demons (daiva) were worshipped. After-wards, by the grace of Ahuramazda I destroyed that sanctuary of demons, &   I proclaimed: ‘The demons shall not be worshipped!‘ Where previously the demons were worshipped, there I worshipped Ahuramazda at a proper time and manner. And the other business that had done ill, I made good. That which I did, all I did by the grace of Ahuramazda. Ahuramazda bore me aid until I  completed the work.” #8d

The line of Persian kings listed after King Cyrus- both share these righteous motives with the kings of Israel like king David, to further the worship of the true Monotheistic God, and cast down false idols. This is established in Isa. 45:1 below as Cyrus–called “Messiah“-King Cyrus, exalted in Judaism for his role in freeing the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity by issuing the Edict of Restoration following the Persian conquest of Babylon. This event is described in the Hebrew Bible as the return to Zion, where displaced Jews were repatriated to what had been the Kingdom of Judah, thus enabling a resurgence of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. King Cyrus also allows for Jewish aspirations for a new Temple in Jerusalem in the Achaemenid Empire’s Yehud province, where Solomon’s Temple stood before being destroyed during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. His efforts resulted in the completion of the Second Temple. #8e

Daniel’s oversight of the Magi influenced King Cyrus, not only made Daniel privy to detailed plans to rebuild Jerusalem & the Temple, but also how these blueprints impacted contemporary cultures of the ancient middle-east. The Prophet Daniel with his gifted team of Brilliant men of God, were set apart by first accurately revealing king Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, and interpreting it, that gifted Daniel with a high position in the king’s royal court of Babylon, including key governmental authority, where he was made chief over all wise men, magicians, and soothsayers, of Babylon. This was a key aspect of their story placing Daniel & his team in positions of influence as many royal decrees that came down, not only from Nebuchadnezzar, but numerous of the subsequent kings including Cyrus, during their lifetimes.

(Note: Daniel’s captivity in 605 BC unto 1917/1947 is 1260 + 1260 & 1260 + 1290 years plus a day/year or two, (Dan. 12, Rev. 11-12). Jerusalem again fell in 586 BC, 19 Metonic years later, and thus the pattern repeats, this time to 1967 – a second witness! 
 
Daniel’s knowledge of the Gospel in the Stars not only enlightened his view of the OT Prophecies of Christ, provided the key insight needed to teach critical keys to the Zoroastrian Magi, whose Godly monotheism also influenced King
Cyrus, as one of the most enlightened leaders in history. As seen in the Axioms of the Cyrus Cylinder– his example of leadership was the first true model of diversity, that included successful rule over nations with varied languages, belief systems and Religions. Since a number of Persian Kings of the Faith of Zoroaster included Cyrus, it provided a source of religious tolerance shown in his reign. Cyrus’ influence in ruling conquered nations impacted many other historical kingdoms that included the Roman Empire, who applied similar principles in their conquered lands. 
 
This speaks highly of how and why The Hand of the Almighty God dealt so graciously not only with this line of Persian kings, but also with the class of Parthian/Zoroastrian Magi, instructed by the Prophet Daniel as followers of the path leading to Christ‘s Birth, the ultimate anointed Son of God in 3BC. This too certifies a common God-acknowledged Source of ultimate spiritual authority regarding Jehovah & Ahuramazda both as One monotheistic God. 

 

Biblically King Cyrus is recalled as a Messianic figure, [Isa. 45:1] called “His anointed-[4899-mashiyach]-refers to a class of patriarchs, priests or kings– based on Messiah/Christ-Christos G5547, 1Sam. 2:7-10, 2Sam. 22:51, Ps. 9:2-7, 18:50]” to open the 2-leaved gates of Babylon that shall not be shut, as Isaiah declared [Isa. 44:28-45:1]. As King David in the royal Christ-line became the archetype of the Messiah. [Acts 13:32-37, Heb. 5:5-10] King Cyrus, as a Gentile King, God called as the “Lord’s Anointed” to deliver Israel from their captor’s in Babylon, returning them to their homeland. As King Cyrus authorized the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple, freed the Jews from exile in Babylonian Captivity, returned to their Promised Land of Israel. #8f

 

As a result Israel regained their freedom to exert their spiritual influence as among the worldly kingdoms as agents of the true monotheistic God. As long as they obeyed their Prophets we stood in good stead with the Almighty, but if the Kings of Israel did evil in God’s sight, turning away from the truth of God’s Word, they reaped the fruit of their ways. During the darker times the influence of the Scribes and Pharisees was a key factor in how Israel fared. Their influence is found in The Midrash as a genre of Jewish Biblical exegesis, [2] that includes Talmudic texts that use a classical rabbinic mode of homiletical interpretation (derash). This word means; “textual interpretation“, “study“, or “exegesis“,[3] derived from a root verb (דָּרַשׁ‎)- darash, which means “resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require.”#8g

 

As we consider the royalty of the book of Esther, concepts of Ahasuerus & Vashti are found in the Rabbinic Midrash, with other sources where Vashti was considered of royal blood. Midrash involves Scripture interpretation
to elucidate legal points [Midrash Halakah], or bring out lessons via stories or homiletics [Midrash Aggadah]. #8h Midrash is too named for the Rabbinic interpretations, of rabbinic readings to “discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory vehicles.” “Their review of major Scripture narratives that suggest alternate readings to stand beside—not replace—existing grammatical text. #9

Midrash is also used in a rabbinic work that interprets Scripture in this manner,[7][8] containing early interpretations and commentaries on Written Torah and Oral Torah (spoken law and sermons), as well as non-legalistic rabbinic literature (aggadah) and at times Jewish religious laws (halakha), usually forming running commentary on specific passages in the Hebrew Scripture. The midrash conveys that Vashti was the orphaned daughter of Belshazzar; God was her help and kept her alive to be wed to the emperor of Persia and Media, even though she was Chaldean (=Babylonian) (Esth. Rabbah 3:5).#10

 

Belshazzar had been known only from the Book of Daniel (chapt. 5, 7–8) and from Xenophon’s Cyropaedia till 1854, when references to him were found in Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions. Though in the Book of Daniel he was the son of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian inscriptions indicate that he was in fact the eldest son of Nabonidus, who was king of Babylon from 555 to 539, and of Nitocris, who was perhaps a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar. As the last king of a Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC, as Babylon fell to the Achaemenid
Empire under Cyrus the Great  in 539 BC. It is possible that Nabonidus was married to a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar II’. Not only would such a link explain Nabonidus’s rise to the throne (as part of the royal family), but it also accounts for histories where Belshazzar is found as Nebuchadnezzar’s descendant. In the Bible Book of Daniel– Belshazzar is not only known as Nebuchadnezzar’s grand-son,[10] but Daniel himself appears to have dated events in the years of Belshazzar’s co-regency, [Dan. 7:1, 8:1]. As Nabonidus goes into exile (550), he entrusted Belshazzar with the throne and the major part of his army, when Belshazzar oversaw the government, his own estates, and those of his father.#11

 

Jer. 27:6-7 “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him. 7 All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.”

Nebuchadnezzar’s Family Tree Chart #11a

The Kings of Babylon were also mentioned in the book of Daniel. Do these prophecies of Jeremiah harmonize with Daniel Chapter 5?

Jeremiah’s prophecy that many nations (including Judah) and great kings (including Jehoiachin) would serve Nebuchadnezzar and “his son and his grandson.” So Babylon was predicted to end with Nebuchadnezzar’s grand-son. Indeed it ended 60 years later with Belshazzar, son of the state noble Nabonidus who was a usurper to the throne, nonetheless not in the line of Nebuchadnezzar, who allied the Babylonians with the Medes via another royal wedding: as the Babylonian crown prince Nebuchadnezzar married Amytis, the daughter of Astyages. Via the Chart above we find Nabonidus married Nitrocis, Nebuchadnezzar’s daughter, making him Nebuchadnezzar’s son-in-law and Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson.

If Darius I was indeed the husband of Esther, then what does history tell us about Darius’ wife? 

Via Herodotus, Otanes was blessed with royal marriages. Darius I married Otanes’ daughter; Phaedymia while Otanes married a sister of Darius, who gave birth to Amestris. As Queen of the Achaemenid empire, daughter of Otanes (Ctesias, fragment 13, par. 24 [in Jacoby, Fragmente] gives Onophas),  one of seven conspirators against Gaumata. She was married to Xerxes I (Herodotus 7.61.2) and was mother of Artaxerxes I, Amytis, and others. She died at an old age, near the end of Artaxerxes’ I reign.#12

 

Amestris was a daughter of Otanes, one of seven nobles reputed to have killed the magus impersonating King Bardiya in 522 BC. After this, Darius I the Great of Persia assumed the throne. The right side of the chart below shows an Achaemenid lineage, while the left side details Bardiya/Smerdis usurpers as pretenders opposed by Darius to Cyrus I’ throne.

Thus, if Xerxes I who was co-regent with Darius I- starting 496 BC was not Esther’s husband, then who was Xerxes’ wife? History points us to a woman named Amastris;

Amestris (Greek: Άμηστρις, Amēstris, perhaps the same as Άμαστρις, Amāstris, from Old Persian Amāstrī–, “strong woman“)[2] was an Achaemenid queen, wife of king Xerxes I and mother of king Artaxerxes I.[3][4] She was an influential woman of the Achaemenid era, very powerful and vindictive.#13 [5]


1. Achaemenid queen, daughter of Otanes (Ctesias, fragment 13, par. 24 [in Jacoby, Fragmente] gives Onophas), who was one of seven conspirators who killed the Persian usurper king Gaumâta (22 September 522 BC). After this, Darius I the Great who reigned from 522-486BC opened his rule. According to Greek historian Herodotus, (5th century), Otanes was honored in diplomatic marriage: the new king married Otanes’ daughter Phaedymia, as Otanes married a sister of Darius, who birthed Amestris.

Family tree of Amestris


Amastris married Xerxes I (Herodotus 7.61.2) and as mother of Artaxerxes I, Amytis, and others, she had a bad reputation of being licentious and notoriously cruel; (Ctesias, fragment 14), she exercised a baneful influence in Artaxerxes’ court; e.g., she is said to have caused the wife of her brother-in-law Masistes to be mutilated (Herodotus 9.109-l2) One of the only consistent facts in Persian succession referenced in history is the mother of a legitimate heir was always Persian. In fact, all royal wives marked in Greek and Persian sources were Persian women. Any consort who wasn’t, is marked as a concubine.#14This is a popular case for why Esther as Jewess Queen with Persian King fell in history under a shadow of doubt. But as Mordecai the Grand Vizier & adopted Father of Esther, advised she conceal her genealogy, these facts did not come to light till afterwards. The Hebrew-Greek Septuagint– as the source text for the book of Esther, was produced in a later Persian or early Seleucid period, belongs to a Hellenistic genre. For more on Esther: see Ego, B. (2019) “Prayer & Emotion in the Septuagint of Esther“ Ego, B. (2006) Esther, Brill Online.#15“After the death of Atossa, Amastris, the wife of Xerxes, whom Greek writers such as Herodotus describe as a powerful yet cold-hearted woman, played a leading role in Xerxes’ court. Amastris also accompanied him during his military campaign against Greece.”[15]“Amastris, the first lady of Xerxes’ court, was a most formidable & ruthless women of her time. Though many actions attributed to her by Greek historians cannot be fully accepted, the surviving evidence points to her psychological strength and authority.

Amastris outlived Xerxes, remained  active in royal affairs serving as Queen mother during a long reign of her son Artaxerxes I. “During his reign, powers of kingdom influence were in her hands. The young king, Artaxerxes I, was heavily swayed by his mother, Amastris, and his sister, Amestris. The Queen Mother lived a long life, and her reputable standing of lineage and wealth, ranked highly, as her authority and respect remained intact until the end. She died in early 424 BC, aged near 90, with the passing of Artaxerxes himself following soon after.[12][13] #16 

Midrash is also used of a rabbinic work that interprets Scripture in this manner,[7][8] containing early interpretations and commentaries on Written Torah and Oral Torah (spoken law and sermons).#17  Midrash also asks questions of the text; proding the reader to seek truth, at times providing text driven answers,”
As a Jewish mode of interpretation; Midrash not only engages the words of the text, behind the text, and beyond the text, but is focused on each letter, and their part in forming the words of each line.


Mordechai and the Jehoiachin Exile

A good reason for reading the story of the megillah as having occurred before the rebuilding of the Temple comes in Esther 2:5 introducing Mordechai:

אסתר ב:ה אִישׁ יְהוּדִי הָיָה בְּשׁוּשַׁן הַבִּירָה וּשְׁמוֹ מָרְדֳּכַי בֶּן יָאִיר בֶּן שִׁמְעִי בֶּן קִישׁ אִישׁ יְמִינִי. ב:ו אֲשֶׁר הָגְלָה מִירוּשָׁלַיִם עִם הַגֹּלָה אֲשֶׁר הָגְלְתָה עִם יְכָנְיָה מֶלֶךְ יְהוּדָה אֲשֶׁר הֶגְלָה נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר מֶלֶךְ בָּבֶל.

Esth. 2:5 In the fortress Shushan lived a Jew by the name of Mordecai, son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite. 2:6 Who was exiled from Jerusalem in the group that was carried into exile along with King Jeconiah of Judah, which had been driven into exile by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

As a son of Kish, this name of the father of King Saul, another Benjaminite, the Talmud accords Mordecai the status of a descendant of the first King of Israel.
Grammatically speaking, the clause “who had been exiled” can refer to Kish or to Mordecai. If the rabbis hold to the latter, it means that Mordechai lived during the 1st exile, eleven years before the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. According to Daniel 9:2, Jerusalem lay desolate for 70 years before the Temple was rebuilt, that would be 81 years after Mordechai had been exiled. As it is hard to imagine Mordechai– a 100-110+ year old man in the story, so the rabbis would have to agree that the story of the megillah took place before the Temple was rebuilt.#18 This agrees with the record of Ezra 4;

Ezra 4:1 “Now when the [a]adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the Lord God of Israel… they opposed and discouraged them…

Ezra 4:4-6
3 But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, “You may do nothing with us to build a [b]house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.” 4 Then the people of the land tried to discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in building, 5 and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Achashverosh [Ahasuerus] reigned between Daryavesh (=Darius I), during whose reign the Temple was rebuilt (Ezra 6:15), & Artachshasta (=Artaxerxes I).[7] This supports the idea that Achashverosh was identified with Xerxes.#19

 The Seal of Xerxes

Seal of Xerxes. Perrot & Chipiez 1890 fig. 497, via Briant 2002 fig. 30.

O leaves tender and beautiful
of my beloved plane tree
On you may fate shine resplendent
May thunder, lighting, and storms
never intrude, ever, on your dear peace of mind,
nor may there be any wind that comes to violate you
—some violent wind from the west.

Shade there never was
of any plant
so dear and lovely
or any more sweet.

