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« on: Apr 03, 2009, 07:49 AM »


     For some reason Abram chooses Damascus to go to, though contact with Shem Melchizedek in Ur-Salem. According to Zecharia Sitchin (in his exaggerated fantasy timelines of spaceship aliens) he quotes Damascus as having a foundation of year 133 AM. This is of course predictably altered to the claim of not just 133 years after the Flood but also as Adams 133 to make it the oldest city to boast about. Berosus likewise does this claiming that Babylon is not just the first city after the Flood but also the first city of the world in which Alulim reigned as king before the Flood; the true city bein Eridu. (People do not realize that the word city for Babylon and Ur refers to parental authority being lost to appointed positions. Indeed, this is like being ruled by intruding angels before the Flood. And in that sense Nimrod is likewise an intruding messenger /angel. As far as residency, Kish was built in 2270 BC by Cush at Nimrod's birth 30 years earlier just 5km east of Babel in 2240 BC and appears to be home to Eber as well.)
     So the text of Sitchin reveals that concerning the Tower of Lebanon in Damascus that a compromise is made to beleive everything after the Flood as also duplicated before the Flood. Built 133 years after the Flood and 133 years after Adam. Built by Canaan after the Flood, or by Cainan (Chaldea), but built by Kenan before the Flood, or by Cain himself, a rebel like Nimrod. This is why we need to open our eyes to see how and where embellishing comes from to find truth and eliminate lies. With this process if we choose wrong, it will still come forth and be revealed where we are wrong or took a wrong turn. So now we have a choice, is it 133 of 360 days from year 600-733 which is 2370-2239 BC, or are they 133 years to 2237 BC. Some where there is an astral observation to find here.
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« Reply #1 on: Apr 13, 2009, 07:35 PM »


I think Zecharia Sitchin tells a compelling story that is based on his interpretation of the events and evidence.
I know that many disagree and criticize his view. But even if his is partually correct , it can lead to exactly what we cal Chariots of Gods.

Elijah what is your take on Ezekiel 1?

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The throne-chariot (Heb. merkavah) of God is described in Ezekiel 1:1-28, which was written shortly after the first Jewish exiles arrived in Babylon (587 BCE.)

The prophet first saw a luminous cloud coming from the north; from a distance it seemed a heavy cloud fringed with light and some intense brilliancy in the centre thereof, bright as gold, yet in perpetual motion as the flames of a fire. Within that heavenly fire he began gradually to distinguish four living beings with bodies as men, yet with four faces each: a human face in front, but an eagles face behind; a lion's face to the left and an ox's face to the right. Though approaching, yet their knees did not bend in their march, straight and stiff they remained; and for feet they had the hoofs of oxen, shod as it were with shining brass. They had four arms, two to each shoulder, and attached along each arm a wing. Of these four winged arms two were outstretched above, and two were let down and covered their bodies. These four living beings stood together, facing in four opposite directions, and between them were four great wheels, each wheel being double, so that it could roll forward or sideways. Thus this angelic chariot, in whatever of the four directions it moved, always presented the same aspect. And both angels and wheels were all studded with eyes. And over the heads of the cherubim, so that they touched it with the points of their outstretched wings, was an expanse of crystal, and on this crystal a sapphire throne, and on the throne one resembling a man, the likeness of the glory of Jehovah."
     - J.P. Arendzen, "Cheribim", Catholic Encyclopedia






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« Reply #2 on: Apr 14, 2009, 01:38 AM »

I am of the belief that no  one should deliberately take hallucinatory drugs because you cannot control which spirit will come over you, that of God or that of Satan.

But I also believe mistakes happen that are not intended because they are free-will and yet God can use the mistakes to make what is good. What Ezekiel saw may have been from eating a mushroom, but the fact remains what he saw was either put into his mind or came out of and from his mind. The debate shouldnt be made at all here and either should be allowed to be the perspective, though what i feel comes out of our mind need not be what Satan nor God put into it but rather all things in our mind is a process of God much like dreaming. Frequently it is unsorted or merged of all things we know and see.

Do then say, well then this wasnt of God, is to make a decision that you choose for yourself like Eve what is of God or not of God. It's a very forward risky step to take because such decisions are 50-50 right or wrong and life or death. To say Ezekiel's dream is not of God is to say you know more, or more accurately you attempt to find fault with it. I see no fault in the dream, its analogies have their sources long before Ezekiel and thus prove they are from his mind as a description of God moving forward as kings do in chariots. There is no need to make the spiritual aspects of the described dream into physical realities of their description. The animals describe authority and rulership of God in the same way Daniel sees animals as Satan's kings on earth. It would not surprise me to see an American dream of the voting season of an Eagle, or an Elephant or a Donkey. Like I said it is input created before the dreams, and it comes out in a form where the mind is imagining what could be in a very metaphoric sense. Even the most stupid of people have metaphoric dreams, the intelligence to create is there in our minds. We are like God. (in that way) as scriptures does state.
ELIJAH

Sitchen who is hated by scientists and evolutionists prove that all the same data can be fabricated (spaceships and other planets) to a timeline just like scientists and evolutionsits do. He is not truth, yet he is a great example of how pieces of remarkable unknown rediscovered truth are all thrown together just like scientists and evolutionists do and have done. (archeologists included) Am I guilty of this process? We are all guilty of the process that we must throw in the jigsaw puzzle piece and see if it fits, this is what you see me do, and you laugh at me when i have the wrong piece. But it is a required process of God, and it is not funny when I find the right piece compared to the piece you shoved and forced into a space it doesnt fit. This is how the kingdom of the true God has grown; but that 12 pieces of a trillion-piece puzzle has become 144,000 pieces and in 1000 years it will be finished by all the very people who come back and had in their lives pieced that puzzle all wrong. This is why it says all bend knee to the Christ who sits beside him the Christ-bride who gets worshipped in the same bow to Jesus. He that sees the bride in the flesh though the bride does sin and make her mistakes will have seen Jesus his second time in the flesh and will save himself the day the  bride is correct about the date of Armageddon.
All the dead ever in the whole world then come under her when the survivors raise them all so that all are converted by an actual rebirth of flesh of all those who never had the true upbringing or conversion of truth (religion) since Eve and Cain and Abel. Resurrection to life in flesh is a very easy conversion of faith. It doesnt force a conversion like war, though some will feel it does continue the attempt to buy people as an adoption to the church thru food charities. Perhaps that is what Satan says at the end of 1000 years THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BOUGHTEN, it is not in their hearts.

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