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If this be literal, it is to form an actual way of escape from Jerusalem; if figurative, it symbolizes how that which would be the greatest hindrance to escape, the mountain which was higher than the city, blocking, as it were, the way, should itself afford the way of escape; as Zechariah speaks, "O great mountain, before Zerubbabel" thou shalt become a "plain" Zechariah 4:7; and Isaiah, "Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain" Is. Isa 40:4; that is, every obstacle should be removed.
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GOD is great good to hear from you Dave I see the research paned out proving GOD right again imagine that. Blessings brother. Boy you have walk into a real hornets nest hear. Some people will not give up there dogma for nothing not even the truth. You can have some real fun here and some great brothers and sisters as you will see.
Certainly crossnote. Here is a literal translation I did based on all of the evidence (which I can get into if you like):
The first sentence is exactly what happened during at least one landslide on the Mt of Olives, and is very close to what Josephus wrote about the landslide that clogged up the kings' gardens during King Uzziah's reign.
The verb that is translated 'split' in most bibles can also be translated 'rend' or 'tear apart', which is exactly what's happened. The evidence proves that. I'll get into the rest in a next post.
… The Mount of Olives will tear apart from its eastward half, a vehemently great chaos westward; and the north- and south-facing halves of the mountain summit will fall. And the valley of my mountains will be closed up and filled in as far as Azal, as it was closed up during the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. …
Zechariah 14:4-5, LXX, Apostolic Bible Polyglot, less literal translation
Zechariah 14:4-5, LXX, Apostolic Bible Polyglot, less literal translation
The first sentence is exactly what happened during at least one landslide on the Mt of Olives, and is very close to what Josephus wrote about the landslide that clogged up the kings' gardens during King Uzziah's reign.
But I think I have found the key to this passage, and will quote for this end the following passage from Josephus, Antiq., book 9., chap. 10., being a part of the history of Uzziah: “The king was highly nettled at this, and threatened to put them to death if they spoke a word more. Immediately the earth trembled, and the roof of the temple opened, through which a beam of the sun darted full upon the face of the king, who from that instant became a leper. This prodigy was followed by another: near a certain place before the city, named Eroge, the one half of a mountain that looked westward was torn from the other half, and rolled for the space of four furlongs, till it stopped to the eastward of it, by which means the road was blocked up, and the king’s gardens covered with rubbish.
Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine, Joseph Schwarz, pp. 263-264, (1850)
Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine, Joseph Schwarz, pp. 263-264, (1850)
The verb that is translated 'split' in most bibles can also be translated 'rend' or 'tear apart', which is exactly what's happened. The evidence proves that. I'll get into the rest in a next post.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,.... Where he often was in the days of his flesh, and from whence he ascended to heaven, Lu 21:37 but here he did not appear at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem; wherefore this must refer to a time to come; and seeing it is certain that he will stand in the latter day on the earth, at the time of the resurrection, and will come down from heaven in like manner as he went up; it seems very probable that he will descend upon that very spot of ground from whence he ascended, Job 19:25. The Jews, e have a notion, that, at the general resurrection of the dead, the mount of Olives will cleave asunder, and those of their nation, who have been buried in other countries, will be rolled through the caverns of the earth, and come out from under that mountain. This is what they call "gilgul hammetim", the rolling of the dead; and "gilgul hammechiloth", the rolling through the caverns. So they say in the Targum of So 8:5.
"when the dead shall live, the mount of Olives shall be cleaved asunder, and all the dead of Israel shall come out from under it; yea, even the righteous, which die in captivity, shall pass through subterraneous caverns, and come from under the mount of Olives.'' Nothing opened but above is Gill whose grasp of the Hebrew I respect...(sorry, paste function is erratic on this tablet)
"when the dead shall live, the mount of Olives shall be cleaved asunder, and all the dead of Israel shall come out from under it; yea, even the righteous, which die in captivity, shall pass through subterraneous caverns, and come from under the mount of Olives.'' Nothing opened but above is Gill whose grasp of the Hebrew I respect...(sorry, paste function is erratic on this tablet)
R
i read your reply.
i'm sorry it won't hold up rachel. no matter how you work it.
but keep posting.
you say you looked at Khazaria.com.
did you actually believe what they said?
that they themselves know they were not natural israelites?
or do you think they are deluded too?
.......................
really, you have to spend another year studying the Kingdom of Khazaria.
which you scoffed and utterly denied only a year ago.
right?