Trans. Gregory Nagy

As the Seal of Xerxes shows, his veneration of the Tree of Life, which for him is a plane tree that grows in the Greek-speaking territory of Asia Minor, as an overarching symbol of his ambition as king of a multi-ethnic Persian Empire. But the king’s failure on the West side of the Aegean Sea led to an occlusion of his imperial ambition—to be replaced by the ambitions of other Persian kings, all devotees of the Tree of Life. #19a 

Mordechai

In an introductory statement about the reign of Xerxes, after presenting two of Xerxes’ influential advisors, Ctesias writes; “among the eunuchs,[29] Natacas (Nατακας) exercised the greatest influence.”[30] A few lines later, he refers to a eunuch of Xerxes named Matacas (Ματακας). These two names likely reflect the same person.[31]

The “as” at the end of either name is almost certainly a Greek addition. Thus, “Matacas” suggests a Persian name with the consonants MTC, which would be very close to the consonants of the name Mordechai, MRDC.[32] Even the name “Natacas” is not that different. “N” and “M” are related consonants, both being nasal stops; it is not unusual for one to transform into the other.

With either form of the name, the information provided by Ctesias, that he was a high-ranking official in Xerxes court, bears a strong resemblance to the last verse in the Megillah, which records by the end of the story, Mordechai was 2nd mishneh (=second) to the king. So, the Matacas of Ctesias and Mordechai of the Megillah may very well refer to the same historical person.#20

In checking in the tablets of Persepolis that Mordecai was an eminent royal scribe called Marduka who worked with Tatennai, the Governor beyond the River, under the direction of Uštanu, the satrap of Babylon, during the years 17 to 32 of Darius. Similarly, the narrative of Herodotus regarding Amestris (a name meaning ‘vigorous woman’ in Old Persian), Xerxes‘ unique wife and only queen known in Persia, correlates in many ways to Esther; ‘star’-Old Persian” despite the unfavourable and biased description of the Persian queen.

 

According to the book of Esther there was a plot to kill Xerxes which was thwarted in the 11th year of his reign, we read: Bigthan and Teresh, two eunuchs & official‘s–ministers of the King’s Court — the porters — were outraged seeking to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. But this thing came to be known to Mordecai, and he soon revealed it to Queen Esther. Then Esther told the king in Mordecai’s name.  The case was thus sought and finally discovered, with both hanged on a  pole (…) Shortly afterwards. In the 1st month, that is the month of Nisan, the 12th year of King Ahasuerus (Est 2:21–3:7-15) as Mordecai saved the king’s life. This serious accusation against the Jews is dated in the 12th year of Xerxes legal reign (Est. 3:7–10), was tied to Haman’s desire to genocide the nation/people of Israel, near the start of his effective reign, (Ezr. 4:6).

This information from Ctesias & Plutarch overlap, making it possible to locate the two brief reigns of Bel–šimânni and Šamaš–erîba in year 485 BC or early in the effective reign of Xerxes after the death of Darius. Contemporary records in Babylonian archives dating to the reigns of Bêl-šimânni and Šamaš-eriba; over a division of a large satrapy of Babylonia, early in Xerxes’ reign in 2 parts, as seen in the “daiva inscription” of Xerxes, that recorded the suppression of a

religious revolt in the empire. A remark by Roman author Arrian of Nicomedia, using 4th-century BC sources, stated Xerxes subdued a Babylonian revolt on his return from the war against Greece (479 BC). Via Arrian, Xerxes punished the city by closing the Esagila, Temple of Marduk, center of Babylon’s state cult. North of the Esagila was the Etemenanki, the ‘Foundation of heaven on earth‘, better known to us as the ‘Tower of Babel‘ [Gen. 11]. This temple tower (or ziggurat) was 92 meters high and had seven levels. According to the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the Persian king Xerxes had a statue removed from the Esagila when he sacked the city.#21

 

Figure 3. Ziggurat of Susa. 21a.

Chogha Zanbil [ Dūr Untash Ziggurat ] | Chiyakotravel

Parrot’s survey includes numerous illustrations, for example, a three-tiered structure on an Old Babylonian cylinder seal, four-to five-tiered towers on Assyrian cylinder seals, and a five-tiered ziggurat of Susa on a relief sculpture shows Assurbanipal’s Elamite campaign.#21b In addition, a considerable body of literary and pictorial evidence documents a concept of 7-level Ziggurats: 1. The Esagila tablet from Uruk (AO 6555), first noticed by George Smith in 1876, dates to 229 BC,#21c. and is now also known from a partial duplication in the British Museum (BM 40813), they are thought to be copies of an original, no later than the early-seventh century BC.#21d. This displays the dimensions of the temple-tower Etemenanki (é.temen.an.ki) part in a complex @ Esagila-in Babylon, completed by Nebuchadrezzar II. Seven stages are described, in their respective dimensions (AO 6555 ll. 36–42). The height of the structure equal to the base, agreeing with Strabo’s input, & Frankfort’s deduction on the original height of the Ziggurat at Khorsabad.


At Khorsabad only four stages were discerned, but Frankfort thought it reasonable that there had been three further stages, as the height of the structure would then match the base “which was, according to Strabo, the case in Babylon.”#21e.

The Ziggurat at Ur.

Sümerler, Mezopotamya’ya yaklaşık olarak M.Ö. 3500’lerden sonra gelmeye başlamıştır.

This sets out dimensions of the temple tower Etemenanki (é.temen.an.ki) of
Esagila’s complex in Babylon, completed by Nebuchadrezzar II, detailing Seven stages, with their respective dimensions; (AO 6555 ll. 36–42).

A broken Neo-Babylonian stele (MS 2063) in the Schøyen Collection depicts a king, apparently Nebuchadrezzar II, “standing before a Ziggurrat of 7-stories drawn in outline & labelled [é].tem[en] .an.ki [ziqúra-at ba-bili (ká.dingir.ra)ki ‘E-temen-anki, Ziqqurrat of Babylon.’ #21f.

If the Babylonian revolts occurred during the first year 1 of Xerxes’ reign, a chronological ranking of contracts29 tells us that they took place when the king had been fully recognized in Borsippa, which would be quite illogical. In fact, for the Babylonians the legitimate king was Šamaš–erîba. For a Babylonian scribe, Xerxes, an Achaemenid, was a usurper in his 1st year of reign, not a legitimate king in his 11th year of reign. To avoid this scene historians have speculated that the Babylonian revolts were at their maximum near 484/ 483 rather than 485 BC, but this assumption is contradicted by 3 elements:

1. If the first Babylonian revolt occurred in 484 BC, this year would have been the 2nd regnal year of Xerxes, however two tablets of Šamaš–erîba are clearly dated in year 1 of Xerxes.

2. Greek historians describing the succession Darius/ Xerxes all indicate that some Babylonian revolts occurred just after the death of Darius, not 2 years later. In addition, that chronology makes sense because revolts usually occur just after the death of a king when some pretenders to the throne contest the succession, which was the case for Xerxes.


3. An astronomical fragment (JCS 1, 350 n°2) enables a dating of the Babylonian revolts. Although data are fragmentary they describe a revolt, clearly dated 05/IV/[?] during Xerxes’ reign (line 3 of the tablet) in perfect agreement with Bel–šimânni’s tablet (BM 87357). The astronomical fragment reads 30:

2) [...] ……. […]

3) [...] the month of Tammuz (IV), the 5th day […]
4) [...] to Babylon went […]
5) [...] the troops of Elam […]
6) [... the religion of Mars which to […]
7) [... Mars into Cancer entered …]
8) [... fled and into the river jumped and […]

9) [... to] Borsippa went, destroyed the city [...]

 

The historical notices appear to be related to a conflict between Babylon and Elam (Media and Persia). Line 4 indicates that the troops, &/or others, went to Babylon. Line 5 mentions the troops of Elam, and line 8 apparently refers to a military defeat (Here someone flees and then jumps into a river, a parallel is to be found in the annals of Assurbasirpal). In line 9 a group of people go to Borsippa. Lines 6–7 date these events to a year when the planet Mars was in
the vicinity of Cancer during the month of Tammuz (IV). Observations of Mars in this context may be more than coincidental since planet Mars is not only the planet of Nergal, the Babylonian War-god, but is also often linked with Elam in astrology. The fragment must refer to an astronomical omen rather than an astronomical diary for two reasons: most data comes from a chronicle rather than an astronomical record (in which historical events are rare); given that the constellation of Cancer covers 20° of the sky31 it needs 20 days for a planet
to cross it, preventing one from making observations dated to a specific days. For practical reasons, Mars was entered visibly in a star sign /constellation when it was crossing its centre. An astronomical simulation32 indicates that Mars was in the center of the constellation of Cancer near the 9th of April –484 (485 BC),

matching Nisan (1st month of Babylonian year), and again33 on March 6th–467 (468 BC). Presumably after the death of Darius, Babylonian priests, given the dissatisfaction with Babylon and this omen early in the reign of Xerxes (year 11), had predicted wars (which happened soon after).

Xerxes began his reign on two occasions, first as co-regent till 486 BC, his accession is dated III/00 (June), and again as true king after Darius 1′ death. dated 10/IX/10 (8 December 486 BC). Darius I 522-496 Darius I/Xerxes 496-486 Pherendates 496-486 Darius I/Xerxes 496-486 Xerxes I co-regency 486-475, 486 Bel-shimanni 14+/V/00 04/VI/00 xx/VI/00 “usurper” 485–485 Shamash-eriba 04/V ! /00 11/VIII/00 xx/VIII/00 “usurper” 485–485 Xerxes I 20/ V/21 14/V/21 –475 486


An astronomical tablet (BM 32234)34 contains 2 lunar eclipses and the death of Xerxes is dated 14/V. Given that the 2nd partial lunar eclipse is dated 14/VIII (November/ December) it is easy to check what year it occurred35. A complete analysis of these 2 eclipses (when they began and ended, how much area of the moon darkened. P = Partial; T = Total; N = Penumbral) enables us to keep only the year 475 BC (=–474), not dated 465 BC that’s usually agreed. #36/21g

(4) The use of “year 21” “accession year,” in either Persian or Jewish dating, agrees with the fact that no known Babylonian tablets recognize any other kings between Xerxes and Artaxerxes, though Jewish dating implies a gap before the beginning of Artaxerxes’ accession year in Egypt.

(5) The alignment of the regnal years of the same number in the Egyptian and the two Semitic calendars (attested by the synchronisms of Ptolemy’s Canon, the Saros list, double-dated papyri, and dated tablets) follows this order: Egyptian (December), Persian (spring), Jewish (fall), in the reign of
Xerxes; likewise in Artaxerxes’ reign the order is: Egyptian, followed by Persian, followed (if AP 6 has a Jewish date) by the Jewish.

(6) This alignment makes it clear that the year formula in AP 6 does not fit the Egyptian calendar, but is an exceptional but normal double formula in either the Persian or the Jewish calendars.#21h

 

According to this chronological reconstruction, during his 10th year of reign-Xerxes was co-regent of Darius I until 8 December 486 BC, then full king after this date. As the years of reign began on the 1st Thoth in Egypt at that time (early Jan.), the 11th year of Xerxes’ reign began in January 485 BC, while this 11th year began in April 485 BC in Babylon. A careful study of Egyptian documents confirms this change in Xerxes’ status.#22

 

Indeed, G. Posener notes the Egyptian title of Xerxes had changed from his Year 10 but without giving the reason. In Posener’s collection of hieroglyphic inscriptions (Posener: 1936, 92, 120-124, 162), Posener classified Persian kings according to a chronology accepted in his time. But several anomalies can be explained only by assuming a 10-year co-regency between Xerxes & Darius. In these hieroglyphs, the Egyptian pharaohs, from Amasis to Artaxerxes, are still called “Lord of the Two Lands”, except Xerxes who is called “Master of Crowns” between year 1 and year 10 of his reign. He got a legal title of “Lord of the Two Lands”- official title of the Pharaohs of Egypt, only from his year 10. If Xerxes became Pharaoh shortly after Darius’ death, he then would have received the usual title “Lord of the Two Lands;“ to designate Egyptian kings, but the title was awarded him only in his year 10. In Addition, for no known reason, the name Darius changed from year 27 up to year 36 of his reign to become inDarius. This hieroglyph in, literally meaning “contribution” in Egyptian 14 , or “booster”, can’t be a phonetic complement, as it deteriorates the pronunciation. FIG. 2 Year 2 Month I Akhet Day 9 Master of crowns, Xerxes Year 6, Master of Crowns, Xerxes Year 10, Lord of the two lands, Xerxes (Dec. 486 BC) Year 6, Lord of the two lands, Cambyses (II) Year 36, Lord of the two lands, Darius (I) Year 12, Lord of the two lands, Xerxes 14.  This hieroglyph appears in names of some pharaohs like Antef “contribution of his divine father”. It may be an abbreviation of the Egyptian word inpw “royal child”, meaning a pretender to the throne, that is a “Crown prince”. #23

 

Egyptian documents dated in both lunar and civil calendars allow absolute dates to be obtained because such date coincidences only occur every 25 years- if the lunar day is correctly observed, every 11 years with a 1-day observation error. The Aramaic documents from Elephantine, dated over the period 525-398 BC, contain 21 well identified double dates, make it possible to anchor the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes on absolute dates.

As the “double dates” are witnessed in this context we can correlate Titles that refer to Egyptian Kings like Lord of the two Lands [upper & Lower Egypt] for example, to Persian Kings Darius, Xerxes & Artaxerxes. By cross–referencing  the historical reigns of the kings, as to when they held Egyptian titles, or the King of Babylon, with Persian King’s titles, we can anchor the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes on absolute dates.

EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY THROUGH ASTRONOMICALLY DATED SYNCHRONISMS 11 TABLE 6 King of Babylon in Egypt Cambyses (II) Kambuzia K-n-b-w-d3 From 5th to 8th year King of Babylon, King of lands, Lord of the Two Lands– Darius (I) Dariawush (in)-šTi-rw-y-w-3 From 1st year to 36th year King of Babylon, King of lands, Lord of the Two Lands– Xerxes- Khisi‘arsa Ḫ-š3-y-rw-š3 From accession to 1st year- King of Babylon, King of lands? From 1st year to 10th year King of Persia & Media, King of Babylon and of lands, Master of Crowns from 10th year to 21st year King of lands, Lord of the Two Lands. The years indicated in those documents have been understood as years of reign when in fact they are years of domination (months/days usually unspecified). 23a.

 

A study showed that the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes had been shifted by 10 years with respect to astronomical dates 17 giving rise to different inter-calations during the reigns of Darius & Xerxes (Gertoux: 2018, 179-206; 2020, 273-279). From 525 BC Egypt became a Persian satrapy but most scribes were Egyptians or Jews. Persian officials at Elephantine were familiar with three kinds of lunar calendar, Elamite, Old-Persian & Babylonian. Jewish scribes  at Elephantine were familiar with different calendars, but used a calendar based on Babylonian calendars after their return to Judea from Babylon. A Babylonian chronology est. by Claudius Ptolemy was confirmed by BM 34576 tablet (King List dated 99 BC). A study of all tablets (contracts/heiroglyphs) dated from 626–331 BC was published (Parker, Dubberstein: 1956) and showed that all durations in the Achaemenid period agreed with the Babylonian royal lists, providing several short co-regencies were admitted shortly before and during an enthronement of the new king. #24

 

 Babylonian astronomers classified lunar eclipses according to an 18-year Saros cycle, as they noticed that astronomical phenomena were reproduced identically in the 19th year of the solar cycle and almost identically in the 11th year (within a day). The 19 solar years last 6939.6 days = 19×365.24219 days and correspond exactly to 19 lunar years plus 7 intercalary months,
lasting 6939.7 days = ([19×12]+7) x 29.530588 days. The 11 solar years last 4017.6 days = 11×365.24219 days and correspond to 11 lunar years plus 4 intercalary months, that last 4016.2 days = ([11×12]+4) x 29.530588 days. With these astronomical cycles the two lunar eclipses of 475 BC (1st total, 2nd partial) were reproduced in 465 BC, but in reverse order (partial then total).

