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Just who are 'the sons of God' in your Bible?

13/9/2018

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You may be surprised!

My new book, 'The People, the Sons of God (through the eyes of a Watcher' is intended to surprise and open eyes in a new way to God's grand scheme of the ages. Seen through the eyes and told through the mouth of Watcher Shaqaad, THE PEOPLE is bound to stretch, awaken...even shake you! Here is Biblical truth and history told in a new and exhilarating way.

Here's a comment from Allan Bull PhD (Macquarie Universtity Sydney)...


'The People is an enthralling and innovative approach, not only to telling old familiar stories but using narrative to portray, in a subtle but powerful way, the truth of good and evil in our world . . . There is good and evil, God and Satan, and in every human relationship/interaction and behavior a choice is to be made. The consequences, for those with the spiritual eyes to see, are clear. It is an exceptional and well written piece of work.'

And, here's a brief teaser...


‘… and too, the Creature realized, with a hence unexperienced pang at deep-in level, that the communing had evaporated and the lesser creatures looked at them now with alarm and suspicion .... and fled away! Nothing remained the same; I saw that to them, fruit tasted different and alien plants began to spring up and choke fruitful trees. Some of their favorite trees suddenly knew disease and the thing called death. Even the grasses that had adorned the ground seemed forlorn and opaque where once vibrant and almost transparent. A pervading sense of ‘less-ness’ now defined their realm and their existence as a great and indescribable pall overhung, spoiling every waking moment.

       The song too, had ceased; that sense of cooperative adventure with The Elohim, with all things blending together in verdant pleasure—where was it? WHERE WAS IT? Indeed, the silent shout from the depths of 'Dam and Chaveh was, "WHERE IS IT?" in an agony of that other thing they'd never known and I had only seen displayed in Lucifer—regret! For in their hearts they knew; and the answer came in upon them like a weight too heavy to be borne.’

Click Here for THE PEOPLE: the Sons of God (through the eyes of a Watcher)



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The Temple: over a stream in the City of David!

5/9/2018

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Ancient cities of the east boasted magnificent rivers. Nineveh had the Tigris and Babylon, the Euphrates. Such rivers gladdened the hearts of the occupants. What did Jerusalem have? No river of which to boast... or did it? 

Psalm 46:4 and 5 boast 'there is a river whose streams make glad the City of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is amidst (in the middle of) her; she shall not be moved.' Here,
the stream and the presence of God are synonymous--and--in the middle of the city (Hebrew qereb)—within!

The visible symbol of that presence was that ‘bubbling up’ stream called Gihon!

How fitting too, that the stream that typified God did not originate elsewhere and flow through or past the City of David, but bubbled forth right within HaMakom (The Place). Its source was there! From the very place where he sat enthroned in the midst of his people, Living Water and life-giving water flowed!

Gihon, as seen in the accompanying picture, is but a vestige of its former self (remember, its name means 'Gushing Forth') and that is what it once did and its force was used to propel its stream right up into the temple above.

Read 'THE PLACE HaMakom; where Jerusalem's temples stood' for more


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DID ABRAHAM OFFER ISAAC ON THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT MORIAH? WELL…No, actually!

1/9/2018

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People can become infected with ‘summit-ism’—that is, for some reason, their thinking is that Abraham must have sacrificed on the summit, Araunah (Ornan) must have had his threshing floor on the summit and, the temple must have been on the summit! The problem with this is twofold; the Bible does not say that and secondly, it’s not actually the summit!

Read the Genesis 22 text very carefully, trying not to read assumptions and hearsay back into it…
Verse 2, ‘…go the the land (or region) of Moriah and offer him…on one of the mountains I will show you.’
Verse 3, ‘…arose and went to the place (ha makom) of which God had told him.’
Verse 4, ‘…Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place (ha makom) afar off.’
Verse 9, ‘Then they came to the place (ha makom) of which God had told him.’
Verse 14, ‘…Abraham called the name of the place (ha makom) The-Lord-Will-Provide’
Also note that the latter part of verse 14 is properly translated ‘in the mountain of the Lord…’
Ha Makom—THE PLACE (the definite article, say some rabbis, was used for a reason) was later visited by Jacob who, we are told, ‘encountered the place (ha makom)’ as the sun was setting (Genesis 28:11 note, not any place, it is THE PLACE), which he went on to name Bayth-El ‘House of God’.
Notice that stricter translations of 2 Chronicles 3:1 speaking of where Solomon began to build the temple, also say ‘in Jerusalem in Mount Moriah’ (eg., Youngs, KJV, Webster’s, ERV, AKJV, Douay-Rheims, Jubilee, JPS Tanakh 1917).

As indicated the traditional Temple Mount site is not at the ‘summit’. It is at an elevation of about 740 meters and just a little further north the ground rises to 774 meters or more, near the Damascus Gate. There is a very useful map at http://en-au.topographic-map.com/places/Jerusalem-8956805/ which allows you to both enlarge and to click at any point to see the elevation.

So, if you’re going to argue that Abraham headed for a summit and Araunah sited his threshing floor at a summit and the temple was built on a summit, it is just not so!

The truth seems to be that it was ‘within’ the Mount Moriah complex that these events occurred. Abraham was directed first to a region and then to a specific place (The Place, ha makom) within that region. It is the site that became known throughout scripture as ha makom, see my book ‘THE PLACE, where Jerusalem’s temples stood.’

THE PLACE  was part of the City of David near the Gihon (‘Gushing Forth’) Spring, some 200 meters south of what became a favorite traditional site. Part of the reason for this was that the ‘summit’ idea somehow became embedded in people’s thinking.

The pictures illustrate what the enclosure, jutting into the Kidron Valley from the City of David to protect the Gihon Spring, looked like.


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What people who've read THE PLACE are saying...

Marilyn Sams - author of The Jerusalem Temple Mount Myth: Ian Heard’s book adds a unique ....aspect to the growing movement of people accepting the City of David location for the temples in Jerusalem. His perspective .....brings many insightful possibilities to the table. Especially moving are his heartfelt expressions of faith in and love for the prophets and the Savior of the world'.
Pastor, Luke Yeghnazar of the Iranian Church of Los Angeles: Wonderful book. I trust it will be distributed widely. I read it with excitement. The reader will want to know what happens next. An exciting book to be read by Christians, Jews and others.

What readers of THE PEOPLE are saying...
The People is an enthralling and innovative approach, not only to telling old familiar stories but using narrative to portray, in a subtle but powerful way, the truth of good and evil in our world . . . There is good and evil, God and Satan, and in every human relationship/interaction and behavior a choice is to be made. The consequences, for those with the spiritual eyes to see, are clear. It is an exceptional and well written piece of work.” Allan Bull, Macquarie University, Sydney.