......................
so keep posting, and i'll post what i know.
this is how it works....the best evidence leads to the truth.
you have not addressed yet how black africans and caucasians can both be israelites.
could you do that?
you are narrowing it down to jews and arabs now.
why?
isn't this what i've actually been saying? all along?
as for this bit:
which jewish men?
the black ones or the white ones?, or the 'arabian' ones
from the region the bad roman guy called palestine?
if the vast # of jews are israelites, according to your reading of the older, incomplete DNA testing.....then....so are arabs.
so which is it?
because in reality...that IS the right answer.
but you have reached the wrong conclusion.
and you've done it because you still don't know which group is lying.
but i plan to get to it...soon.
all of it.
the whole ugly mess can be taken apart. and it will be.
the answer is in who is most interested in lying and covering up the truth and history?
the answer will actually surprise you.
it should be self-evident in this way - WHO HAD TTHE POWER TO TO IT?
to craft all the lies?
WHO? how honest can we be today?
see, by attaching the darwinian/nazi/eugenics theories label to the khazarian theory....you actually confirm who it is that's lying, and who it is that are claiming to be jews and are not.
this isn't hard.
at all.
its an absurd subject, and the fact we are even discussing, that we have to discuss it, given that we are supposed to be Christians, who know the Bibel....tells us exactly who it is that came up with parallel plan B, and who it is that was LAWAYS interested in eugenics and darwinianism and racial theories.
is this hard rachel? really?
i'll help...i'll post on who it is in the modern era came up with the whole concept of racial superiority; how to 'prove' it; what to do about it; and how to cover it up when caught.
i've posted all this a million times for years here.
but we're not supposed to actually TELL the truth, we're just supposed to SAY we care about it.
the facts don't lie. real history doesn't lie.
we KNOW who did all of it.
it can't be undone.
God help us all.
i'm sorry it won't hold up rachel. no matter how you work it.
but keep posting.
you say you looked at Khazaria.com.
did you actually believe what they said?
that they themselves know they were not natural israelites?
or do you think they are deluded too?
.......................
really, you have to spend another year studying the Kingdom of Khazaria.
which you scoffed and utterly denied only a year ago.
right?
......................
so keep posting, and i'll post what i know.
this is how it works....the best evidence leads to the truth.
you have not addressed yet how black africans and caucasians can both be israelites.
could you do that?
you are narrowing it down to jews and arabs now.
why?
isn't this what i've actually been saying? all along?
as for this bit:
which jewish men?
the black ones or the white ones?, or the 'arabian' ones
from the region the bad roman guy called palestine?
if the vast # of jews are israelites, according to your reading of the older, incomplete DNA testing.....then....so are arabs.
so which is it?
because in reality...that IS the right answer.
but you have reached the wrong conclusion.
and you've done it because you still don't know which group is lying.
but i plan to get to it...soon.
all of it.
the whole ugly mess can be taken apart. and it will be.
the answer is in who is most interested in lying and covering up the truth and history?
the answer will actually surprise you.
it should be self-evident in this way - WHO HAD TTHE POWER TO TO IT?
to craft all the lies?
WHO?
how honest can we be today?see, by attaching the darwinian/nazi/eugenics theories label to the khazarian theory....you actually confirm who it is that's lying, and who it is that are claiming to be jews and are not.
this isn't hard.
at all.
its an absurd subject, and the fact we are even discussing, that we have to discuss it, given that we are supposed to be Christians, who know the Bibel....tells us exactly who it is that came up with parallel plan B, and who it is that was LAWAYS interested in eugenics and darwinianism and racial theories.
is this hard rachel? really?
i'll help...i'll post on who it is in the modern era came up with the whole concept of racial superiority; how to 'prove' it; what to do about it; and how to cover it up when caught.
i've posted all this a million times for years here.
but we're not supposed to actually TELL the truth, we're just supposed to SAY we care about it.
the facts don't lie. real history doesn't lie.
we KNOW who did all of it.
it can't be undone.
God help us all.
i don't know how much more i am going to be able to discuss this topic with you if you aren't even reading your own sources...
my view on the khazar theory has not changed since last year...last year i believed that the ashkenazi gene pool was fundamentally israelite with some contributions from the khazar people through intermarriage...and i still believe that...
africans are not israelites...that is 'black israelism' stuff...
the data doesn't show that arabs are israelites...what it shows is that 70% of modern jews have the same ancestor as 50% of modern arabs...namely abraham... the modern arabs would be the descendants of abraham's son ishmael...so most modern jews would be the descendants of abraham's son isaac...
the fact that 70% of modern jews and 50% of modern arabs share a common ancestor also means that ashkenazi jews cannot simply be khazars living under another name...unless you also want to argue that half of the arabs are khazars...