 

These Repeating Matching luni-solar eclipses happen to align with the last decade of Xerxes I’ reign, that opened in 480BC. For example, the two lunar eclipses of 475 BC were exactly reproduced in 457 BC on 6th July (total) and
31 December (partial). These adjustments made by Babylonian astronomers altered times in the chronology of Artaxerxes and Xerxes’ reigns, including the Metonic cycle of the intercalary years. The 19-year cycle; a mathematical cycle synchronizing 19 lunar years with 19 solar years by adding intercalary months, a 2nd Adar mo. (XIIa) or 2nd Ulul month (VIb), in 7 years of a 19-year cycle (3A, 6A, 8A, 11A, 14A, 17U, 19A). But, this 19-year Metonic cycle, based on observations, not calculations (Steele: 2007, 121-123) and computed data in diaries (purely computational, not a combo observed & predictive methods) that appeared prior to 350 BC.#25

As the Egyptian calendar had 12 months of 30 days, plus 5 days at the end of the year (365 days), called epagomenon in Greek, it was not lunar (around 354 days). In Elephantine the main system of dating was the Egyptian calendar (civil), but as numerous religious festivals in Egypt were based on lunar phases a lunar calendar was used to fix these dates. The Jews (after 587 BC), then the Persians (after 525 BC), naturally used this calendar for their own religious festivals based on a lunar calendar (ie. Jewish Passover). As the language of administration being either Egyptian or Persian, it was necessary to convert the names of the Egyptian lunar months to the common language understood by all: Aramaic. For example, the Jews converted to Aramaic the name of the months of their Hebrew calendar: « It came about that in the 4th year of Darius (…) on the 4th [day] of the 9th month, [that is] in Kislev » (Za 7:1). There was the same situation in Egypt, for example, an Elephantine Papyri (B24) is dated: « [17] Thoth, which is 17 Kislev, year 21 (of Xerxes), accession year of Artaxerxes » (Porten: 1996, 164-165). As Xerxes died on 14/V/21 (24 August) in 475 BC, the 1st Thoth (I Akhet 1) in 475 BC is dated 20 December and 17 Thoth on 5 January 474 BC.#26

 

1st Thoth in 475 BC thus links to 20 December in Julian calendar. With astro- software (https://promenade.imcce.fr/fr/pages4/441.html), we find on 20th Dec
–474* (= 475 BC) there was a full moon at 18:20 UT (Universal Time), or at 20:30 Local Time (LT = UT + 2:10) in Elephantine. On Kislev 1 on a lunar calendar in Elephantine thus coincided with the full moon of 20 Dec. in 475 BC. To calculate the 1st Kislev (= 1/IX) of the Babylonian lunar calendar we must first calculate the 1st Tishri (1/VII) coinciding with a 1st lunar crescent after the autumnal equinox on 29 September 01:00 UT in –474*

 

(https://promenade.imcce.fr/fr/pages4/439.html).#27 The 1st astronomical lunar crescent (day after the astronomical New Moon) after 29 September is that of 8 October 22:11 UT (= 1/VII). It is possible to calculate the 1st lunar day of the following months: 7 Nov. 09:17 UT (= 1/VIII), 6 December 20:22 UT (= 1/IX). The coincidences between observed lunar days & calendar dates are thus perfect. In 475 BC (= -474*): 1 Kislimu (Babylon calendar) = 6 December (in Babylon) 1 Kislev (Egyptian lunar calendar) = 20 December (Elephantine). The 20 records from Elephantine with a double date enable us to reconstruct a chronology of the reigns of the 27th dynasty. The papyrus B23 is dated: «Year 15 [of Xerxes] 18 Elul, thus the 1st lunar day is dated a full moon in 481 BC (30 August). The 11 Pahons or I Shemu 11 fits exactly to day 11: Papyrus year Lunar date on the Egyptian calendar BC 1st lunar day Full moon Xerxes I 15 1 Elul  29 Aug. 30 Aug. Papyrus B23 15 18 Elul (= 11 + 17) 15 Sept. 481 BC.

 

The matched dates on the three intercalated calandars thus provides a perfect alignment between the Persian, Jewish and Egyptian calendars, that too align the reigns of Kings and Pharaohs in their various royal titles linked to their related kingdom, and periods of reign. With astronomically verified dating system of this caliber, it removes much confusion that has plagued history in the past, especially in light of the Repeating-Matching eclipse dates we have seen related to Purim, during the reigns of Darius 1 to Xerxes 1, in the book and time of Esther.

As always I welcome any questions you may have, through our Facebook forum of our Biblical Astronomy Fellowship.

 God Bless,

Rene’

Footnotes

1.https://www.academia.edu/44915277/Intercalations_during_the_co_regency_of_Xerxes_with_Darius_I_in_NABU_2020_4_pp_273_279?email_work_card=reading-history]
2. IBID
3. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312069819_Dating_the_reigns_of_Xerxes_and_Artaxerxes]. Gerard Gertoux. 
4. IBID
5. IBID
6. IBID
7. IBID
7a. Intercalations during the co-regency of Xerxes with Darius I, in NABU 2020-4, pp. 273-279 By Gerard GERTOUX
7b. Halley’s Bible Handbook, p. 218, Henry H. Halley
8. IBID, p. 218
8a. IBID ppg. 218-219
8b. http://www.achemenet.com/en/results/?q=Susa
8b1. https://www.livius.org/articles/place/susa/susa-photos/susa-apadana/
8c. http://www.achemenet.com/en/results/?q=Susa
8c1. IBID
8d. https://www.livius.org/sources/content/achaemenid-royal-inscriptions/xph/
8e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Zion
8f. Strong’s Concordance [#4899-mashiyach], James Strong
8g. https://www.thetorah.com/article/if-achashverosh-is-xerxes-is-esther-his-wife-amestris?
8h. Encyclopedia Judaica Glossary definition of Midrash.
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aggadah
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel
11a. https://www.onepagebiblesummary.com/pad/pad_01.php
12. Herodotus 7.61.2
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amestris
14. (Herodotus-Histories 7.61.2, 9.109-l2)
15. Prayer & Emotion in the Septuagint of Esther“ Ego, B. (2006) Esther, Brill Online.
16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amestris
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash#cite_note-9
18. https://www.thetorah.com/article/ahasuerus-and-vashti-the-story-megillat-esther-does-not-tell-you
19. https://www.thetorah.com/article/if-achashverosh-is-xerxes-is-esther-his-wife-amestris
19a. [https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/an-occlusion-of-xerxes-in-medieval-persian-epic/]
20. https://www.thetorah.com/article/if-achashverosh-is-xerxes-is-esther-his-wife-amestris
21. https://www.livius.org/articles/place/babylon/etemenanki/
21a. Fig. 3-Ziggarat of Susa-picture credit. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chogha_Zanbil#/media/File:jpg]
21b. (Parrot 1949: 37–50)  Ziggurats et Tour de Babel. Paris: Albin Michel.
21c. (Parrot 1949: 22–24.; Wiseman 1991: 71) Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
21d. (George 2005/2006: 75, 78; The Tower of Babel: Archaeology, History and Cuneiform Texts. AfOr 51: 75–95. (Allinger-Csollich 1998: 290–94).
21e. (Frankford 1970: 79) The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. 4th edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin
21f.  (George 2005/2006: 75, 77, 78, 79, 86; Allinger-Csollich 1998: 290–94). The Tower of Babel: Archaeology, History and Cuneiform Texts. AfOr 51: 75–95.
21.g [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312069819_Dating_the_reigns_of_Xerxes_and_Artaxerxes]. Gerard Gertoux
21h. IBID
22. IBID
23. (Posener: 1936, 92, 120-124, 162) Posener’s collection of hieroglyphic inscriptions 
23a. (Posener: 1936, 92, 120-124, 162)
24. BABYLONIAN CHRONOLOGY, 626 B.C.-A.D. 75 Parker, Dubberstein: 1956
25. (Rochberg-Halton: 1991, 107-120). 
26. Bezalel Porten – The Elephantine Papyri in English
27. (https://promenade.imcce.fr/fr/pages4/439.html) https://about.jstor.org/terms XERXES AND THE BOOK OF ESTHER-LITTMAN

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Biblical Archaeo-Astronomy of Blood Moon Tetrads and Ancient Cultures

 

Biblical Archaeo-Astronomy of Blood Moon Tetrads and Ancient Cultures.

Welcome to the July 2024 Blog post! This is a special month as it marks the 10th Anniversary of this Blog that I initiated back in 2014! With over 150 blog posts on various topics related to Biblical Astronomy in the last 10 years, we have been blessed to develop a loyal following of readers and participants from around the globe. I love and am very passionate about this unique Christian Ministry work, and remain humbled and Thankful to my Heavenly Father for His Infinite Love, Grace and inspiration to Bless God’s People! The impetus for this blog grew out of the original website [Try-god.com] that we put together in 2002-3, based on the teachings and seminars related to the Birth of Christ, and The Celestial Prelude. I will always be grateful to my dear friend & brother in Christ, Paul Viarengo, for his love and generosity in helping me to establish and support this website, which remains a key asset and research archive. In the last few years I’m most thankful and grateful to and for Rev. Jon Nessle, his teachings, support and his example are invaluable contributions to this field of Bible research, along with his scientific background and prowess. I’m honored to accept his invitation to serve and teach with him, Ren Manetti and Roberto & Diane Martinez in The Next Reformation Church. Our outreach activities include a weekly Tune-in-Tuesday forum, and a recent roadshow as we served and taught together on the Celestial Gospel Seminar this past April for the Northeastern CFF Believers in New Jersey! Keep your eyes open for more efforts like this down the road…

To honor our 10th anniversary, and for the sake of context it is helpful to revisit some of the Celestial events that opened this blog in 2014. A primary topic of conversation in that period was the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015. This of course raised interest in the previous Blood Moon Tetrads during the inception of the State of Israel in 1949-50, and the 6-day war of 1967 when Israel reclaimed control of Jerusalem for the 1st time in near 2000 years. A respected commentator and Blood Moon teacher; Mark Biltz  noted that after the 1st Blood Moon of 2014 there was an initial invasion of Ukraine by Russia, ISIS Advances, a 2-month war between Israel and Gaza, an Ebola Plague, an overthrow of Yemen, economic meltdowns and middle East upheaval. Many of these types of events were not only repeated in 2021-2022, but remain in the news headlines today!

The Season of Repentance is the call to repent before the Day of the Lord. Jewish tradition says those who are written in the Book of Life (the saved) will be resurrected on the Feast of Trumpets. The undecided and evil ones will then have time to repent during the time of judgment that ends at the Day of Atone-ment. The period of time between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atone-ment is representative of the seven years of the Tribulation. It is fitting then that the Great American eclipse of such significance marks the the Season of Repentance. It was another sign pointing towards the significance of 2017 as it relates to the return of Christ, in comparison with the Alpha/Omega or Aleph-Tav; as the first and last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet embody the Great American Eclipses crossing America, from 2017-2024.

Joel 2:25-32 and Acts 2:16-27 prophecies of solar and lunar eclipses are note-worthy since solar eclipses are considered a sign for the Gentile nations of the world, while lunar eclipses are more significant for Israel. This aligns with God’s classification of people on earth into 3 groups; Jews, Gentiles & the Church of God.

There was another total solar eclipse that occurred on March 20, 2015. At the center point between the Blood Moon lunar eclipses of the 2014-15 Tetrad, it occurs before the religious new year begins on Nisan 1 (March 21). This eclipse was visible in the North Atlantic occurring in the constellation Pisces. Pisces speaks of the Redeemer’s People or us. Here there is a solar eclipse that took place 888 days before the Season of Repentance 2017. 888 is the number of our Redeemer’s name in Greek–Jesus.

The Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-15 opened with a Passover Lunar Eclipse on 4/15/2014. Prior to the 4/4/2015 Passover Blood Moon, a unique Total Solar Eclipse occurred on March 20th, at the Spring Equinox, marking the start of the Hebrew month of Nisan, to open the ecclesiastical year, at the midpoint of their Shemitah year in 2015. Any Total solar eclipse reaching the rarefied air of the North Pole is unequalled, with the path of this Solar Eclipse ending at the Pole, putting it within Eclipse totality for near 2 minutes. A total solar eclipse at the North Pole on the Spring Equinox takes place only about once every 100 centuries, but it never happened on Nisan 1 in Hebrew Timekeeping, especially when seen with a Super-moon, putting this Total Solar eclipse in a class by itself. A chart of Blood Moon Tetrads over the last 2000+ years is available in our blog post @ Biblical Blood Moon Calendar.

This March 20th  eclipse in 2015 was indeed a special one. While comparing historical eclipse data on the Spring Equinox; we found a solar eclipse (not at the North Pole) on March 20, 71 AD, also on Nisan 1 on the Hebrew Calendar.#1 Only months before the eclipses in 71 AD, Jerusalem’s Temple was attacked and destroyed. This Temple destruction occurred on the infamous 9th of Av in 70′ AD. In spite of prince Titus’ strict orders to his Roman Legions not to harm the Temple, it was “accidentally” set on fire and consumed. On August 5th, AD. 70, bloody scars on smoking ruins mark dire scenes of daily offerings ceased in Israel on 7/13/70′ AD, for lack of able-bodied priests to Sacrifice. This was recorded–at a noted time in history when Jerusalem’s Temple was destroyed by fire.

The Total Solar Eclipse on March 20th, 2015, was not only unique because it took place at the North Pole, but also because it fell right in the middle of this Blood Moon Tetrad. Much has been written about the position and timing of this total solar eclipse, but taking place in the center of this Tetrad is a key, when we view how the 2016 solar and lunar eclipses link the 2014-15 Blood Moon Tetrad to the Rev. 12 sign of Sept 23, 2017. The year of 2016 also saw a mirroring of solar and lunar eclipses in 70 AD. Not only are the solar and lunar eclipses mirrored exactly as seen in Table 1 below in 70/2016, but a Rev. 12 sign is also reflected in the center of the 70′ solar and lunar eclipses, on 8/27/70, three weeks after the destruction and burning of Jerusalem’s Temple by Titus on the 9th of Av.

The final Super Blood Moon of the 2014-15 Blood Moon Tetrad occurred after the Hebrew 50-year Jubilee on the Day of Atonement, Sept. 23rd, 2015, just 2 years prior to the Rev. 12 sign on 9/23/2017. This is notable as the 9/28/15 Super Blood Moon was the 1st Blood Moon of the 2014-2015 Tetrad that was visible in Jerusalem, as the city of God was liberated by Israel for the first time in near 2000 years in the preceding Jubilee year of 1967, marked too by the previous Blood Moon Tetrad of 1967-68. As we consider this feature of visibility over Jerusalem, we find it upheld with each of the lunar triples bracketing the 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad, as a 2nd Blood Moon of both lunar triples was also visible over Jerusalem. This directly links the 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad and the eclipses of 2016 to the 70′ AD razing of the Jerusalem Temple.

