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'THE PLACE' 'THE PEOPLE' 'THE PERSON' & 'THE FUSION' form a four book 'Quadrilogy'. More below...

19/5/2026

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1. After Eden, God chose a new site in which and from which His presence and activity in the world would centre.
To the Patriarchs it became of central importance. It was where God led Abraham to offer Isaac. It was where Jacob saw the angelic hosts on the stairway. It was to be, ultimately, where the presence of God would dwell in the Temple in the City of David.
It became reverentially spoken of as 'HaMakom'--The Place or The Site, and we know it was important because that term is used repetitively for emphasis in the Hebrew patriarchal accounts and all through the Old Testament.
'THE PLACE HaMakom; Where Jerusalem's Temples Stood', (together with an adjunct e-book 'The Temple Quest') tell the story of that special site, from Adam to the New Testament.
It is a thrilling journey of discovery!

(The TEMPLE QUEST e-book is available from KOBO, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books and Smashwords). TEMPLE QUEST provides proof of the Temple location in the City of David using scripture only!

2. Once having chosen the site around which His plan would unfold, God then chose a people through whom to unfold it. It was a plan to redeem a people who would be known as 'Benei Ha Elohim'--Sons of God. This term is used through the Old Testament to distinguish those who seek after God from those who reject Him: they are called 'Benei Adam'.
'THE PEOPLE'-- sub-titled The Sons of God (through the eyes of a Watcher), traces the trajectory of those becoming Sons of God all the way though the Bible until John writes 'Behold what manner of love ... that we should be called the sons of God'!
The story is presented in the first-person perspective of an imagined Watcher being, who has observed the trajectory of the two streams throughout time -- The sons of Man, and The sons of God'.
You'll find it an enthralling perpsective!

3. Then comes 'THE PERSON' with the sub-title 'I Wisdom (God in the Time Realm)'
This time, written from the perspective of the One known in scripture as Wisdom. It unfolds the story of incarnation of the One known as Wisdom and Logos. Not only has the One known as Wisdom made time His realm, but He has continued to invade it to call humankind back to Himself. Indeed, He eventually invaded as Wisdom made Human to complete an astonishing work in which all may be included as His brand new creation!

4. Finally, 'THE FUSION' (sub-titled Israel in a Biblical End-Time Scenario) proposes that Saul of Tarsus--steeped as he was in the Hebrew scriptures and Torah--becoming Paul the apostle, evangelist, apologist, is a 'type', indeed the archetype for the ultimate turning of Israel to Messiah Yeshua!
On scriptural foundations and integrity the book builds the 'archetype' case, culminating in an exciting scenario to show how some of the baffling prophecies of Zechariah and other prophets may come to a profound conclusion.

These books can be read as stand-alone or as a Quadrilogy.
Links for purchasing are in the Titles above and the images below
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GOING 'UP' TO THE TEMPLE...

12/1/2026

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Have you noticed? In the scriptures it's always 'up' to the Temple. No-one ever went 'down' or even 'over to' the Temple!

Cambridge and Oxford students always 'go up' to their respective schools. Here the word 'up' has nothing to do with geography or altitude. It refers rather, to the status accorded these fabled institutes of 'higher' education. To be expelled from these centers of learning was to be 'sent down.'

In like manner, the temple (the site known from antiquity as The Place or HaMakom in Hebrew) was always 'up'. In 2 Chronicles 5:2 ff. the Levites took the ark out of  the City of David and 'up to the temple'--because the temple is always 'up'. This does not mean, as some conclude, that the Temple was remote from the City of David and up the hill. Solomon brought the ark and the furnishings 'out of' the secular, unsanctified environment of the City of David and up to their separated and holy environment within the temple.
In any case, the temple had steps leading up into it that the Levites did indeed have to ascend. The same status can be seen throughout scripture: in Jesus' parable in Luke 18:10 the two men 'went up to the temple to pray'  and in Acts 3:1 'Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer'.
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‘…GOD WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID’

1/1/2026

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(Referencing Luke 1:31-33)
 
Now this is an extraordinary statement from Gabriel to Mary!
But then—we would hardly expect an archangel to deliver trivia!
 
This child to be born of Mary was to occupy the throne of His earthly—and lineal ‘father’—David.
 