R
this is irrelevant...completely irrelevant...
i explained how the khazar theory was formulated using outdated and laughably unscientific methods of racial determination...and your response is to tell me that the jews are racists?
the methods that formed the basis of the khazar theory are totally invalid -regardless- of who you think first invented racism...
this seems more like a way of changing the subject than anything else...
maybe i should just ask you plainly...do you seriously believe that it is scientifically valid to determine someone's racial origins simply by their character traits? or by measuring their noses and foreheads and chins?
i explained how the khazar theory was formulated using outdated and laughably unscientific methods of racial determination...and your response is to tell me that the jews are racists?
the methods that formed the basis of the khazar theory are totally invalid -regardless- of who you think first invented racism...
this seems more like a way of changing the subject than anything else...
maybe i should just ask you plainly...do you seriously believe that it is scientifically valid to determine someone's racial origins simply by their character traits? or by measuring their noses and foreheads and chins?
could you please respost the source and precisely where you got it (from me)
so the white-skinned ashkenazis are Biblical Israelites (with some Turkic mixing).
then the British Israelite theory could be correct after all?
hold on!
then how do you know 'white' jews (ashkenazi) are israelites?
black africans are jews aren't they?
according to judaism they are.
they are circumcised and practice judaism.
do the promises apply to them?
or is this really a DNA issue?
what about the Sephardic?
are they not Israelites?
really?
could i see your evidence that the common ancestor is Abraham?
it might be...but where'd you get that information from?
it's a theory - right? since we don't have Abraham's DNA.
and Abram was a gentile.
so, you're saying Abram was white-skinned like Eastern European jews?
and that Arabs are through Hagar, so are half Ashkenazi via Abraham?
which ones?
the white skinned ashkenazism?
the Eastern European jews are sons of Isaac and all the others are....intermarried half-breeds of some sort?
the caucasians are isaac's sons?
the Brit-Am'ers will love this.
maybe they are the Ten Lost tribes.
rachel...okay.
let's try this.
you say ashkenazism are the true israelites.
okay.
then which jews are the Khazars?
what do they look like?
(from me)so the white-skinned ashkenazis are Biblical Israelites (with some Turkic mixing).
then the British Israelite theory could be correct after all?
hold on!
then how do you know 'white' jews (ashkenazi) are israelites?
black africans are jews aren't they?
according to judaism they are.
they are circumcised and practice judaism.
do the promises apply to them?
or is this really a DNA issue?
what about the Sephardic?
are they not Israelites?
really?
could i see your evidence that the common ancestor is Abraham?
it might be...but where'd you get that information from?
it's a theory - right? since we don't have Abraham's DNA.
and Abram was a gentile.
so, you're saying Abram was white-skinned like Eastern European jews?
and that Arabs are through Hagar, so are half Ashkenazi via Abraham?
which ones?
the white skinned ashkenazism?
the Eastern European jews are sons of Isaac and all the others are....intermarried half-breeds of some sort?
the caucasians are isaac's sons?
the Brit-Am'ers will love this.
maybe they are the Ten Lost tribes.
rachel...okay.
let's try this.
you say ashkenazism are the true israelites.
okay.
then which jews are the Khazars?
what do they look like?
R
will you please draft a letter informing the khazarian jews of your findings please.
you are an authority based on a few early (debunked themselves) attempts to attribute these people and their real history to antisemitic nazis.
please be sure to inform them their history needs to go into the trash where it belongs.
"The history of Khazaria presents us with a fascinating example of how Jewish life flourished in the Middle Ages. In a time when Jews were persecuted thruout Christian Europe, the kingdom of Khazaria was a beacon of hope. Jews were able to flourish in Khazaria because of the tolerance of the Khazar rulers, who invited Byzantine and Persian Jewish refugees to settle in their country. Due to the influence of these refugees, the Khazars found the Jewish religion to be appealing and adopted Judaism in large numbers.
Most of the available information about the Khazars comes from Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Byzantine, and Slavic sources, most of which are reliable. There is also a large quantity of archaeological evidence concerning the Khazars that illuminates multiple aspects of the Khazarian economy (arts and crafts, trade, agriculture, fishing, etc.) as well as burial practices.
Origins. The Khazars were a Turkic1 people who originated in Central Asia. The early Turkic tribes were quite diverse, although it is believed that reddish hair was predominant among them prior to the Mongol conquests. In the beginning, the Khazars believed in Tengri shamanism, spoke a Turkic language, and were nomadic. Later, the Khazars adopted Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, learned Hebrew and Slavic, and became settled in cities and towns thruout the north Caucasus and Ukraine. The Khazars had a great history of ethnic independence extending approximately 800 years from the 5th to the 13th century.