Figure 1. Lunar Triples in 2010-11 and 2018-19 bracketing the 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad. #2

Jesus On My Mind - Blood Moon Tetrads and Triples and Solar Eclipses

As the 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad of the end days was centered between the saddest days on Israel’s Calendar, the days of Av marked by Lunar Triples in 2010-11 and 2018-19, as seen above they recall the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple on two key occasions in their history, one we have highlighted below, with the 69-71 AD solar and lunar eclipses, marking the Roman Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. It is notable that the triple union of Jupiter-Regulus in Leo, marking Christ’s birth in 3-2 BC, is set here, as the next Jupiter-Regulus union didn’t recur till 10-15-69 AD, #3 opening to the Partial Lunar Eclipse on Sukkot on 10/18/69′, seen in Table 1 below.

The year 2015 has another date of interest. Yom Kippur 2015 proves to be 2,520 exact weeks from June 7, 1967 when Israel won the Temple Mount. This is also expressed as 49/360-day years. However, in counting these days, Yom Kippur 2015 is an exact 700 days before Elul 1, 2017 and the Season of Repentance. On an added note, there is another total eclipse on March 9, 2016 …[This March 9th date aligns with the Roman’s Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD, with very similar celestial signs in the sky.

2000 years of Blood Moon Tetrad history marked by Peter’s Sermon to open the Age of Grace, [Acts 2:20] have seen Jesus’ foretelling Israel’s Bible and Celestial Prophecy Plan of a Destruction of Jerusalem’s Temple, sealed in solar and lunar eclipses, fulfilled in 70 AD. We saw the Jews dispersed the world over, returning to Israel’s Reformed State, in 1948-50 marked by a Blood Moon Tetrad. In 1967-68 another Blood Moon Tetrad stamped the 6-day war with Egypt, and Jerusalem’s first reclaiming under Israeli control, since 70 AD, all leading to a next prophecy to rebuild a Third Jerusalem Temple. A chart of the Blood Moon Tetrads over the last 2000 years is found in our blog @ Biblical Blood Moon Calendar. The summary below from this link, shows Jesus’ Prophecy of Rome’s 70 AD Destruction of the Temple, mirroring the 2016 Solar and Lunar Eclipses.

Table 1.

Solar & Lunar Eclipses from 69-71 AD.         2016 Solar & Lunar Eclipses omitting Adar 2:

Jupiter-Regulus triple union    10/15/69       #1 in Leo the Lion

Partial Lunar      Sukkot             10/18/69

Jupiter-Regulus Conjunction    12/30/69     #2

Total Solar           Nisan 1              3/30/70     Total Solar Eclipse 3/9/2016 

Penum lunar       Passover          4/14/70      Penumbral Lunar Eclipse-3/23/2016/Nisan 14

Jupiter-Regulus Conjunction     6/7/70       #3

Temple destroyed by Titus        8/5/70        9th of Av, 70 AD in Age of Grace opened by Peter citing Joel 2 @ Pentecost 28′ AD.

Rev. 12 Sign of the Woman       8/27/70      in Virgo

Annular Solar     Rosh Hash    9/23/70      Annular Solar Eclipse 9/3/2016/Trumpets Feast 

Penum lunar        Sukkot         10/08/70    Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Sukkot/9-16 to 9/23/16

Partial Lunar       Purim             3/4/71      Partial Lunar Eclipse

Total Solar            Nisan 1         3/20/71     Total Solar Eclipse

These dates may look familiar to those following this Biblical Astronomy Blog [blog.try-god.org], as the first 2 Total Solar Eclipses of 2016 form the continuation of Solar and Lunar signs on Hebrew Feast and Holy days after the Blood Moons of 2014-15. Due to a lack of consensus on the ripeness of Aviv Barley in Israel, the alignment of these solar eclipses with Hebrew Feast and Holy days went mostly unnoticed in 2016. But they are key as they represent a direct link to the Aug. 21st, 2017 Pan-Am Total Solar eclipse. A key detail about the 2nd Blood Moon of each lunar triple bracketing the 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad was its visible over Jerusalem. This provides a direct link with Blood Moon Tetrad to the razing of the Jerusalem Temple in Hebrew Sabbath years of 586-587 BC and 69-70 AD. King Nebuchadnezzar burnt the Temple in 587-586 BC [2 Chron. 36:17-20], and it was burnt again 69-70 AD, by Titus and his Roman legions. In both cases Jerusalem lay desolate for the next 50 years on the Jubilee Calendar. #4

The solar and lunar eclipses marking the 69-70 AD destruction of Jerusalem’s Temple, 70 AD was the last year Jerusalem was under control of Israel until the Blood Moon Tetrad of 1967-68. The Luni–Solar Eclipses of 2016 mirror the 69-70 AD solar and lunar eclipses exactly on holy days & Hebrew feasts. Its also noteworthy that the triple union of Jupiter-Regulus marking the birth of Christ in 3BC, is linked to the Temple destruction in Jerusalem foretold by Christ [Matt. 24:1-2], since the next Jupiter-Regulus conjunction did not recur until Oct. 15th, 69 AD. #5

By putting these birth signs of Christ together with the physical Temple being destroyed, it recalls Jesus’ words in [Jn. 2:19-20] where Jesus links the Temple’s destruction, wherein he was standing when he said “destroy this temple,” with the “temple of his body.” Christ embodied the Temple in two aspects; first as the Bride of Israel when he spoke this prophecy, then a New Covenant Gentile Church in Christ, communing with the Heavenly Father in spirit after the Day of Pentecost in the Age of Grace, [Eph. 2:11-22]. Since Jesus superseded the physical Temple in his Spiritual body–the Church, the Jerusalem Temple on the Mount will not be seen again until its daily sacrifices are restored prior to Jesus’ 2nd Coming. The 69-70 AD solar and lunar eclipses marked Rome’s destruction of the Temple, by Titus mirrored in soli-lunar eclipses of 2016, that lead to the 2017 rewind of the Great Wonder of Rev. 12:1-2. Amazingly, another version of this Rev. 12 celestial wonder occurred on August 27th, in 70 AD, between the 4/14/70 Passover Lunar Eclipse, and the 9/23/70 Rosh Hashanah Solar Eclipse!

Figure 2. The Rev. 12 sign on August 27th, 70 AD: With a Jupiter-Venus union, in the hind paw of Leo the Lion. #6

The woman-Virgo has a crown of 12 stars, with Jupiter and Venus in so close a union, they appear to merge into one star as in 2 BC, but this time in the lower rear paw of Leo. The Sun clothes Virgo and the Moon at her feet. The planets Jupiter and Venus are also aligned with Mercury-Gabriel in Leo’s other hind paw, and the King Star-Regulus in Leo. What is unique with this version of the Rev. 12 Sign is that it occurs in the midst of solar and lunar eclipses falling on Hebrew Feast days as they also marked the 70 AD Temple’s destruction in Jerusalem.

These 2016 Lunar Eclipses followed the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015 that totaled 6 Lunar Eclipses in 3 consecutive years on Hebrew Feast days, adding weight to the Four Blood Moons! As we consider the import of these Penumbral Lunar Eclipses in 2016, we should point out the similarity to the Penumbral Lunar Eclipses in 70 AD marking the Romans’ destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. The following chart from our Biblical Blood Moon Calendar blog shows the 70 AD Roman Temple Destruction as Jesus Prophesied, [Matt. 24:1-2].

It is notable that if the ripe Barley determination was made before the Total Solar Eclipse on March 9th, 2016 it will also have aligned on NISAN 1, even as the linked sign on 3/30/70 AD! This comparison of Solar and Lunar signs of 70 AD and 2016 is truly remarkable! Also, as we mentioned in the Purim Blood Moon post, 71 AD was the last Lunar Eclipse on Purim found in the intervening period until 3/22/2016. The noted parallel here is that these Solar and Lunar signs marked the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD, while today we are looking for the return of a Third Temple in Jerusalem as the next step to fulfill Biblical Prophecy, to establish Israel’s reclamation of Jerusalem as seen in the 1967-68′ Blood Moon Tetrad, in the 6-day War with Egypt. Thus we see note the history of these Solar and Penumbral Lunar Eclipses in 2016 as they align in the only other Sun and Moon signs on Hebrew Feast Days that did not cluster as Blood Moon Tetrads over the last 2000 years!

As we consider the Archaeo-Astronomy of ancient world cultures in light of their various associated forms of astrology, we will view how these systems have survived into the modern world. With this in mind, what does a regular deck of playing cards have in common with the El Castillo Pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico?

Figure 3. El Castillo Pyramid at Chichen Itza. #7

mayan pyramid

The Maya were ruthless devotee’s of human sacrifice, whose culture was ruled by its Astrology, controlling every aspect of their timekeeping, which organized their lives. As the Mayan priests prepared the human sacrifice, they astrology them to subdue any resistance to their jupiter and saturn of precious stone, nearly hard as mayan pyramid, to cut out the victim’s human sacrifice. This secondary comparison to playing cards however belies a more prominent one upon closer inspection. As we find compelling evidence revealing a surprising link to the roots of astrology not only in the origin of Mayan timekeeping practices, but many ancient calendars in general.

The structure of a deck of playing cards is based on 4 suits, reflected above, of 13 cards each, that when the numbers 1-13 are added, equal 91. The same pattern is seen in the El Castillo Pyramid, with 4 flights of 91 stairs, leading up to the altar at the pinnacle of the Pyramid. These 4 suits of 13 cards when multiplied equal 52, corresponding to the number of weeks in a year of our Gregorian Calendar, whose reflection is seen in the Maya Tzolkin Calendar of 52 years. We find further calendar links in the total of 91 pyramid steps, equaling the number of days per season, times 4 flights totaling 364, corresponding to the number of days in the year–365, when the Joker Card is added. As the altar caps off the Pyramid’s pinnacle, the four flights of stairs, make a total of 365. The 52-year Maya Tzolkin calendar consisted of four 13-year periods, each symbolized by  one of five spirit-heads, four of which correlated to the Cardinal Directions, while the 5th linked to the center or apex of the circle in the Calendar Round, representing the Earth. This picture of the El Castillo Pyramid agrees with the figure of the Great Pyramid on the Giza plateau, which was designed as a 1 to 43,200 geometric scale model, of planet Earth. Thus, we get the idea that the pyramid represented not only our planet, but also its seasons and timekeeping practices of these pyramid-building cultures that produced them. The calendars that emerged from these cultures also looked to unify the solar and lunar cycles into a comprehensive system of temporal and spatial order. The face cards of the deck represent the day-gods of the Maya Calendar, designed to rule over the temporal and spiritual order of Mayan culture, typified in the structure of their pyramids and calendars. The deck of playing cards was probably structured as a memory system for this classic luni-solar calendar.

Figure 4. Ouroboros Serpent #8

An ouroboros or uroboros serpent snake consuming its own tail circle in a vintage woodcut style

We can trace also the origin of the number 666 from Astrology. The Zodiac is a narrow band about 18 degrees in width making a complete circuit of the sky around the earth, symbolized in pagan art by a serpent whose body formed a circle. The serpent named Ouroboros swallowed his own tail in his mouth as a symbol of self destruction. Astrology taught that the fate of mankind was always decided by the position of the stars. Now the fatalistic astrology of the chief gods of the Zodiac were the 7 fate-controlling planets who wound their way through the 36 rooms of the Zodiac. As the 7 planets travel through the narrow band of the zodiac at varying speeds —symbolized as a seven-headed serpent (Rev. 12:3), they dictated the fate of entire cultures and nations. The Zodiac band was divided into 12 houses, one for each month of the year, and each house was divided into three rooms, with 36 rooms/ decans in all, one for each 10 degrees of the Zodiac circle. This counterfeit heavenly order is the astrological basis of our present method of time-keeping. For example, the clockface– derived from the 12 houses of the Zodiac, as the original Heavenly Clock, whereby today we measure time, even as our ruler has 12 inches to a foot, determining our spatial dimensions.

Figure 5. Roulette Wheel #9

Tuhaf düğüm İsa european roulette wheel Tablet Sulama İkna edici

The original Roulette wheels have a 360-degree circle with 36 divisions of 10 degrees each, with a blank or zero division to represent the 5 days beyond the 360 days in a year. There are 36 numbered cards in a 52 card deck. One card each represents the 52 weeks with 12 face cards, 4 Kings, 4 Queens, and 4 Jacks, and 4 suits that represent the four seasons. Why do fortune-tellers use a deck of cards to predict the future? Because the deck of cards derives from Astrology.  Our present townships are composed of 36 square miles because, as several writers point out, the ancients divided the earth according to the divisions in the sky. Just as our 12-inch ruler was once a symbol of the 12-house Zodiac, so our 36-inch yardstick based upon the 36 rooms into which the heavenly houses are divided. Also, the remainder of the sky outside the Zodiac band was also divided into 36 constellations, 15 on the south side and 21 on the north side. A god of each constellation was set up to rule over one of the 36 rooms of the Zodiac. Every star in the sky was viewed as a god in the abode of departed spirits included in a constellation, and over whom a god was set up who ruled over a Zodiac room. Each Zodiac house-god ruled over a month of the year, and the 7 planetary house gods regulated, the celestial order and the affairs of mankind via this Astrology, by their relative positions in the various rooms of the Zodiac. The Sun-god ruled over them all (the All-Seeing Eye) who was envisioned as the central fire, from which each had sprung. Pagans believed that all other gods were but emanations of the Sun-god. In their numerology 1, 6, 12, 36, 111, and 666 were the most sacred numbers in Astrology. Like the Roulette Wheel, the charts divided into 36 numbered sections, or [magic squares]. There were six columns in all directions with the numbers 1 to 36 placed inside the entire chart. Any direction you add the columns, they total 111. There are six squares in each column and 6 x 111 = 666. If you add all digits from 1 to 36 they will total 666. So, the number 36 was a sacred number that identified with the 36 room-gods of the Zodiac, and the number 666 was a summary number of the Sun-god, because it was his sacred number as the ruler of the Zodiac. Thus it was not a coincidence that the earth’s axis is tilted 23.4 degrees from vertical which is 66.6 degrees from hortizontal. [Obliquity cycle] #10

Thus the number 36 was a sacred number that was linked to the 36 room-gods of the Zodiac, and the number 666 was a summary number of the Sun-god, and his sacred number as the ruler of the Zodiac. This was an archetypal blueprint of how the enemy counterfeited the original Celestial Gospel, by substituting his astrology for the foundations of the Creator’s Biblical Astronomy, going back to the Tower of Babel., where the original one language of humanity was confused by God to prevent the enemy’s One world unity based on Astrology as the counterfeit of The Creator’s Celestial Gospel.

The primary temporal symbol in Mesoamerican myth, as in other ancient cultures was the snake who swallowed it own tail. We find in this circular snake, a symbol of cyclic time depicted below in the concentric Calendar Wheel, where the outer wheel shows the 52-year cycle of the Maya Calendar, divided into 13 renditions of the four year cycles [13 x 4=52] known as [rabbit, house, cane & reed]. We noted these elements in our earlier comparison, of the  structures of the El Castillo Pyramid and the common deck of playing cards. The four circles in the Serpent’s body relate to the four Cardinal Directions of the calendar, embodied in four of the Mayan spirit heads.