We may spiritualise this into near oblivion—or we may believe that this means nothing less than an eventual rulership of Jesus Messiah over a redeemed remnant of His originally called people, into whom have been grafted post-Calvary believers, the New Covenant believers.
 
This is what I believe. It is mysterious—even haunting in its potential realisation.
 
Let me know what you consider truth, and—For more on this theme, see my book ‘THE FUSION: Israel in a Biblical End-time Scenario’.
 

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WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT ZION (or TZION)?

26/11/2025

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The extraordinary place known as Tzion (or Zion)...
 
We first encounter it as SALEM in the record of Abraham after the recovery of Lot’s family from the alliance of kings who had raided Sodom.
The king of Sodom came to meet and thank Abraham in the King’s Valley—that is, Kidron Valley on the east of today’s Jerusalem—ancient Salem.
The mysterious Yahweh-worshipping king/priest of Salem also came out and Abraham offered him a tenth of the spoil he had taken.
 
The settlement called Salem was located there because of the ancient spring known as Gihon, meaning ‘gushing forth’.
It’s a long story, but after Israel’s sojourn in Egypt, followed by 40 years of wilderness folly, Joshua led them into the land long ago promised to Abraham.
 
The site featured early in the patriarchal narratives and came to be known as The Site or The Place—HaMakom in Hebrew. In my view it was where Jacob had his vision/dream and where earlier, Abraham had come on his mission of obedience with Isaac. Its importance is highlighted in true Hebrew form in those narratives by the almost tedious repetition of the term HaMakom. (For information on this almost tedious Hebrew repetition for emphasis, see my e-book ‘THE TEMPLE QUEST’ …details on Home Page) at https://www.until-we-see.com/
 
God had His eye on this place, The Place. It was set apart by Him. It was there, after his extraordinary dream at HaMakom that Jacob declared, “this is the Beyt-El”…in our language “this is Bethel—House of God”!
 
Now we’re getting close to why this site is special.
But—what is significant in God’s plan, of course, attracts the attention of the adversary, and all of Israel’s enemies. And so, in time it became occupied by a Canaanite clan known as the Jebusites whose name means ‘to tread down’ or ‘to trample’.
This special place upon which God had his eye—was now a stronghold resisting Israel’s claim for many years…until David!
 
The Jebusites, who had enclosed the legendary spring with a great wall (see picture) mocked David from the walls; “you’ll never get in here—even the blind and lame will repel you!” But, as 2 Samuel 5:7 reveals with a wonderful…’NEVERTHELESS, David took the stronghold of ZION, that is, the City of David’.
So here emerges a new name. David’s commander Joab got into the fortress via the ‘tsinnor’ or water tunnel—that is, via the Gihon Spring water system. (I believe it’s a possibility that this first mention of Zion, or more correctly Tzion, derives from the word Tsinnor or Tzinnor describing the spring and its gushing stream of life-giving water).
 
In Psalm 42, those exiled with David due to Absolom’s actions are dispirited and long for the sounds of joy and praise—and of the ‘waterspouts’ or ‘cataracts.’ That word again is Tsinnor and I believe what the writer is expressing is his longing to be back in Zion where the roar of Gihon’s flow deep below the city walls where David had erected his tent for the ark, reflected the deep yearning of his own heart for God; ‘deep calls to deep at the sound of your tsinnors’!
 
Be that as it may, the truth is that the place known before David by the sad name ‘downtrodden’ or ‘trampled’ becomes Zion and the place of invigoration and encouragement. It becomes God’s City, from whence the voice of the Lord will sound forth! ‘They shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel’ (Isaiah 60:14); ‘for the law shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem (Micah 4:2 and Isaiah 2:3); ‘the Lord roars from Zion and lifts His voice from Jerusalem (Amos 1:2; Joel 3:16) and in further scriptures God’s dwelling place is in Zion; He blesses from Zion and holds forth His sceptre from Zion.
 
We cannot diminish the strategic importance of Zion in God’s agenda.
That is why I believe that this place that both God and David had in their hearts—this Zion, which is the City of David—is where Solomon built the temple. Yes, in the City of David—which in their times was still limited to the south-east ridge of the Mount Moriah complex!
It’s no good pretending that Zion now embraces the so-called Temple Mount enclosure. No, Zion signifies a very specific spot, related to Gihon Spring representing the life-giving or living water.
The great walled enclosure several hundred metres to the north was the later Roman Fortress Antonia housing the Legio X Fretensis—the Tenth Roman Legion. It was not built by Solomon and its western wall is not related to the temple of which Jesus said, “not one stone will be left upon another.”
 