The earliest history of the Khazars in southern Russia, prior to the middle of the 6th century, is hidden in obscurity. From about 550 to 630, the Khazars were part of the Western Turkish Empire, ruled by the Celestial Blue Turks (Kök Turks). When the Western Turkish Empire was broken up as a result of civil wars in the middle of the 7th century, the Khazars successfully asserted their independence. Yet, the Kök kaganate under which they had lived provided the Khazars with their system of government. For example, the Khazars followed the same guidelines as the Kök Turks regarding the succession of kings.
An Introduction to the History of Khazaria < click
"Most of the available information about the Khazars comes from Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Byzantine, and Slavic sources, most of which are reliable."
while you are informing everyone of your findings (racist nazi ideological trash), please contact the custodians and scholars responsible for the above sources.
please, as well, revise the history books which record scores of travelers and regional contemporaries who testified and record their own histories and observations that the Khazars were - first - pagan shamanistic gentiles, who under the influence of immigrant Rabbinic families (who married into the Khazarian Royalty and found favor in the courts) - virtually the entire nation converted to Talmudic Judaism, and over a few short generations (after destroying most remnants of their pagan past, phallic idols etc, due to their new beliefs)...ALL BEGAN TO BELIEVE THEY WERE ANCIENT ISRAELITES.
did you see where they migrated to after their final conquest and the dissolution of their Kingdom?
so, do the KHAZARS themselves CLAIM to be ancient israelites or don't they? no they DON'T.
they had some intermarriage (see site), and they migrated to various places (see site).
so, though DNA is a bogus way to determine anything to any definitive degree and there really ought to be no reason for it (unless racists need to prove racial purity or heritage for some 'important' reason), of course you are going to find SOME connection - they considered themsleves jews and married jews!
that doesn't ake them israelites and they never claimed to be.
they converted to Judaism 700 years AFTER CHRIST.
you'll find these artifacts at Khazaria.com - they are not ashamed of their heritage, but perhaps they'll believe you that their history belongs in the garbage can.
Ukrainian Prince Sviatoslav's defeat of the Khazar army c. 968 A.D.
Hexagram on Khazar shield.
.........................
The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David (Hebrew מָגֵן דָּוִד; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ [maːˈɣeːn daːˈwiːð], Tiberian [mɔˈɣen dɔˈvið], Modern Hebrew [maˈɡen daˈvid], Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid [ˈmɔɡeɪn ˈdɔvid] or Mogen Dovid) is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.[1] Its shape is that of a hexagram, the compound of two equilateral triangles. The hexagram has been in use as a symbol of Judaism since the 17th century, with precedents in the 14th to 16th centuries in Central Europe, where the Shield of David was partly used in conjunction with the Seal of Solomon (the hexagram) on Jewish flags. Its use probably derives from medieval (11th to 13th century) Jewish protective amulets (segulot).
Star of David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
you are an authority based on a few early (debunked themselves) attempts to attribute these people and their real history to antisemitic nazis.
please be sure to inform them their history needs to go into the trash where it belongs.
"The history of Khazaria presents us with a fascinating example of how Jewish life flourished in the Middle Ages. In a time when Jews were persecuted thruout Christian Europe, the kingdom of Khazaria was a beacon of hope. Jews were able to flourish in Khazaria because of the tolerance of the Khazar rulers, who invited Byzantine and Persian Jewish refugees to settle in their country. Due to the influence of these refugees, the Khazars found the Jewish religion to be appealing and adopted Judaism in large numbers.
Most of the available information about the Khazars comes from Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Byzantine, and Slavic sources, most of which are reliable. There is also a large quantity of archaeological evidence concerning the Khazars that illuminates multiple aspects of the Khazarian economy (arts and crafts, trade, agriculture, fishing, etc.) as well as burial practices.
Origins. The Khazars were a Turkic1 people who originated in Central Asia. The early Turkic tribes were quite diverse, although it is believed that reddish hair was predominant among them prior to the Mongol conquests. In the beginning, the Khazars believed in Tengri shamanism, spoke a Turkic language, and were nomadic. Later, the Khazars adopted Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, learned Hebrew and Slavic, and became settled in cities and towns thruout the north Caucasus and Ukraine. The Khazars had a great history of ethnic independence extending approximately 800 years from the 5th to the 13th century.
The earliest history of the Khazars in southern Russia, prior to the middle of the 6th century, is hidden in obscurity. From about 550 to 630, the Khazars were part of the Western Turkish Empire, ruled by the Celestial Blue Turks (Kök Turks). When the Western Turkish Empire was broken up as a result of civil wars in the middle of the 7th century, the Khazars successfully asserted their independence. Yet, the Kök kaganate under which they had lived provided the Khazars with their system of government. For example, the Khazars followed the same guidelines as the Kök Turks regarding the succession of kings.