Figure 6. Maya Concentric Calendar Wheel #11

cirular snake calendat wheel


The graphic above conforms to the Egyptian serpentine image of the Sothic Calendar arranged, according to the four Cardinal Directions, as the serpent head swallows its own tail, with scales symbolizing the stars of heaven. This Egyptian picture of the Sothic Calendar shows a reconciliation between the 360° circle with the 365-days of the calendar year. Encircled in the serpent’s coils at the cardinal points, are the 4 Egyptian gods Sothis/Sirius, Isis, Osiris & Horus, each presiding over a cycle of 365 years which totaled the 1461–year cycle when the rising of the star Sirius aligned with the Sunrise. This idea links to the 260-day tzolkin calendar of the Maya, because the Sothic Calendar also conforms to the 260-day pattern [260 x 1461] that equals 365.25 x 1040 days.

 This provides another depiction of the world monomyth cropping up in cultures with no direct physical contact,  appearing at different points in history, yet sharing universal archetypes of archaeo-astronomy based on truths of a common celestial myth.

Like the ancient Egyptians, the Maya pyramid-building culture of ancient Mexico had a very advanced Astronomy. They also regularly divided their year into 360 days, called a “tun” and added 5 extra days, called “haab,” considered an unlucky period. According to Peter Thompkins, Maya also “calculated the orbit of the Earth about the Sun as 365.2420 days, and marked the close of the year by the erection of a stone they called a tun. They did likewise for a twenty- year cycle or Katun, a period they considered to be governed by the Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn.“#121

 The history of Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction cycles was also recognized in close association to the precession of the equinoxes in the Hebrew cosmology seen in Genesis 1:6-10, along the world-views of many ancient cultures including, Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece and the Meso–Americans. Peter Thompkins continues by saying that; “The Maya had a very special sacred year of 260 days called tzolkin, that the Aztecs called tonalamatl.” This 260-day sacred calendar was “divided into 13 months of 20 days, and the multiples of 13 and 20 became the heart of a chronological computation stunning in its simplicity and exactness. A greater cycle of 260 years was 13 consecutive Jupiter-Saturn cycles of 20 years.”#132 

The greater 260-year cycle based on the Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction, cycle was also a tool utilized by the Mayans to break down the extra long cycle of the precession of the equinoxes. Thompkins states that the “Maya also had a cycle of 942,890 days, or 2,582 years, that turned out to be 130 Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions.”#143 Twice this cycle [5,163 years], not only gave the equivalent of the greater 260-year cycle of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions, but 100 of these greater 260-year cycles equaled 26,000 years, often reckoned the length of the precession. With Kepler’s Trigon, the Mayan tzolkin, and the Egyptian Sothic Calendar, we have three culturally distinct and seemingly independent views of how Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions subdivided the precession. The amazing visual similarity between the Mayan tzolkin wheel, that preceded Kepler’s geometric structure of the Trigon by centuries, is also worth noting, especially in how both calendars include a reference to the lunar cycles according to the base 60 number system. This provides an ancient basis and foundation on the Sexegesimal, earth-commensurate standard based on precession, from the Mayan culture. The Kepler Trigon unfolds the pattern of the clock face of the precession, opening a new precessional age on average every 2160 years, with the close approach of Jupiter and Saturn to the vernal point. In this division of the precession into manageable parts, we can see how the luni-solar cycle, governed by the phi ratio, depicts the universal cosmic order based on precessional number factors ruling their calendar, was reflected in their monumental architecture.

Figure 7. Kepler’s Trigon #15

ancient maya civilization

We gain true insight into the stellar revelation the Almighty Creator invested into His Celestial Gospel as we witness the mathematical precision of luni-solar and planetary astro–cyles, patterned to the Pi and Phi ratios. Cultural traditions of the world have spawned their astrologies as counterfeit views of the original truths of Biblical Archaeo-Astronomy. that diverged from the authentic principles of the Messianic Prophecies of the Celestial Gospel in favor of cultural idols of astrology and conventional views of Archaeology, and Archaeo-Astronomy, to support these false views. The Conventional wisdom of archaeology has been to view the results of the digs and sites, from their mainline historical view of the culture and society that produced it, with various regional influences considered. Although a portion of attention has been focused on societal religion, and the religious context and practices that produced these sites, conventional wisdom would benefit if more attention was focused on the principles of the world monomyth, by Joseph Campbell in this context. As stated, our position is in general agreement with Campbell’s idea of the world monomyth [The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949] that names Christ as a prime example among others, of the universal hero setting the pattern upon which all cultural hero’s have been formed.#16

We can also trace the Archaeo-Astronomy of ancient cultures going back to the Tower of Babel that were first based on the tenets of the Celestial Gospel but became corrupted in the Babel’s ancient astrology [Gen. 11:1-9]. We can also track the Babylonian name for their temporal cycle involving the Moon’s eclipse cycle, or period of lunation, which is called a saros rooted in the Hebrew word [zera]. This period of lunation lasts 18 years and 11, (10.96) days. Mathematics in modern times defines, zero is the absence of quantity, the point where a constant function changes its sign from positive to negative, (or the spiritual to the physical). Practically, this transition between the physical and spiritual realms is embodied in Jesus Christ, who is the apex and crown of Creation. He is the point of access to God-the Heavenly Father and as the Word made flesh, he is seated on his throne at the right hand of God, at the utmost pinnacle of the cosmos. [Eph. 2:4-8]

Due in part to the importance of Astronomy in ancient culture, and the star religions that formed around ancient timekeeping and celestial science, our view is the astronomical myth and tradition linked to ancient Star religions, is a primary and universal key to understanding the inner workings of cultural archetypes. Biblical Archaeo-Astronomy is of special and unique value here, because of the message and blueprint it carries in the celestial prophecies of Christ, as seen in the planetary unions surrounding the Star of Bethlehem, marking Christ’s birth, unlocking the keys of Biblical Astronomy. The primary caveat here of course, is that based on the Creator’s Intelligent Design, the celestial and angelic signs of the birth of Christ are viewed as direct messages from the Creator’s Throne-room regarding the long awaited appearance of Christ-God’s Only Begotten Son.

One of the many tenets of Biblical Archaeo-Astronomy is to focus on how numerous star religions have deviated from the original message concerning Christ, the ultimate Hero, written in the Heavens. Basic forms of Astrology that emerged during this process of corruption were documented in our website study on “Biblical Astronomy vs. Astrology,” providing important background on this specific study. As opposed to understanding star religions in a skewed light of the exclusivity of cultural contexts, that only blind their adherents to their idol practices. We prefer an inductive Scriptural approach seen in Rom. 1: 22-25, which enlightens us as to how Astrology has corrupted and hidden key Scriptural truths from coming to the surface, since they have changed God’s truth into lies, worshipping and serve the Creation more than the Creator. Our focus is to shed new light on these practices, preferably based on principles akin to the original, more ancient Astronomy, from which idol astrology first deviated. In the process we will notice common points that come to light, as these star religions venerated idol relics in place of the original Hero, [Acts 7:43].

The Authentic Protevangelium was the Witness of the Stars. The Celestial Gospel of the Coming Hero-Redeemer: Jesus Christ, was the 1st Gospel written from God to Man. The the signs of the zodiac were the first symbol–heralds of a Coming Redeemer, whom we would know based on the written Messianic prophecies. From the first prophecy of the Promised Seed [Gen. 3:15] the woman’s seed was spoken as the one to bruise the serpent with a terminal death blow to its head. Rev. 12:4 below reveals the central goal of the adversary, “to devour the woman’s child as soon as it was born.” We witness this intent in Herod’s slaughter of infants born nearest when the Magi’s star first appeared over Bethlehem. All of Biblical history revolves around this conflict between the two seeds; the seed of the woman and the serpent’s seed. Just as the “woman” has a dual fulfillment, so the symbolism in reference to the serpent–dragon in Rev. 12 changes also.

Revelation 12: 3-5
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven”- “Another” is a Greek word indicating that this heavenly wonder was different from that described in Rev. 12:1. As a first heavenly wonder noted a woman of the Constellation Virgo, so this second heavenly wonder, though different from Virgo, was still a celestial sign.

‘and behold a great red dragon‘– Although there are several potential celestial candidates for this sky dragon, including Hydra which also spans a third of the stars of the ecliptic with its massive size, it becomes apparent that Draco is the sign that is referred to in its initial significance in Revelation. This is the first of 13 occurrences of the Greek word “drakon“ in the book of Revelation, with the first eight uses of this word here in Rev. 12, [Rev. 12:3,4,7,7, 9,13,16,17, Rev. 13:2, 4,11, Rev. 16:13, 20:2]. The number thirteen is symbolic of rebellion and the dragon embodies the idea of spiritual warfare in the heavens. As we inspect the details of the Biblical record of Revelation 12, the characteristics of Draco the dragon come to the surface. The first incidence of the word “Dragon” in Rev. 12:3 are focused traits of Draco over the other names of the adversary in Rev. 12:9. As a result of the war in heaven, the dragon and his 3rd of the heavenly angels were cast down to the earth. This was depicted astronomically as a meteor shower in 3 BC, that curiously coincides with the events surrounding the birthday of Jesus Christ.

Figure 8. The October 8th Giacobinid Meteor shower of 2000. #17

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R.H. Allen was one of the first I’m aware of that linked the casting down of the dragon and his angels to a meteor shower. The meteor shower in question originated from the Dragon at the North pole, tied to its parent comet known as the Giacobini-Zinner Comet.

I was not aware of the idea of this specific Meteor shower being linked to the second celestial wonder of Rev. 12, until I listened a teaching by Jon Nessle regarding the Eta-Draconid Meteors correlated with the birth of Christ.

 According to Rev. Nessle, there are actually 3 sets of Draconid meteors, two of which show a radiant or origin, from the star Eta-Draconis. One of these stars is viewed as the greater and the other the lesser of the Eta-Draconids. It is the lesser of these two that occurred during the period of Sept. 9th-12th in 3 BC. #18

A defining factor of this Meteor shower is that the lesser Eta-Draconids are best viewed at sunset, or in the early evening, while most Meteor showers are best seen later at night, as stated in the excerpt below from the October 2nd, 98’ Weekly News Bulletin of Sky & Telescope;

“On the evening of Oct. 8th, debris from the Periodic Comet Giacobini-Zinner/  21P may provide a stunning sky show. The Giacobinid Meteor shower turned out two of the best Meteor displays of the 20th century in 1933 and 1946. Lesser showers arrived in 1926, 1952, & 1985. Unlike most Meteor showers the Giacobinids are at their best in the evening as opposed to after midnight. Their radiant is in the tail of the Constellation Draco. This point is highest right after dark at mid-northern latitudes; it moves lower throughout the night and is near the horizon by dawn.”#19

This fact alone showing the meteors falling from their radiant in the dragon’s tail as the dragon sign itself descends from the upper reaches of the sky to the earthly horizon in the dawning of a new day, when Christ was born, to enact the casting down and descent of the dragon’s power, on the Sept. 11th birth of Christ. Since this new day began at sunset in the Hebrew Calendar, the first moments of the birth time of the promised seed were revealed with the setting star Spica, about 20 minutes after Sunset in Virgo. The graphic of Draco at the celestial North Pole below [Plate III] depicts the head & body of the dragon inside the northern polar circle, with the dragon’s tail starting with the star Thuban, outside of the polar circle.

Figure 9. Draco the Dragon and the North Astronomical pole, from the Star Atlas of Hevelius. 20

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Also shown is Cepheus the Crowned King with Polaris, the pole star, between his feet. Since the star Eta-Draconis is located below the serpent’s head near the ecliptic North pole, with Thuban in the dragon’s tail, as the equatorial pole star, it symbolizes the dragon’s dominion, both as the original morning star and the god of this world. We should note that though the north-pole of the Equator  was wrested from the dragon, via the precession of the poles, he retains sway over the pole of the ecliptic, the celestial axis around which the equatorial pole revolves. This is a still point in the heavens near the core of the Dragon, and the Cat’s Eye Nebula [NGC 6543] between the stars Grumium and Chi Draconis. Notes of interest regarding the star Grumium, also spelled Grumian, meaning “subtle or deceiver,” as Denning: “views the radiant of the Meteor flow seen about the 29th of May, also named the Draconids,”#21 as one of 3 distinct Meteor showers from Draco, this being the sole whose radiant was not Eta-Draconis. In Figure 10 below, 3 second magnitude stars in the dragon’s head  are readily visible, with a red star-Thuban in the dragon‘s tail. The testimony of this dragon sign embodies the enemy cast down, including other categories of the spirit realm seen in this meteor shower, framing the birth of Christ. Although the casting down of the dragon occurred in the 1st Heaven and Earth, [2 Pet. 3:5-7] in the deep past before human history, the Dragon’s fall  with his minions was not a foregone conclusion, until Christ was resurrected and Ascended. This is one aspect of the Rev. 12 record, that shows it is not in chronological order. With the birth of Christ, the prophecy of the dragon’s doom in [Gen. 3:15] was tied to promised seed for the first time.

This Meteor shower from September 9th-11th 3 BC, marking the birth of the ascending Morning star, shows most clearly this transition of heavenly and earthly power, tolling the death knell of Draco’s dominion. The occurrence of this Meteor shower at sunset was another sign of confirmation that would have drawn the Magi’s focus to sunset, as the time of day to be watchful for the celestial signs marking the birth of Christ.

Figure 10. Draco the Dragon at the Celestial North Pole. #22

This Eta-Draconid Meteor shower during the birth of Christ also links to the planet Saturn, tying the Jupiter-Saturn triple conjunction of 7 BC to the Jupiter-Regulus triple union in Leo in 3BC. This first Jupiter link was based on the retrograde motion and triple unions of Jupiter, 4 years apart. Saturn is also tied to the star Eta-Draconis in its regular transit across the Meridian, at midnight of May 23rd, filed for centuries occurring only 3 days before the 1st Jupiter-Saturn triple union, May 27th of 7 BC. This binds the 1st Jupiter-Saturn Triple conjunction to a series of celestial signs marking Christ’s birth from 3-1 BC, opening with the May 19th, 3 BC Mercury-Saturn union. This not only adds a conclusive celestial bond with the Celestial Prelude signs in 7-5 BC with Christ’s birth signs in 3-1 BC, but also ties Draco vertical at the north pole with the Jupiter-Saturn triple conjunctions, on the ecliptic, showing the casting down of Draco from his high perch at the North Pole to a horizontal position on the ecliptic, where he has a prime view of the secrets of the pit, [Isa. 14:15]. This linkage with the planet Saturn and the star Eta-Draconis is focused on the initial dominion & first estate of the dragon at the pinnacle of the 1st heavens and earth. But the Meteor shower shows the dragon cast down at sunset, in the twilight of his dominion. The Eta-Draconid Meteors encircle the birth of Christ on 9/11, and led to the 1st triple union of Jupiter-Regulus in Leo, on 9/14th. This September 14th date is key for at least three reasons. First, it fell within the annual twenty-day period when Virgo is clothed with the Sun. Secondly, it initiates Saturn’s 13-year ring cycle, and 3rd it seals a 1st Jupiter-

Regulus Conjunction in Leo in 3 BC. Since this Planetary union was visible to the Magi, as early as the 11th of September, the meteors were already falling from their perch high in the northern sky, signifying the dragon cast down & his third of the stars of heaven, at the same time of the events marking Christ’s birth, the heir apparent to fill this gap in heaven vacated by draco and his minions.

