A Tower or Something Else?

                        

      I've been watching several videos and TV programs about the ancient past and before the Great Flood. Though I didn't believe the stuff myself (for it all seems very fantastic), the more I researched...the more it made sense. There is a popular show called "Ancient Aliens". There have also been various other documentaries about various subjects that this shows discusses. Now I myself do not believe in aliens. For Jesus died for the sins of the world...NOT the WORLDS! 

     So what am I trying to say? The past that is taught (intentionally and unintentionally) is not the correct interpretation. Mankind was extremely advanced. There are several technologies behind some of the world's greatest architectural, technological and "mythological" achievements. Such things include the Pyramid of Giza (the only pyramid with NO hieroglyphs or tombs), the Antikythera Mechanism, the Dashka Stone, the Sacsayhuaman Walls, the Baghdad Battery, the Istanbul Rocket, the London Hammer, the Grooved Spheres of South America, the Saqqara Bird, the Cosso Artifact, the Egyptian Helicopter and so forth. Most of these are being debated vigorously. Some are probably mistakes and possibly hoaxes. Creationists, evolutionists and historians all make good points. But there are many many more around the world. And the great stone structures of the world cannot be disputed...because well...they are there. I encourage the reader to google these and just familiarize yourself with them and make your own opinions. Now this blog post is based on the belief that the reader does indeed believe mankind was more advanced than we think (particularly before the Great Flood, the fallen angels had much to do with man's greatest achievements).

   This got me wondering about one structure that is not touched upon very much. The Tower of Babel. Most people think of a huge tower that goes up miles and miles into the sky. Here is what the Bible says in the New American Standard. Genesis 11: 1-5

       Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

    Now there doesn't seem to be anything real out of the ordinary here. Bricks were made, tar was used as mortar, and so forth. But there are some subtle things within the text that need to be addressed. For instance, "let us build for ourselves a city, AND a tower whose top will reach into heaven." Why would the tower be addressed separately? If you take the Bible literally, whenever something is mentioned separately....it MEANS something separate. Also it says "whose top will reach into heaven" not the heavens (which would mean the sky and/or space). They literally wanted to go into the afterlife. 

    Now were they so naive as to think that if they built a real tall structure that they would run into God Himself? I don't think so. I think they knew that heaven was another dimension, not just up in the sky somewhere. Now it could be argued that they really  thought it was just up in the sky. But in order to actually DO this, it would require a structure as big as a city. It would go miles and miles high. If this thing was being built and it was made AFTER the flood (it wouldn't be buried by sediment and rock) and in a plain...then where is it? According to the Bible...the city AND the tower were built. So...where is it? The text says its in the land of Shinar...so we know the location. Again I ask: Where is it?

   So this made me think. Perhaps this thing was a tall structure, but not as tall as we think. It was not literally going miles and miles into the sky. There was something at the top of the tower "that WILL reach into heaven." When I hear this...I think of a transporter...a dimensional gate of some sort. Or maybe even a "launch tower" of some kind. Either way the text really makes you think if you look at it closely.

    In conclusion I believe the tower was a tall (but not astronomically massive) building with a "stargate" of sorts at the top. Now could I be completely wrong about this? I could be I admit that. But I'm pretty sure of what I'm reading in the text. I guess we will all find out...when we will ALL reach heaven...through death.

The Anomalies Part 1

I figure sense this is 2012 and all the "end of the world" nuts are having a field day, that this might be a topic worth looking into. And if you look into this particular topic, you'll soon find yourself emersed in plenty of paranoia and conspiracy theories. So the big question is will the world end December 21, 2012? Most people would say no, many would say yes. But lets dig into the whole history of the 2012 date.

I did a little research on this topic several months ago. It peeked my interest....as it pertains to my destiny... and everybody elses. There are many ways of looking at this topic to be honest. If you are religious, if you are not religious, if you believe in the wisdom of the ancients, if you believe their teachings to be malarky, and so forth. But let us try to look at the facts first.

Most everyone knows that the December 21, 2012 date is a date upon the ancient Mayan calendar. This calendar is known as the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. It was used before Europeans came to the Americas. This calendar was probably made by the Olmec...but that doesn't really change anything. The December date marks the end of a "baktun." A baktun is 20 "katun" cycles of the Long Count calendar....or 144,000 days. Recently, researchers have found a series of Mayan astronomical tables in Xultun, Guatemala that plot the movement of the Moon over the course of 17 baktuns (the 2012 date marks the end of the 13th baktun). So were the Mayans wrong? Or are we just interpreting them wrong? Keep in mind the Mayans were obsessed with space and time. If anybody knew what they were talking about as far as dates go, it was them. I could go on for pages about this whole Mayan calendar but there are other points I want to discuss. (Sorry I don't know why the second half of this paragraph has a white background in the text).

The Mayans were not the only culture to predict the "end of the world" so to speak (that is if you believe the whole Long Count calendar thing was interpreted correctly).

1) The Hopi Indian tribe has a prophecy that predicated the coming of the white man, world wars, and the coming of a "fifth world." Some Hopi have said this date corresponds to the 2012 date of the Mayans. Another interesting tidbit is that the Hopi also warned man not to take anything from the Moon. That the laws of nature would be disrupted and cause great earthquakes, severe weather changes, and social unrest.

2) The Chinese also predicated a great cataclysm in the winter solstice of 2012. It comes from their most ancient text called the "I Ching" or Book of Changes. Now what is funny is that this wasn't a prophetic book in the religious sense. It was actually a kind of financial guide. Weird huh?

3) In the late 1990s the Web Bot Project was developed. It is a software program that is claimed to be able to predict future events by tracking keywords on the Internet. It was originally intended to predict stock market trends (another financial guide huh?). Supposedly this program predicated the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, etc. Though it has been wrong on other predictions. But it did predict a great happening in 2012.

There are tons more prophecies from other cultures around the world about 2012. Now most can probably be discounted as being misinterpreted, vague, or just plain malarky. But there are a few eery similarities in the ones I mentioned.

So, will the world end? I do not think the world will end...as in be destroyed completely.

A) I am a Christian and believe the Word of God. In Ecclesiastes 1:4 it states: "A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. Psalm 104:5 states "He established the earth upon its foundations, so it will not totter and last forever and ever."

B) I believe the world will endure, but will come across harsh times. But a new kingdom will be established upon the earth. Could 2012 be the year of the rapture? Well Matthew 24:36 states "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." However, if you look earlier within this chapter at verse 33 it states "even so you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door." This is a commandment. Right at the door...what does that mean exactly? Day and the hour? Is that literal? Could we actually "predict" the year sense its not "the day or hour"? Is narrowing it down to 1 year being RIGHT at the door? Guess we'll find out in time.

So all in all, I don't think the Earth will be blotted out. Could some natural world-wide disaster happen this year? Nobody can really say yes or no. I hope not, but to quote someone from an Indiana Jones movie "My soul is prepared, is yours?"