An Introduction to the History of Khazaria < click
"Most of the available information about the Khazars comes from Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Byzantine, and Slavic sources, most of which are reliable."
while you are informing everyone of your findings (racist nazi ideological trash), please contact the custodians and scholars responsible for the above sources.
please, as well, revise the history books which record scores of travelers and regional contemporaries who testified and record their own histories and observations that the Khazars were - first - pagan shamanistic gentiles, who under the influence of immigrant Rabbinic families (who married into the Khazarian Royalty and found favor in the courts) - virtually the entire nation converted to Talmudic Judaism, and over a few short generations (after destroying most remnants of their pagan past, phallic idols etc, due to their new beliefs)...ALL BEGAN TO BELIEVE THEY WERE ANCIENT ISRAELITES.
did you see where they migrated to after their final conquest and the dissolution of their Kingdom?
so, do the KHAZARS themselves CLAIM to be ancient israelites or don't they? no they DON'T.
they had some intermarriage (see site), and they migrated to various places (see site).
so, though DNA is a bogus way to determine anything to any definitive degree and there really ought to be no reason for it (unless racists need to prove racial purity or heritage for some 'important' reason), of course you are going to find SOME connection - they considered themsleves jews and married jews!
that doesn't ake them israelites and they never claimed to be.
they converted to Judaism 700 years AFTER CHRIST.
you'll find these artifacts at Khazaria.com - they are not ashamed of their heritage, but perhaps they'll believe you that their history belongs in the garbage can.
Ukrainian Prince Sviatoslav's defeat of the Khazar army c. 968 A.D.
Hexagram on Khazar shield.
.........................
The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David (Hebrew מָגֵן דָּוִד; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ [maːˈɣeːn daːˈwiːð], Tiberian [mɔˈɣen dɔˈvið], Modern Hebrew [maˈɡen daˈvid], Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid [ˈmɔɡeɪn ˈdɔvid] or Mogen Dovid) is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.[1] Its shape is that of a hexagram, the compound of two equilateral triangles. The hexagram has been in use as a symbol of Judaism since the 17th century, with precedents in the 14th to 16th centuries in Central Europe, where the Shield of David was partly used in conjunction with the Seal of Solomon (the hexagram) on Jewish flags. Its use probably derives from medieval (11th to 13th century) Jewish protective amulets (segulot).
Star of David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
maybe you should contact that website and ask them to remove 'zionist propaganda' such as -this-...
"East European Jewish ancestry originates substantially from ancient Judea, and the same is true of most other modern Jewish populations"
"The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite."
again i don't know how much longer we will be able to continue this if you aren't even reading -your own sources-
wha?
get real rachel.
oh PUKE.
it seems to me you're the one with a problem here.
saying things like palestinians are usurpers from elsewhere (DEBUNKED by the Revisonists you despise) and shouldn't take their kids out into the light of day and all that rubbish.
i HATE racial ideologies.
the point i'm making and you're deliberately sliding past is SOMEBODY is making a HUGE deal out of RACE.
guess who it is.....NOT ME.
one more guess.
so unless you can tell me how it is you reject blacks as israelites and anyone but ashkenazsim as israelites, and you do it with NEW DNA or archaelogical or linguistic data (DNA stuff STINKS of racism to begin with...why are jews of all people obsessed with it?), don't waste your time.
give me something other than STORIES. let's see evidence.
like i said, you're a couple years behind.
either that or you just reject all new data because you clicked on an early wiki debunk that barely any ashkenazism (who don't have a vested interest in this) even bother with anymore.
why do you?
get real rachel.
oh PUKE.
it seems to me you're the one with a problem here.
saying things like palestinians are usurpers from elsewhere (DEBUNKED by the Revisonists you despise) and shouldn't take their kids out into the light of day and all that rubbish.
i HATE racial ideologies.
the point i'm making and you're deliberately sliding past is SOMEBODY is making a HUGE deal out of RACE.
guess who it is.....NOT ME.
one more guess.
so unless you can tell me how it is you reject blacks as israelites and anyone but ashkenazsim as israelites, and you do it with NEW DNA or archaelogical or linguistic data (DNA stuff STINKS of racism to begin with...why are jews of all people obsessed with it?), don't waste your time.
give me something other than STORIES. let's see evidence.
like i said, you're a couple years behind.
either that or you just reject all new data because you clicked on an early wiki debunk that barely any ashkenazism (who don't have a vested interest in this) even bother with anymore.
why do you?