The Astronomy of the ancient Maya civilization also holds some fascinating keys regarding the star Eta Draconis, relating to the Maya Serpent Calendar. Dr. Marian Hatch, an expert on the Maya Serpent Calendar, made some tantalizing connections between the orientation of the serpents on this amazingly detailed calendar, and the positions of the Constellation Draco, in the northern skies. She discovered that:

“the varied snake positions link true with the path of Draco’s Constellation as it would have appeared in the evening sky 2000 years ago. Dr. Hatch noted that the star Eta Draconis was unique that it alone among all other stars stayed virtually unchanged in right ascension for the 2300 years between 1800 BC to 500 AD, regularly transiting across the Meridian at midnight of May 23rd, and November 22nd, with a variation of less than a degree. Thus the star Eta Draconis provided the Maya with an accurate measure of the sidereal year, and a yardstick for comparison between the tropical and sidereal years, as well as indicating the precessional lag in  other stars…#23/4 {emphasis mine}

Figure 11. Draco’s position in the Maya Serpent Calendar. #24

precession of the poles

Dr. Hatch’s research shows an implied link between the precession of the poles and the precession of the equinoxes, as they are represented both vertical at the North Pole and horizontally on the ecliptic. From the graphic above we will also notice how the bodies of the serpents align with the circular rows of the Maya day-gods, which are depicted as scales on the serpent’s hide, [Job 41: 7-18]. This calendar’s accuracy is unsurpassed in the history of Astronomy, as it incorporates the Venus cycle in correlation with the luni-solar cycles. We will look deeper into the details of this dragon calendar, tying to the head and  tail of the dragon, its scales and so-called lunar Nodes as we progress in new studies along these lines, revealing spiritual implications of the Mazzaroth linked to its four serpentine Constellations.

As the Maya Serpent Calendar shows, Eta Draconis supplied the benchmark by which both the the tropical and sidereal years were tracked and contrasted, not to mention the effect of precession on heavenly stars, which seems the Mayans could have tracked going back to at least 1800 BC, coinciding with the star Eta-Draconis. The linked Eta-Draconid Meteor shower also marked Christ’s birth, providing a powerful witness to the dragon’s fall, depicting the casting down of the dragon with his minions for all time.

It is no “coincidence” that earth’s axis is tilted 23.4 degrees from vertical or 66.6 degrees from hortizontal. This keeps the terrestrial pole pointed to the North star, which 5000 years ago was a tail star in Draco-named Thuban, but now has shifted via the precession of the poles to Polaris in Ursa Minor, the little flock underfoot of King Cepheus, seated at God’s Right Hand, embodied in Christ with his spiritual body-the Church.

As individual believers, sons & daughters of God in Christ, we too can crush the serpent enemy immediately with his minions, under our feet, [Rom. 16:20] as we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ at the Heavenly Father’s Right Hand!

God Bless!

Rene’


Footnotes

1. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/calendars.html#Hebrew
2. [www.bloodmoonscoming.com] Graphic 3B “Like No Other”
3. http://www.777thsabbath.com/page97.html
4. Number in Scripture, E.W. Bullinger
5. [THE JUPITER-SATURN CONJUNCTION GEOCENTRIC TROPICAL ZODIAC) 600 BCE to 2400 CE copyright 1998-1999 by Richard Nolle all rights reserved].
6. Stellarium Astronomical Software; August 27th, 70 AD
7. Fig. 3 picture credit for El Castillo Pyramid.
8. Fig. 4 picture credit for Ouroboros serpent [https://stock.adobe.com/]
9. Fig. 5 picture credit for Roulette Wheel [www.shutterstock.com]
10. Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, Peter Thompkins [general reference]
11. IBID, p41. from the De Siguenza Manuscripts.
12. IBID
13. IBID
14. IBID
15. Figure 7 picture credit, for Kepler’s Trigon.
16. Joseph Campbell, An Introduction, Revised version.
17. Figure 8 picture credit for the Draconid Meteor Showers.
18. Jon Nessle’s Teaching on Draconids
19. October 2nd, 98’ Weekly News Bulletin of Sky & Telescope
20. Star Atlas of Hevelius, Draco @ the North Pole
21. Star Names their Lore & Meaning, R.A. Allen, p. 212.
22. Figure 10 picture credit of Draco. [space.com]
23. Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, Peter Thompkins [general reference]
24. Dr. Marian Hatch on Draco’s position in the Maya Serpent Calendar. IBID

 

The Spirit of God is the Light of God in Concretion

 

 

The Spirit of God is the Light of God in Concretion

Welcome to the June 2024 blog, as we are enduring the late Spring early Summer Heatwave in the desert SW! About five years ago, I posted a study which I taught on Tune-in-Tuesday in and posted in May of 2019, on the Father of Lights. The subject matter of that study provides an important foundation for what we are adding to this topic in June of 2024. Let’s begin at the beginning when God spoke  His order into Creation.

The first thing that God called back into the re-ordering of Creation in Genesis 1 was light, because any genuine works of His Hands in Creation must be a manifestation of the Father of Lights. In Gen. 1, we find whenever God spoke, something wonderful resulted. The Sound of His voice is antecedent to light which we can see in the following reference in Gen. 1:1-3.

“And God said, Let there be Light and there was Light. And God saw the Light, that it was good: and God divided the Light from the darkness.” The entrance of God’s Word always brings light, [Ps. 119:130], so as God spoke to give Light; the Sound of God’s Voice preceded Light. The info Rachael Rogers sent on the Oscillatory Frequency principle, rings true, since Sound is an Energy active on a lower Scale building towards light. In this light we can accurately grasp the Biblical principles of God’s Creation from a scientific viewpoint because based on Oscillatory Frequencies, Sound is Energy acting on a lower Scale, building towards light. As visible Light appears on the 49th Octave, it explains its Divine origin and relation; God is represented symbolically as a Circle of light going back to His Covenant with Noah [Gen. 9:12-17], the Number 7 being the perfect standard of God’s Creation. Since the Number 49 is the product of 7 X 7, it stands for each Circle of the spiral having been traversed 7 times as this perfect Light Energy was preceded by Sound with its Seven Musical Notes, before Light was created, with its Seven Spectral Colors. This pattern in Creation has led to the idea that God’s Creation of the Cosmos consisted of traversing seven Circles.

Plate 1. The Visible light Spectrum and the Menorah that registers in human vision is depicted below.

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The electromagnetic spectrum is generally divided into seven regions, in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing energy and frequency: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays, as seen above in Plate 1 above.


Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Gen. 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

We must remember what John 1:5 tells us about the relationship between light and darkness;

“And the light [God] shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

In the book Jesus Christ is not God, regarding John 1:5, V.P. Wierwille stated; “The clause in v. 5 is a general rather than a specific statement regarding light and darkness, it does not refer to a specific time in the past, in the present or in the future, but rather it is making a general statement about all time. Darkness is the absence of Light. Light, heat and all forms of energy are measured in terms of the positive not the negative. The negative is the absence of the positive. Even from a scientific point of view there is no way darkness could comprehend light since darkness is the absence of light. That which does not exist cannot over-come that which exists. #1

The 49th Octave of Visible Light

Prism of Light

On the 49th Octave of Visible Light, the Oscillatory Frequency per Second jumps to the high of 562,949,953,421,- 312, the middle of the Spectrum of Colors has come into existence, the 1st Visible Light starting around 318 Trillion Oscillations per second, with a faint Red Color. While the range of the ear for hearing is from the Fourth to the 15th Octave, a span of 11 or 12 Octaves, the eye can sense only 1 Octave—the 49th. As soon as the 50th is reached, with its 1,125,899,906,842,624 Oscillations, the faint Violet of the Spectrum vanishes and for Seven more Octaves, the potent, but invisible Ultra-Violet Range of Radiations is entered. Before going further, we will look into some of the properties of Oscillatory Frequencies and the conversion of Sound Energy into Light. It is interesting that the transition from the 49th Octave to the 50th reflects a vanishing point from visible light to invisible UV portion of the spectrum, perhaps mirroring an entrance to the spiritual realms. Since Sound is Energy acting on a lower Scale, as it builds towards light, it is helpful to grasp the Universal ratios of Musical Proportion in Plate 2, below, that maps this geometric soundscape.

Plate. 2 The Universal Ratios of Musical Proportion. #2 [pinterest.com]

Nature divides all expressions of energy including matter into Octaves of the Light and Sound spectrums composed of waves, vibrations or tones of equal constants and dimensions. These dimensional relations of these tonal Octaves vary in absolute and Universal ratios as seen in the chart above. All the wave-lengths of the E-M spectrum are traveling at the speed of light, just at varying frequencies, that depicts all Creation emanating from the Sound of God’s Voice. When we combine these spectrums of light and sound according to sacred time of Sabbaths of seven weeks, or years, unto the 50-year Jubilee, we find these temporal patterns cropping up in key biblical prophecies. The graphic below depicts a Musical Spiral of Frequency, Color and Light whose spiral is ordered to the Fibonnacci Numbers. This illustrates not only the Creator’s fingerprint on Nature, but also the Voiceprint of the Father of Lights.

Plate 3. Musical Spiral of Frequency, Color and Light #3

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https://x.com/mtnpoet/status/1284887428218540032

The Spirit of God is the Light of God in Concretion

Genesis 2:7 says, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”

For ages, the scientific community dismissed and often ridiculed the apparent  simplicity of the Bible’s claim that God created humankind from “the dust of the ground.” Well, Scientists aren’t being so dismissive anymore! Since the spectrums of Sound and Light are mapped on spiral lattices, similar to our DNA, it is not surprising in the least that the Spectrum of the Periodic Table would also conform to God’s masterplan of Creation.

Plate 4. Musical Note & Frequency with related Visible Light Wavelengths.

This contains an image of: Colours and their Sound and frequencies

Scientists have discovered that the elements found within the human body are the same as those found in dirt and clay. In 1982, after an in-depth study, NASA researcher’s at the Ames Research Center #4 confirmed that every single element found in the human body is also present in dirt. “We are just starting to learn,” the scientists acknowledged. The Biblical scenario for the Creation of life turns out to be an accurate picture of reality. This is established in Gen. 3:19 that says; “By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

This may contain: the human body is made up of many different elements

 Sir Isaac Newton said, “SCIENCE CONTINUES TO CONFIRM AND CATCH UP WITH THE BIBLE. No sciences are better attested to than the Science of the Bible.” As we consider the Elements of the Periodic Table, a Bible verse in Numbers, refers to 6 of at least 8 of the chemical elements cited in the Bible.

Numbers 31:22 22 Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead…

The following element list references their first Bible usage. (That may vary depending to your Bible Version/translation text.)

The history of the Periodic Table shows its was assembled by men of Science, to depict how the elements are understood by them. As such, a proposal of this study is to correlate the Spectrum of the Periodic Table of Elements, with the E-M and Sonic spectrums, that can be broken down according to their elemental Octaves. First a spectrum is simply a chart or a graph that shows the intensity of light being emitted over a range of energies. As we have seen in nature’s rainbow… its the best depiction of a spectrum resulting from visible light being projected through the prism of a rain–drop. Sunlight sent through raindrops is distributed to display its various colors of the rainbow (as our eyes perceive radiation with slightly different energies). As Nature divides all her expressions of energy into Octaves of equal tones and dimensions, we can observe how the energy spectrums of Sound and light, correlated to the Periodic table of elements, through Spectroscopy.

A brief history of Spectroscopy is helpful here. Spectroscopy can be very useful to help scientists understand how an object like a black hole, neutron star, or active galaxy produces light, how fast it is moving, and its elemental make-up. A Spectrum can be produced for any type of light energy; from low-energy radio waves to very high-energy gamma rays. Each spectrum holds a wide variety of information. For instance, there are many different mechanisms by which an object, like a star, can produce light. Each of these mechanisms has their own characteristic spectrum.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

White light (what we call visible or optical light) can be split into its basic or constituent colors easily and with a familiar result: the rainbow. All we have to do is use a slit to focus a narrow beam of the light at a prism. This setup is actually a basic spectrometer.

spectrum of white light

Spectrum of white light

The resultant rainbow is really a continuous spectrum that shows us the different energies of light (from red to blue) present in visible light. But the electromagnetic spectrum encompasses more than just optical light. It covers all energies of light, extending from low-energy radio waves, to microwaves, to infrared, to optical light, to ultraviolet, to very high-energy X-rays and gamma rays.

Illustration of the electromagnetic spectrum

The minor spectrum of visible light is seen in the center of the above spectrum, represents what humans can see with our vision, in the context of the complete E-M or electromagnetic spectrum. #5 (Credit: NASA’s Imagine the Universe)
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There are 3 types of spectra: Continuous, Emission line and Absorption. #6 (Credit: NASA’s Imagine the Universe)

What Can Scientists Learn From a Spectrum?

Continuous spectrum of white light
Emission or Bright Line spectrum of white light

Absorption or Dark Line spectrum of white light

 Each element in the periodic table can appear in gaseous form and will produce a series of bright lines unique to that element. Hydrogen will not look like helium which will not look like carbon which will not look like iron… and so on. Thus, astronomers can identify what kinds of stuff are in stars from the lines they find in the star’s spectrum. This study is called spectroscopy.

The science of spectroscopy is sophisticated. From spectral lines astronomers can determine not only the element, but the temperature and density of that element in the star. The spectral line also can tell us about a magnetic field of the star. The width of the line can tell us how fast the material is moving. We can also learn about winds in stars from this. If the lines shift back and forth we can see the star may be orbiting another star. We can estimate the mass and size of the star from this. If the lines grow and fade in strength we can learn about the physical changes in the star. Spectral data can also inform us about material around stars. This material may be falling on the star from a doughnut-shaped disk around the star called an accretion disk. These disks often form around a neutron star or black hole. The light from the stuff between the stars allows astronomers to study the interstellar medium (ISM). This tells us what type of stuff fills the space between the stars. Space is not empty! There is a lot of gas and dust between the stars. Spectroscopy is thus a fundamental tool used by scientists to study the Universe. #7

Each element absorbs light at specific wavelengths unique to that atom. When astronomers look at an object’s spectrum, they can determine its composition based on these wavelengths. Credit: Astronomy: Rick Johnson.

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When astronomers look at an object’s spectrum, they can determine its Chemical composition based on these wavelengths. #8

How do scientists discern chemical compositions of the planets and stars?

The most common method astronomers use to determine the composition of stars, planets, and other objects is spectroscopy. Today, this process uses instruments on a scale or grating that spreads out the light from an object by wavelength. This distributed light is called a spectrum. Every element — and combination of elements — has a unique fingerprint that astronomers can look for in the spectrum of a given object. Identifying those fingerprints allows researchers to determine its chemical composition.

That fingerprint often appears as the absorption of light. Every atom has electrons, and these electrons like to stay in their lowest-energy configuration. But when photons carrying energy hit an electron, they can boost it to higher energy levels. This is absorption, and each element’s electrons absorb light at specific wavelengths (i.e., energies) related to the difference between energy levels in that atom. Due to the conservation of energy laws, the electrons will return to their original levels for optimum efficiency, so they don’t hold the energy for very long. When they emit the energy, they release photons with exactly the same wavelengths of light that were absorbed initially. Electrons can release this light in any direction, so most of the light is emitted in directions away from our earth’s line of sight. Thus, a dark line appears in the spectrum at that particular wavelength.

Because the wavelengths at which absorption lines occur are unique for each element, astronomers can measure the position of the lines to determine the elements present in a target. The amount of light that is absorbed can also provide information about how much of each element is present.