Here is what is important to me: that somewhat insignificant stronghold, having life-giving water as its raison-d’être and held so long by people characterised by the awful name Downtreaders was transformed by the king (David) who typified the Greater King to come. It was transformed into a place of lifting up.
 
It became the dwelling place, the home, the ‘fortress’, of God—the One who lifts up—and who lifts downtreaders and downtrodden alike.
How like God in His transforming work.
 
In the same way, His ‘Jerusalem to come’—the new, spiritual one which is coming down—will consist of both downtreaders and downtrodden alike, who’ve been made new in Jesus Christ and ‘like a Bride adorned for her Husband’—you know—the One who said in the same place, “behold, I make all things new!” (Revelation 21. Ponder also Hebrews 12:22-24).

The pictures above illustrate what the Jebusite stronghold which became the City of David, looked like in very early times. The second pic retains the walled outline of the ancient City of David superimposed over its appearance today.
 
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ISRAEL—AN END TIME SCENARIO…

27/8/2025

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In our day, Israel is loved and loathed, blessed and cursed. There is much speculation about what is to become of her.
 
When we read the words of Zechariah or Jeremiah or Ezekiel—and then of Paul in Romans, we can be left wondering.
It is one thing to speculate about how a prophecy will be fulfilled, but there can only absolutely be certainty after the event. For example, Matthew frequently wrote, ‘this was to fulfil the words spoken by Isaiah’ or some other prophet.
At Pentecost, Peter was able, in a kind of ‘aha’ experience, to declare, “THIS IS THAT which was spoken by the prophet Joel…”
 
Needless to say, there will one day be many similar ‘aha’ moments about Israel as last days events unfold!
 
In my book ‘THE FUSION: Israel in a Biblical End-Time Scenario’ I pre-empt one of those possible ‘aha’ experiences with an explanation of how, for example the remarkable words of Zechariah about those days, may unfold.
 
I also propose that Saul, the anti-Christian zealot, who became Paul the apostle after his extraordinary encounter with the risen Christ whom he persecuted—is a ‘type’ or example in embryo of what will come about for his wider people. Many will have an encounter and epiphany not unlike his, in which they ‘look on Him whom they pierced’ as Zechariah 12:10 informs us!
 
Get this exciting read now, in paperback or kindle/e-book, and take the journey with me into the exciting ‘aha’ territory to unfold in the not-too-distant future.

Here's an excerpt from a Review by Professor W A Liebenberg...
‘The author beautifully captures the central theme of the book with a focus on the Biblical principle of Paul as the firstfruits and a representation of a re-grafted Israel. The analogy drawn between Paul's transformation from Saul of Tarsus to a believer in Christ and the potential for the "broken off" Israelite people to undergo a similar spiritual renewal is both insightful and thought-provoking.
 
The idea that God's hand remains sovereign over those who may have been temporarily set aside, just as He was with Saul, is a powerful message of hope and redemption. The comparison between Israel's historical wilderness experience due to unbelief and their current state of gradual restoration through recognition and acceptance of their Messiah is a poignant reflection on the overarching theme of faith, perseverance, and divine providence.’
 
Professor W A Liebenberg, Therapon University




 


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THE TEACHER'S PET and WHAT IS TO BECOME OF ISRAEL?

25/8/2025

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As no other group, those known as the Jews seem to polarise the world into extremes of love or hatred. There are not many who are ambivalent about the Jews.

Why is it so? Is it akin to the ‘Teacher’s Pet’ syndrome most of us understood or witnessed in Primary/Elementary School? A particular student appeared to get more attention or praise from a teacher than others—or seemed to go after that attention more than others.
Others who were perhaps jealous, hated or ridiculed the percieved ‘teacher’s pet’!

