Garry
(8 months ago)
I was interested in the blog and thought you might be interested in a new book just out (May 27, 2011), EXODUS, The Route, Sea Crossing, God’s Mountain. The sites of Elim, with its 12 wells is found not where expected but in the Eastern Desert of Egypt! With more traditions for this route than any other I have read, with a Synagogue, Monastery, Mosques and ancient traditions that have Israel on this route! For the sites of the ‘Graves of lust’ (Numbers 11:34) it has 30 short catacombs (about 25 to 80 feet long) which were filled with broken vases of cremated remains. There were no Greek or Roman towns in the area and the ancient Egyptians, Arabs and Jews did not cremated but God’s fire fell on them (Psalm 78:20-21). The next encampment after the Graves of Lust was Hazeroth (Numbers 11:45), where Miriam, the sister of Moses, was struck with leprosy and the Bible said she would have had to wash before reentering the camp of Israel (Leviticus 14:9), and a short distance from the catacombs is the Monastery of St. Paul with its “Pool of Miriam”, where they say that Miriam washed during the time of the Exodus! The book has 375 pages filled with new information, definitely not the same arguments or beliefs about the route and place names of the Exodus, there were two Kadeshes (the Egyptians gave this name “Holy Field”), there were two Mount Seirs! Web site = www.Sinai-Horeb.com Book = http://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781613792971
Garry
(1 year ago)
I believe some caution needs to be exercised here on these finds in Saudi Arabia. Mount Lawz is believed by some to be Mount Sinai, but there is a problem here with the petroglyphs or rock engravings that we need to consider. Some are saying these are from the 2nd century BC and therefore after the time of the Exodus, though I do not know if this is true Josephus (1st century Jewish Historian) said people were afraid of Mt. Sinai and stayed away from this site so it should not have pertroglyphs. “Now this is the highest of all the mountains thereabout, and the best for pasturage, the herbage being there good; and it had not been before fed upon, because of the opinion men had that God dwelt there, the shepherds not daring to ascend up to it...” (Josephus II, 12, 1) The reason the pasturage was so good was because people were afraid to go there. We are plainly told God wanted no tooled altar built at Mount Sinai, because man made objects would make it “polluted.” “An altar of earth....And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.” (Exodus 20:24-25) For the Tabernacle and its vessels God wanted things of beauty in our worship to Him, but not in this natural setting. With this said and the part about not using tools even when building an altar to God, lest Moses “polluted it,” this would certainly eliminated the rounded tooled columns that were found there as being by Israel. Nor would Moses have chiseled “graffiti” (petroglyphs) on Mount Sinai as the heathen were known to do at their places of worship, as Josephus said, “the shepherds not daring to ascend up to it.”
There should be no signs of a burnt mountain any more than there was a sign of a burnt bush that God's fire engulfed but did not consume (Exodus 3:2-3). By using a Goggle satellite you can find many mountains in the desert that are darker in color than the surrounding mountains and it is because rocks are a different color. Water erosion marks can be found all over the desert! Though it seldom rains in the desert, when it does it pours, these flash floods are what cause the wadis in the desert and they are found in many places.
As to pictures of golden chariots wheel lying on the bottom of the sea, how do we know it was not the wheel of a ships helm or even a brass pulley that fell over board? (The picture has no ruler to indicate its size.) This picture was taken by the same man who claims to have found a sample of the literal, “blood of Christ!” But no one is allowed to do any independent research on this blood sample. This is also the same person who claims to have found the “Ark of the Covenant,” and said he “gave” it to the Israel government, but they deny this. He also claims to have found the stones of the Ten Commandments, and a very long list of Biblical artifacts. http://www.newlocationofredseacrossing.com/
I was interested in the blog and thought you might be interested in a new book just out (May 27, 2011), EXODUS, The Route, Sea Crossing, God’s Mountain. The sites of Elim, with its 12 wells is found not where expected but in the Eastern Desert of Egypt! With more traditions for this route than any other I have read, with a Synagogue, Monastery, Mosques and ancient traditions that have Israel on this route! For the sites of the ‘Graves of lust’ (Numbers 11:34) it has 30 short catacombs (about 25 to 80 feet long) which were filled with broken vases of cremated remains. There were no Greek or Roman towns in the area and the ancient Egyptians, Arabs and Jews did not cremated but God’s fire fell on them (Psalm 78:20-21). The next encampment after the Graves of Lust was Hazeroth (Numbers 11:45), where Miriam, the sister of Moses, was struck with leprosy and the Bible said she would have had to wash before reentering the camp of Israel (Leviticus 14:9), and a short distance from the catacombs is the Monastery of St. Paul with its “Pool of Miriam”, where they say that Miriam washed during the time of the Exodus! The book has 375 pages filled with new information, definitely not the same arguments or beliefs about the route and place names of the Exodus, there were two Kadeshes (the Egyptians gave this name “Holy Field”), there were two Mount Seirs!
Web site = www.Sinai-Horeb.com
Book = http://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781613792971
I believe some caution needs to be exercised here on these finds in Saudi Arabia. Mount Lawz is believed by some to be Mount Sinai, but there is a problem here with the petroglyphs or rock engravings that we need to consider. Some are saying these are from the 2nd century BC and therefore after the time of the Exodus, though I do not know if this is true Josephus (1st century Jewish Historian) said people were afraid of Mt. Sinai and stayed away from this site so it should not have pertroglyphs. “Now this is the highest of all the mountains thereabout, and the best for pasturage, the herbage being there good; and it had not been before fed upon, because of the opinion men had that God dwelt there, the shepherds not daring to ascend up to it...” (Josephus II, 12, 1) The reason the pasturage was so good was because people were afraid to go there. We are plainly told God wanted no tooled altar built at Mount Sinai, because man made objects would make it “polluted.” “An altar of earth....And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.” (Exodus 20:24-25) For the Tabernacle and its vessels God wanted things of beauty in our worship to Him, but not in this natural setting. With this said and the part about not using tools even when building an altar to God, lest Moses “polluted it,” this would certainly eliminated the rounded tooled columns that were found there as being by Israel. Nor would Moses have chiseled “graffiti” (petroglyphs) on Mount Sinai as the heathen were known to do at their places of worship, as Josephus said, “the shepherds not daring to ascend up to it.”
There should be no signs of a burnt mountain any more than there was a sign of a burnt bush that God's fire engulfed but did not consume (Exodus 3:2-3). By using a Goggle satellite you can find many mountains in the desert that are darker in color than the surrounding mountains and it is because rocks are a different color. Water erosion marks can be found all over the desert! Though it seldom rains in the desert, when it does it pours, these flash floods are what cause the wadis in the desert and they are found in many places.
As to pictures of golden chariots wheel lying on the bottom of the sea, how do we know it was not the wheel of a ships helm or even a brass pulley that fell over board? (The picture has no ruler to indicate its size.) This picture was taken by the same man who claims to have found a sample of the literal, “blood of Christ!” But no one is allowed to do any independent research on this blood sample. This is also the same person who claims to have found the “Ark of the Covenant,” and said he “gave” it to the Israel government, but they deny this. He also claims to have found the stones of the Ten Commandments, and a very long list of Biblical artifacts.
http://www.newlocationofredseacrossing.com/