The more elements an object contains, the more complicated its spectrum can become. Other factors, such as motion, can affect the positions of spectral lines, though not the spacing between the lines from a given element. Fortunately, computer modeling allows researchers to tell many different elements and compounds apart even in a crowded spectrum, and to identify lines that appear shifted due to motion. #9

Spectroscopy is a key tool in astronomy. By obtaining and analyzing the spectrum from a distant stellar object, astronomers can identify the type of object it is and determine a wealth of characteristics for the object. These include temperature,  its rotation speed and direction, its mass, density & composition. Isaac Newton first showed that a glass prism could be used to split sunlight into a spectrum in 1666. Further studies by William Wollaston in 1802 revealed some black lines on the component colors of the solar spectrum. More detailed observations by Joseph von Fraunhofer resulted in 574 of these lines being mapped by 1815. These lines were named “Fraunhofer lines” in his honor.

Leon Focault matched the lines produced by a sodium lamp with some of the dark lines in a solar spectrum in 1849. In 1857 Gustav Kirchoff and Robert Bunsen identified sodium in a solar spectrum. They found that a luminous solid or highly compressed hot gas could produce a continuous spectrum whilst a diffuse hot gas produced a spectrum with narrow bright lines on a black back -ground. As spectroscopes were coupled to telescopes additional chemicals were identified in the spectra of stars & nebulae. Sir Norman Lockyer & Jules Janssen each discovered the element helium in solar spectra before it was isolated in a Lab in 1895. The use of spectroscopy, coupled with the spread of photography for astronomical purposes, gave rise to the science of astrophysics from astronomy in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Three general types of spectra were now known, a continuous spectrum, that showed all the component colors of the rainbow, and two types of line spectra, the first, dark-line spectra like the solar spectrum and those from stars and the second, bright-line spectra as emitted from gas discharge tubes and nebulae. The Swiss school teacher, Johann Balmer in 1885 developed an empirical formula that determined wavelengths of the four visible lines in hydrogen’s spectrum. The Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, finally gave us an explanation of how spectral lines formed in the 1920s. His work relied on quantum physics and the concept of energy shells or orbits for electrons. #10 The chart below on the “Evolution of the Electron,” shows not only the electrons per atom but also the electron shell numbers in each Octave.

Plate 5. Evolution of the Electron [pinterest.com] #11

Chemical Composition and Metallicity
The presence of a spectral line corresponding to a specific energy transition for an ion, element or molecule in the spectrum of a star indicates that the specific ion, atom or molecule is present in that star. This is a fairly obvious idea that carries a with it high importance for astronomers. This was how helium was first discovered in the Sun before it was isolated on Earth. We now know that stars are mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, with small amounts of some other elements. This only became known because of spectroscopy.

Modern spectroscopy is highly efficient and is often conducted with very high resolution spectrographs that show spectral lines in fine detail. Astronomers can not only detect the presence of a line but they are often able to determine the relative amounts of different elements and molecules present. They can thus determine the metallicity of a star. In astronomy the term metal historically has been applied to any element heavier than helium so that even elements such as carbon and oxygen are called metals. When viewing metallicity, astronomers are actually talking about the relative chemical composition of a star. #12

In this way spectroscopy has contributed to the advancement of Chemistry as a Science when aligned with Astronomy, and the spectra of sound and light to include the chemical composition of Stars and other celestial bodies. As we stated earlier the E-M Light and Sound Spectrums can be broken down into their elemental tonal Octaves, with equal Constants and dimensions. These concepts are generally based on certain aspects of the work of Walter Russell [1871-1963], including his writings on Russell’s cosmogony as described in the book; “A New Concept of the Universe,#13“ where he wrote that “the cardinal error of science” was “shutting the Creator out of his Creation.”#14 Russell never referred to an anthropomorphic god, but rather wrote that “God is the invisible, motionless, sexless, undivided, and unconditioned white Magnetic Light of Mind.” #15 that centers all things. His concept of “The Basic Principles of Space Geometry” like the Geometry of the Elements, applies the Cube and Sphere as the working tools of Creation, where the Octave tones of Cubes of Space, map the structure of the Elements of the Periodic Table on a spiral diagram, a masterplan of the unity of these three spectrums. This agrees with Gen. 1:3-4; “And God said, Let there be Light and there was Light. And God saw the Light, that it was good: and God divided the Light from the darkness.” The entrance of God’s Word always brings light, [Ps. 119:130], when God spoke to give Light; and the Sound of God’s Voice preceded the Light. This maps out how Octaves of the Tones of God’s Spoken Words sounded out in the beginning, laying the Foundation for these Spectrums that ordered the Universe.

The popular Periodic Table below we learned from in Chemistry-Science classes shows how men of Science have understood and organized this knowledge field, in history. But in practice it seems to function as a glorified list of the elements, with the classification of their physical traits.

How many noble gases exist in the periodic table? - Quora

Since the Almighty is the Source of light, we find that JESUS is the embodiment and manifestation of God’s Light, so the Menorah symbolizes [1.] JESUS (Light, Love, Word and Savior), [2.] His Word, the BIBLE (49 scrolls with 66/70 books, they are the light that lightens this dark world) and [3.] The “BOOK OF LIFE,” that is eternal life (Rev 3:5; 20:12-15) and our way of life, the light in a dark world (Mt. 5:13-16). As we shine our light and as disciples, are an example to the world, our name stands forever in the Book of Life. This is our hope and joy. A Biblical Table of Elements is based on the pattern of the Menorah, found below. For more information: [The Menorah Periodic System of the Elements] 

The Menorah Model of the Periodic System of the Elements.

Menorah periodic system of the elements, chemistry

The Menorah is not a normal lampstand; it is a miracle, just as the Bible itself is also a miracle. #16

Does God’s Word only refer to the Menorah in the singular? If we focus on Rev. 1:10-20, we will see one like the Son of Man holding a Menorah in his right hand. Verse 4 depicts Foreshadowing to interpret the text telling us; 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be to you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne. This verse identifies the seven spirits, which are the angels of the seven Churches in verse 20, along with the seven churches of Asia that John is addressing. Its interesting that these seven Churches embody multiple families as members of seven churches, that constitute the spiritual body of Christ. We also take note that an order of seven angels also implies a cadre of angelic cohorts under Christ’s authority at God’s right Hand. The word “seven” being repeated 12 times in Rev. 1, implies a  a structure unto this end. This provides a view of a seven-fold Order of Angels in Christ’s right hand, that mirrors His seven-fold Lordship over the Church of his Spiritual Body, [Eph. 6:12]

Rev. 1:10-20

10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candle -sticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candle-sticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches.

Menorah painting by David G. Vogel. #17

Menorah painting by David G. Vogel with almond blossom and bulb

Vogel writes regarding the Menorah in Exodus 25: “I found it intriguing that the almond blossom is used to describe its bulbs and branches. #18

As Ex. 25 shows us, the Menorah’s structure imprinted with the pattern of the Almond tree. The Almond tree sprouts its leaves based on the Fibonacci series with every 13 leaves, 5 spirals are produced. Ex. 25:31-40 says there were 13+1 and 21+1 almond flowers and buds engraved into the Menorah-candle. So 14-is the 1st number of the next spiral of almond leaves that spiral 5x every 13 leaves. An almond branch pattern was seen too on Aaron’s budding Rod. Aaron’s rod embodied the tribe of Levi put by Moses into the Tabernacle with 12 rods of Israel’s enduring tribes-totaling 13, out of which only Aaron’s rod, not only budded, but blossomed and bore ripe almond fruit in one night.

Jesus is the living Menorah. He was the light that the whole world was waiting for. He not only paid the debt for our sins, but also showed us the way to the eternal light. As we find the Menorah framing the image of the almond tree, whose Bulbs, branches and blossoms-flower according to the spiral pattern of the Fibonacci series that spiral 5x for every 13 leaves. As seen above, the Periodic Table of the Elements also adopts the form of a Menorah, both as a single Menorah, and below in Walter Russell’s Periodic Table as a series of aligned Menorah’s, forming the Octaves of elements in the Periodic Table. Once the elements with similar chemical properties are put nearest each other as possible, a spiral form is generated resembling a series of 7-branched lamp-stands of God. This reveals Who the Creator of all chemical elements is, Who created everything and ordered the visible and invisible Universe. The Bible describes in detail the Creator and Maker of the Universe and all the stars of the expanse. (John 3:1; 1Cor. 8:6, 15:21-28; Rom. 1:19-25; Gen. 1-2, Heb. 1:2). 

The 9 Octaves of Walter Russell’s Periodic Table of Elements- A. #19

In Walter Russell’s Periodic Table seen below, the 9 Octaves of the Periodic Table of Elements are mapped on a series of Menorah’s laid out consecutively, end to end in Complimentary order, forming the 9 Elemental Octaves. These Lampstands are upheld by the 9 Octave division lines [Central Candles] between the red and blue quarter-arches on the Table below.

Walter Russell’s Periodic Table of Elements- B. #20

Walter Russell Chart (90) | Periodic chart, Studying math, Chart

Terrence Howard’s comments on Walter Russell’s Periodic Table [High Resolution 4k] #21

During the 5/18/2024 dialogue with Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan’s Podcast, Joe asked about how the Periodic Table is addressed by the Scientific Community today. Walter Russell’s periodic table is not just a list of elements; but is a dynamic concept of the energy of the Universe. Unlike the Periodic tables, we trained on, Walter Russell’s Table orders elements in spirals and octaves, forming a gradient of matter and energy.

We pick up on the interchange between Howard and Rogan early in their conversation; Rogan–“Can I stop you there? The concept of the Periodic Table, the way the Periodic table conventionally is addressed, do they address these things as being isolated or intertwined? #22

Mr. Howard responded with [00:24:45] “They interact, but in the conventional use of the periodic table they feel that carbon will always be carbon. And it will have its half life and keep breaking down, but it’d still be carbon. They don’t understand that it unwinds and becomes nitrogen. Nitrogen also unwinds and becomes oxygen. #23

Howard continues with his comments; “The first visible element we can perceive on Russell’s Table is hydrogen, that bonds to carbon, situated at the transition point between the 4th and 5th Octaves a mid-point between two noble gasses.”24

According to Russell’s Periodic Table the element of Hydrogen is the 1st visible element that opens the 4th Octave, as the elements of the first 3 Octaves are too dense to be visible. These first 3 dense Octaves consist of 6 Menorah quarter– arches bonded together at the transition points between the 1st [Alphanon] and 2nd [Betanon] Octaves, and the Second and 3rd [Gamanon] Octaves. Hydrogen sits where the central candle of the 3rd Menorah/Octave transitions to the fourth Menorah/Octave at Helium, followed by Lithium, the first element of the quarter-arch in the fifth Menorah/Octave.

Howard goes on; “But as we reach into the 5th Octave, the carbon octave, is known as the dual tone, since Carbon has two tones, seen in its negative and positive sides, as a charging element where the negative elements are dis-charged. The lithium becomes sodium in the next octave, doubles the same exact tone, just doubled and wider. The sodium becomes potassium in the next octave, as it widens.

Lithium is contractive, with beryllium and Boron that are also contractive. But the moment we get to carbon, it balances out. Mr. Howard goes on to say that “it reaches a perfect balance of plus and minus four, as a double tone. Then nitrogen is minus three, one minus three. Oxygen is minus two, fluorine is minus one. The balance of this structure is seen in that all these elements have mates. Fluorine and lithium naturally mate. For example, if  you have lithium bonded with any other element, the moment fluorine is introduced, it breaks all bonds violently, so it can bond with fluorine. Same thing with beryllium and oxygen. If you want to break water into its component parts of hydrogen and oxygen, all you have to do is introduce beryllium, or the sound of beryllium, and oxygen will violently break away from any other thing, even hydrogen, to bond with beryllium. And we can do this with just the frequency of beryllium. You can separate those up into one tube, the oxygen into another tube, without using electrolysis, or using heat. Just by using the frequency. And the proof of it, if you return up just a bit higher, we know the relationship between sodium and chlorine.”#25

[00:14:56] They’re equal and opposite mates. If you get out of the pool and you got chlorine and you’re itching from the chlorine, all you have to do is get some real salt and rub that on your skin, and it’ll turn right into an oil. It naturally neutralizes each other. So everything has an equal and opposite mate.

Hydrogen has the same tone as Carbon. Same tonal value of 40.5. The next one would be 81 hz. then you go to Silicon, which doubles at 162 hz. Next we find Cobalt at 324 hz. which is part of the base, of their common tonal values, and linked colors, that convert color back into sound based on their shared wave-length. This would fall in the minimum at double the length or a bit longer. As long as we continue to divide light by two, we will ultimately get back to its audible sound. Due to this relation between the 3 spectrums of light and color, sound and tone, with their related elemental matter and form, we will find a variance between Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, vs. Walter Russell’s Table, which is unwinding.#26

A key observation here in understanding how these 3 related spectrums work together is noted in Terrence Howard’s comments above; where he refers to the common tonal values of Silicon, that opens the 6th Octave and Cobalt that closes the 6th Octave as it transitions to the 7th Menorah/Octave. Howard refers to not only shared tones, but also linked colors that convert color to sound via shared wavelengths. Even as the Color Wheel of visible light depicts not only the complimentary tones of the visible light spectrum, but also the colors that neutralize their mated and opposing colors on the Color Wheel.

The Color Wheel [https://clonepainting.weebly.com/color-wheel.html] #27

Color Wheel - Painting I & II

Even as the mated colors of the Color Wheel neutralize their opposing color on the wheel, so to do the mated elements neutralize the chemistry of their mated elements on Walter Russell’s Spiral Periodic Table.

[00:25:14] Joe asks; With Walter Russell’s version of the periodic table. How is his version of the periodic table perceived by people who study this? #28

[00:25:24] Mr. Howard responds; Well, now everyone wants to use it. If you can go to my, in my book, there’s a picture of Einstein reading Walter Russell’s first book, second book, the Universal one, because when Walter wrote this in 1926, he sent it out to 300 different universities and physicists. And one of the quotes that Walter Russell said, Einstein says on his deathbed, I should have spent more time reading Walter Russell’s work. And now they’re taking it under their wing. But remember the Michelson Morley experiment from 1887? They were trying to prove whether there was an ether or an effect of an ether or the quintessence, that everything came from that used to be called the The fifth element, that everything from antiquity, everyone understood that something, just doesn’t come out of nothing. #29

[00:16:18] Mr. Howard expands with; “The reason that arsenic kills us is that because our DNA has nitrogen and it has phosphorus in it, because nitrogen unwinds into the next octave right after silicone and becomes phosphorus. Our DNA has both of those in there, but it’s going by tone. So the moment arsenic, which sits as a minus three on the next octave, the moment arsenic is introduced, the body thinks that, oh, this is my thing that I need. And it tries to wrap itself around the arsenic, but it makes the DNA unravel because it’s four times as large as that nitrogen. And those other little elements, titanium, vanadium, chromium, magnesium, and iron, all of those aren’t true elements. Those are isotopes, those things, those first three are the full tones. They make full spheres. But then it becomes elliptical with titanium, vanadium, and chromium. And on the other side, the 1st turn of the spiral of elements on the [Menorah] spiral is really tight, and dense-as we see in the first three sub-atomic Octaves. The 2nd time around [the spiral] we don’t see much of a difference between the third time around. Then we start seeing hydrogen. The fourth time around, we can see carbon. But in between each one of them, nature does not allow us in the silicone octave to expand out. But there is the same titanium, vanadium, chromium, magnesium, & iron that show between aluminum and silicone. But now with the wave conjugations, we couldn’t do that before because we didn’t know the angles of incidence necessary to open these things up. And you can’t do that with the platonic solids because the platonic solids were averages and approximations.”#30

[00:17:43] Everything in the nature,  everything in the universe, everything is expressed in motion, all motion expressed in waves, always were curved every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So the Greater the action, the greater the reaction. The greater the reaction. The greater resistance. The greater the resistance, the greater the curvature.#31

The Spiral Mirabilis Phi Pattern as seen in the Plant Kingdom and the Heavens

spiral mirabilis    cycles of life

This is why the galaxy is a circular disk in the first place. Everything, all motion is expressed in waves. All waves are expressed in curves. It always makes spirals. These spirals based on the Phi ratio and Fibonacci number series found in the structure of Creator’s life systems of our planet. The graphic below shows a 34/21 Fibonacci spiral that orders the Sunflower’s seed pattern.