With the Jews, Biblical history shows them as chosen—for a purpose, and therefore, ‘special’. Is it this special-ness that irritates the others—and especially those ignorant of God’s ways and grand plan?
I believe that is certainly a significant part of it—but what is to become of those known as the Jewish people? Are they still a people? Has God finished with them?
Not according to Saul the Zealot who became Paul the Jewish apostle to the Gentiles, who has many extraordinary things to say about his own people.
In fact, according to this writer, he saw himself as an example, or ‘type’—actually the ‘Archetype’ of his people.
Just as he, as the ‘Archetype’, suddenly (blindingly) saw the truth about the Messiah, whose followers he mocked and persecuted, will his people come to a similar epiphany, and trun to the One they had pierced?

In this book, 'THE FUSION: Israel in a Biblical End-Time Scenario’, I reveal how some of the extraordinary prophecies of say, Zechariah or Ezekiel or Jeremiah may be brought to pass—remembering that Biblical prophecy is often seen at its fulfillment as a kind of ‘Aha’ experience such as that of Peter at Pentecost when he said, “this is that which was spoekn by gthe prophet Joel.”
Will there be a similar experience, recognised almost in after-sight as Jewish people, not just in Israel, but the world over, have an encounter with their very much alive ‘Messiah’?

Professor W A Liebenberg of Therapon University says (excerpt from longer review),
‘The author beautifully captures the central theme of the book with a focus on the Biblical principle of Paul as the firstfruits and a representation of a re-grafted Israel. The analogy drawn between Paul's transformation from Saul of Tarsus to a believer in Christ and the potential for the "broken off" Israelite people to undergo a similar spiritual renewal is both insightful and thought-provoking.
The idea that God's hand remains sovereign over those who may have been temporarily set aside, just as He was with Saul, is a powerful message of hope and redemption. The comparison between Israel's historical wilderness experience due to unbelief and their current state of gradual restoration through recognition and acceptance of their Messiah is a poignant reflection on the overarching theme of faith, perseverance, and divine providence.'

A must-read for these troubled days in the Middle East. Available at all the usual places in paperback, Kindle etc, but here it is at Amazon Australia 
Or Amazon USA

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ZION PLOWED LIKE A FIELD?

27/9/2024

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If the photograph at left above of what was once the ancient City of David area (which David himself called Zion) brings anything to mind it must surely be this passage from the prophet Micah…
‘Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’ (Micah 3:12 and also recorded by Jeremiah in Jer. 26:18)

The first picture is from the very early 20th Century and shows the ridge of the old City of David area (where the temples actually stood) as small agricultural fields.

It was not until the 1920’s and 30’s (second picture) that buildings began to appear and flourish.
It is reasonable to assume it had stood as wasteland or fields for centuries before that!

(The third picture is what it is like today)
See my e-book 'THE TEMPLE QUEST' which demonstrates from the scriptures where the Temple actually stood!
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THE REPETITIVE SIGNIFICANCE IN THE BIBLE OF HA MAKOM, 'The Site' or 'The Place'

15/8/2024

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To quote a Hebrew language scholar, Professor Yoel Elitzur, who comments on the phenomenon as follows…
‘Hamakom in Genesis
Once we understand the significance of “the place,” we can see that this keyword – hamakom – is a keyword that is emphasized in the stories of the patriarchs in the book of Genesis as well. It appears in the story of the binding of Isaac and in Jacob’s Bethel narrative. The proof that the prominent role of the word hamakom in these passages is no coincidence lies in the fact that often, the word is stressed in the Biblical text much more than what would be linguistically reasonable. That is to say, there are several instances in Genesis where the word hamakom makes it difficult to understand the simple meaning of the verse. The Torah says:

Jacob left Beer-Sheba, and set out for Haran. He came upon that place (bamakom) and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place (hamakom), he put it under his head and lay down in that place (bamakom). (Genesis 28:10-11).
The word appears again shortly thereafter: “Surely the Lord is present in this place (bamakom)… How awesome is this place (hamakom)! This is none other than the abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven” (28:16-17).’ (End quote).

We should also note that in the following verse, 18, we are told ‘and he called the place (hamakom), Bethel’--(Beyt-El) meaning ‘house of God.’ More on this shortly.
The, in the episode of Abraham with Isaac in Genesis 22, as also noted by Professor Elitzur we see a similar repetition. We see in verse 3, that he, ‘arose and went to hamakom of which God had told him.’ In verse 4, ‘Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw hamakom afar off’. In verse 9 they arrive at hamakom and then in verse 14, Abraham calls the name of hamakom, ‘Yahweh Yireh—the LORD provides.’