Nature's patterns: Golden spirals and branching fractals - CNET

All these numbers are part of the mathematical Fibonacci series: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55… This Fibonacci series is generated by adding together the preceding two numbers in this series.

Spiral Diagram of Russell’s Table Elements of 4th through the 6th Octaves. #32

Walter Russell's Periodic Table of Elements | Sacred science, Physics, Sacred geometry

Mr. Howard’s dialogue goes on to explain why Gravity and the Speed of Light are not Constants… as Conventional Science has held for decades, due to their foundation on Newtonian Concepts.

Because the universe must be balanced, which Einstein left out in his Theory of relativity, the balancing side of the gravity. Gravity is caused by electric force. Electricity is always seeking a higher pressure condition. It spins northeast as trying to get to the center of a cone. But the next electric wave is coming, so it gets pushed out, and as it’s pushed out, it gets to the vortices, and that’s some on those vortices. Now, instead of it spinning northeasterly, centripetally,  it’s forced to spin centrifugally, and it spins southwesterly and it expands out. It decays. It keeps decaying until you get four magnetic waves that hit each other at 120 degree angles. At that point, they reconvert back into the electric field.

Another death blow to gravity was the fact that it’s not a constant. It could not be a constant, because things weigh heavier on the poles of the earth on the surface of the poles than it does at the equator. They’re heavier at the poles than they are at the equator. And the further away from the earth you go, the less hold is has, as with the gravitational forces on the Astronauts when they blast off, they have to break away from the earth’s gravity, but once they get further away from Earth’s gravitational field, Gravity’s hold decreases and they become suspended and can float in space. So there’s no consistency with gravity. It is not a constant, it is a coefficient, and it’s more so just an effect. And it’s the same thing with the Planck scale. You look at the Planck scale or Planck length or the Planck weight, all of those are based upon gravity and they’re supposed to occur at ten to the 15th, ten to the minus 15th, the Planck scale. #33

[01:51:54]

But they’ve already said that at a small molecular level, at the nuclear level, gravity has no effect. So how is that part of a Planck scale? You know, there’s a guy Fleming that talks a lot about this, but you take that, you look at the speed of light. Is that a constant? You know, in 1928, they saw that there were variant fluctuations between 1928 and 1948, between the speed of light and then out of nowhere. And Rupert Sheldrakes talks about this out of nowhere. They began to be a constant again, where there were fluctuations before. And he asked one of the professors about it and he said, oh, it’s a thing we call “intellectual phase locking,” where when they get different measurements for the speed of light, all of the scientists around the world will average it out to one thing instead of showing the fluctuations in it.

[01:53:11]

No. They’ve been able to measure light, the speed of light, since Galileo was measuring IO going around Jupiter. And that’s how they came up with the speed of light, was how he watched IO-a moon going around Jupiter and saw that there was a difference in how the light behaved. And they’ve been able to get very close measurements to what they thought was the speed of light. But it’s never been a constant because it changes depending upon the medium it’s going through. So there’s no constant there, but they have that as part of the Planck scale. #34

Mr. Howard is really challenging some of the well known aspects of Conventional Science with his assertions here, but I give him credit for standing up to the order established in the Scientific Community. As we transition back to a more Spiritual take on some of this information, we will discuss in more detail the Structure of the Menorah and how it fits with these three spectra. As we have seen already in Revelation 1, Christ is the living embodiment of the Menorah. He is the Light of the World. And in the graphic below, Christ is the Servant Lamp, and the King as the Menorah’s Central Candlestick, out of which the three candles are built on either side of the Central Candle. Jesus also embodies the Word of God. We will illustrate this point from John 1.

John 1:1- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

This verse contains a Figure of Speech called “antanaclasis” where two variant  meanings of a word are used together in the same verse.#35 John 1:1 refers to two different categories of the Logos; a. the Word with God. b. the Word was God. In this verse the Greek word “with” [G4314-pros] means “together with yet distinctly independent of…” and it appears in the accusative case, indicating motion towards a destination, [God].#36 Jesus is our example to follow along the only path that leads to the True God. In Rev. 1:11, 17 we find the repeated phrase “I am the First and Last,” in reference to the first, last and only way to the salvation for mankind. It is impossible for the Logos to be with God, [pros] and to be God, at the same time and in the same relationship! Mark 9 is a great example of “pros” as it relates to Jesus Christ.

Mark 9:19 He answered him, and saith, O Faithless generation, how long shall I be with [G4314-pros] you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me.

Jesus was “with” [G4314-pros] this faithless generation, but he was distinctly independent of that faithless generation. In truth Jesus is the example and reason for our faith, so he was the opposite of that faithless generation! In this same sense Jesus was with [G4314-pros] God, but distinctly independent of God, and not identical to God. Jesus as a man [I Tim. 2:5], in the flesh, which is the opposite of spirit. [Num. 23:19, Hos. 11:19, Rom. 8:4-14, Gal. 5:16-17] Jesus as the embodiment of the Menorah was foreshadowed in God’s Tabernacle and Temple as the mediator between God and Man so the Creator can fellowship with His Chosen People-Israel in the OT, and the Church in the NT.

The Menorah Embodies Christ as the Incarnate Word of God. #37

 Menorah.Pin on Biblical Diagrams

The Menorah also foreshadowed Christ as the Incarnate Word of God, as it contains the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. Another aspect of the Revealed Word that is relevant here are the Three manifestations of the Logos-the “Word” from John 1:1. #38

1. The Spoken Word of God-[Gen. 1:1-3, 5-11, 20-21, 24, 26, 29]
2. The Written Word of God-[Gen. 1:14-19, Ps. 19, Ex. 31:18]
3. The Incarnate Word of God-[John 1:14]

A key in comprehending and distinguishing between these 3 manifestations of God’s Logos, is to realize when they were manifested Biblically. As the Creator [Elohim] God communicated His Will, Covenants, His Nature and much more via His Word. This is a primary purpose of God’s Jehovah names, as each one shows a specific relationship of the Creator with His Creation. The Creator conceived His Creation perfectly and completely in His Foreknowledge, prior to His Act of Creation, in the Beginning. In this, we can see how all the manifestations of the Logos were with God in the beginning, in His Foreknowledge.

The Creator’s Spoken Word, which has been with God in eternity past, shows the active principle in the Creator’s Acts of Creation. As The Creator Spoke things into being that had no prior existence, Ex Nihilo, the Creator activated the energy which only He constitutes. So God created the perfect world- the earth, that His future Creation-Adam could inhabit. However, the Incarnate Word could not exist before fleshly Man was created in Gen. 2. This exposes a lie in the false doctrine that a God-man pre-existed with God in the Beginning. God also tells us many times He is a singular and unique God and there was no one like Him that is with Him. So the manifested Word here can only be the Spoken Word, since it had not been written yet and Christ was not yet born. Since God is the embodiment of Light, this was first manifested as God’s Spoken Words, in the sonic waves\booms as ripples in the molecular sea of Creation [Ps. 33:6, Heb. 11:3, 2 Pet. 3:5]. This is why we find related Light and Sound Spectrums, ordered to the pattern of Octaves. All Natural Law is the Law of God Imprinted on His Creation.

The Menorah and the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet are the basis of God’s Word. The graphic of the Spiral diagram of Russell’s Periodic Table provides us a top-down view that generally conforms to the Menorah’s image, which embodies Christ from Rev. 1, and John 1:1.

Spiral Diagram of Walter Russell’s Periodic Table of Elements. #39

The Russell Periodic Chart of the Elements, No. 2 | Sacred science, Periodic chart, Sacred geometry

 [02:30:55] Mr. Howard’s comments continued; “I have a picture showing hemoglobin and chlorophyll, and you’re going to notice that the hemoglobin has the same exact combination of carbon and hydrogen that we have. The only difference they have is the center of theirs is magnesium, and the center of ours is iron. That’s the only difference. You put a cephalopod up there, it would be copper. The same interaction of chemicals. So where does consciousness occur? [Levi. 17:11]


[02:36:49] Where does the sentient being occur? Is it just in the iron or is it magnesium? Deals with the pressure condition, like with a cephalopod. It has to have copper at its base because of the pressure condition. The same experience just under a different temporal dimension. Change the pressure condition, change the motion condition, you change the organism, it adapts. But it’s the same living principle. There’s no difference between us and the plants. And when people are chopping down and ripping things off just because they can’t hear them scream, it’s wrong. So tcotlc.com, we put all the patents inside of the center for truth, love and consciousness. That’s what tcltlc.com means, since I knew that I have a propensity to get angry and get emotional and could misuse this stuff. So we have a board of members that dictate how these things will be licensed out and how they’re used. So it’s not just on me. How are you or your board qualified to determine how this knowledge is applied? What’s the difference between you or the way conventional science has made these decisions in the past or even now? #40

[02:37:53] Joe Rogan asked; So where do you think consciousness is coming from?

[02:37:57]
T. Howard: Everything is alive, everything is conscious, everything is like if you take it from the biblical thing, what part of the universe was it made from? The Creator that he picks up some other, if the Creator is eternal. #41`

Here is where I take exception with Mr. Howard apparent views. He says there is no difference between us and the Plant world. And he questions whether the Creator is Eternal. Joe Rogan asks a valid Question regarding the source of Consciousness. Do Plants have freedom of will, like humans do? When God gave us our emotions and intellect, and the capacity to be a spiritual being that can fellowship with the Almighty, do Plants have that? By No Means do they have that! When God Created Man in Gen. 2 & 3 He didn’t do it in a test tube, and there were vast differences between how He created Man vs. the Plant world. We are talking about Creation, the environs prior to the adaptive methods of simple organisms, the human body is much more complex of a system, than simple organisms! No Morals or freewill, no intellect, all the aspects of human-kind that set us above the Plant or Animal worlds!! These differences certainly account for vastly more than mere Pressure Conditions!

This Eternal Creator exhibited a specific highly unique process for Creation according to His Laws and systems of Perfect Justice, forming and Making the first humans, and angels before them. The Creation of all the Earth’s environmental systems that support life on our planet was a precursor and separate from Human Consciousness, body, Soul & Spirit., even as the 200+ Anthropic Constants depict.

The danger and Fallacy I would caution against, is potentially 2-fold. You are either elevating the Plants to the level of Humans, or you are demoting the humans to the level of Plants. Either option carries dangerous pitfalls. You also have a potential for environmental idolatry, or a form of Pantheism; as you see God in every element of Nature, whether its the plant world, or cults of animal worship and totems, its also demoted Almighty God to the various aspects of His Creation, or as Romans 1:25 says “worshipping the Creation more than the Creator…” which has been done all through human history, to their own detriment! As Proverbs and Ecclesiastes tell us-there is nothing New under the Sun. He also needs to account for Ex-nihilo Creation, and freedom of will!! The 200+ Anthropic Constants and their highly precise designs and limits, without which Human life could not exist and thrive. This doesn’t happen in a test tube, nor are many of these processes patentable, or rightfully decided by individual humans or even any committee!

 [01:24:08] On a positive note I like and appreciate the geometric proof that Mr. Howard provides that the Universe is not infinite; “Like if you picture dropping a pebble into a pond or a pool, everything expands in these longitudinal waves, perfect spheres, unless there’s something else in there. But when it hits the edge, it all starts bouncing its way back. And when it meets, when these returning waves meet expanding waves, that’s when we get our first geometry. So this is a proof that the universe is not infinite, but finite, because you could not have shape without the returning waves. And the waves would not return unless it was bouncing off of the edge of something. 
#42
The Spirit of God is the Light of God in Concretion

Jesus is speaking to us in his churches today, to Christians everywhere to go and do the things he has commanded, to fulfill our part in the high calling from our Heavenly Father to be fellow-laborers with God in Christ, to stand with the believer’s together to the end we are victorious, not only in our personal  walk with the Heavenly Father in Christ, but also collectively as a Body, in our families into a shining eternal glory. I stand proudly with each of you as we manifest in unity, to let our light shine as brightly as we can with boldness! It is certainly needed in this dark world today!

God Bless!

Rene’

Footnotes
1. Jesus Christ is Not God. 2nd edition, p. 97 V.P. Weirwille
2. Plate. 2 picture credit; The Universal Ratios of Musical Proportion.  [pinterest.com]
3. Plate 3. Picture credit, [https://x.com/mtnpoet/status/1284887428218540032]
4. NASA researcher’s at the Ames Research Center.
5. (Credit: NASA’s Imagine the Universe)
6. IBID
7. [https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/spectra1.html]
8. Hydrogen Absorption Spectrum; Astronomy Magazine: Rick Johnson
9. Spectroscopy: Unlocking the Secrets of Star Light–Robert Hollow
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11. Plate 5 picture credit, Evolution of the Electron. [Pinterest.com]
12. https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/teachers/resources/spectroscopystw2006.pdf
13. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Russell
14. IBID
15. IBID
16. https://periodictableelements.jimdofree.com/periodic-table-of-elements
17. Menorah painting by David G. Vogel
18. IBID
19. The 9 Octaves of Walter Russell’s Periodic Table of Elements- A. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/esaruoho/albums/72157604222958040/]
20. Walter Russell’s Periodic Table of Elements- B. [pinterest.com]
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21. https://www.patreon.com/CosmicMotivation/shop/terrence-howard-and-walter-russell-table-226686
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23. Joe Rogan’s Podcast with Terrence Howard. [Transcript]
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27. The Color Wheel [https://clonepainting.weebly.com/color-wheel.html]
28. Joe Rogan’s Podcast with Terrence Howard [Transcript].
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32. https://www.flickr.com/photos/esaruoho/albums/72157604222958040/
33. Joe Rogan’s Podcast with Terrence Howard [Transcript].
34. IBID
35. Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, E.W. Bullinger, antanaclasis; ppg. 286-293.
36. Strong’s Concordance [G4314-pros], James Strong.
37. The Menorah Embodies Christ as the Incarnate Word of God. https://periodictableelements.jimdofree.com/periodic-table-of-elements
38. One God Seminar-Rev. Jon Nessle.
39. Spiral Diagram of Walter Russell’s Periodic Table of Elements.
The Russell Periodic Chart of the Elements, No. 2
40. Joe Rogan’s Podcast with Terrence Howard [Transcript].
41. IBID
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