We see the same repetitious use in Genesis 35 when Jacob, with his family, comes from Padan Aram and returns to Bethel at God’s command. Here it is…

In verse 7, ‘he built an altar there and called hamakom, El Bethel’ (‘God of the House of God’) and God appeared again to him there.’ In verses 13 through 15, ‘God went up from him in hamakom where he had talked with him. So, Jacob set up a pillar in hamakom where he talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it and he poured oil on it. And Jacob called hamakom where God spoke with him, Bethel.’
The revealing of these awkward repetitions in the Hebrew leads to an obvious conclusion: HaMakom at the time of setting down the record had already become embedded in the consciousness of Patriarchs and people as a site of significance.

SO... where was this special site? It was the area about the Gihon Spring as I explain in 'THE TEMPLE QUEST' using Biblical references only. GET THE E-BOOK AT ANY OF THE BELOW LINKS...

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MORE CLUES TO THE LOCATION OF JERUSALEM'S TEMPLE

20/6/2024

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In addition to all the clear biblical evidence provided in 'THE TEMPLE QUEST' eBook there are many further, though perhaps less prominent biblical clues in other places such as 2 Chronicles 20:28 and 27:3.



Ophel is the area in foreground above picture
Considering the above references...
2 Chronicles 20 describes the victory of good king Jehoshaphat of Judah against the threatening Moabites and Ammonites.
God gives a great victory to Jehoshaphat's army which had gone out with the singers in the lead bringing praise to God!
Upon Jehoshaphat's and the peoples' joyful return, we read 'so they entered Jerusalem with stringed instruments and trumpets, INTO the house of the Lord'. This is how the Hebrew reads and the Septuagint version has it 'and they entered into Jerusalem with lutes and harps and trumpets, into the house of the Lord'

We can see that Jerusalem and the temple are one--to be in Jerusalem is effectively to be in the temple. They did not have to enter the City of David and then journey up the hill from the city to the alleged temple site.
Looking at 2 Chronicles 27:3 we see that king Jotham 'built the upper gate of the house of the Lord and on the wall of Ophel he built much'.
The strong allusion here is that these two locations are adjacent. Since we know where Ophel is (between the City of David and the alleged 'Temple Mount') a reasonable conclusion is that the 'Upper Gate' of the temple was in the vicinity of Ophel.
If so, the temple could not be north of Ophel!

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WAS THE DRAMATIC CONVERSION of SAUL of TARSUS EMBRYONIC OF AN EVENTUAL TURNING FOR ISRAEL?

24/5/2024

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In a world of heightened Middle East tensions, Christians are asking, “What is to become of Israel? Does God still have a plan for the people he once called ‘the apple of my eye’?”
With refreshing clarity Ian Heard proposes that God has provided, in that self-described Pharisee and zealot Saul of Tarsus, a “type”—indeed, an archetype, for his people. In his turning, under the sovereign hand of the Almighty, Saul became Paul, the great missionary-evangelist to the gentile world. In addition he became pastor, theologian, apologist, and defender of the faith. In that event and life, God has given us, in embryo, a beautiful illustration, or “type,” of a far larger and greater turning for Israel.
On solid scriptural foundations and integrity, culminating in an exciting scenario, Ian Heard shows how some of the baffling prophecies of Zechariah and others may come to a profound conclusion in,
‘THE FUSION: Israel in a Biblical End-Time Scenario’

Here’s an excerpt from Prof W A Liebenberg’s review of The Fusion…
‘The author, in this foundational work, THE FUSION: Israel in a Biblical End Time Scenario, lays down clear truths to the confusing array of interpretations and viewpoints that cause many Believers to be confounded.
 
The author beautifully captures the central theme of the book with a focus on the Biblical principle of Paul as the firstfruits and a representation of a re-grafted Israel. The analogy drawn between Paul's transformation from Saul of Tarsus to a believer in Christ and the potential for the "broken off" Israelite people to undergo a similar spiritual renewal is both insightful and thought-provoking.
 
The idea that God's hand remains sovereign over those who may have been temporarily set aside, just as He was with Saul, is a powerful message of hope and redemption.’ END QUOTE

Get The Fusion from Amazon HERE, from Amazon Australia HERE, or from the Publisher as Paperback or eBook HERE    

Kindle edition HERE
 
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