The above video shows shelling taking place in Syria, this and other videos on YouTube clearly show that there is no hesitation in shelling mosques.
I want to understand how the Muslim community cannot be standing up in protest, especially considering the recent events surrounding the U.S. accidental burning of the Koran and the revenge attack taken by the Taliban (clip shown below).
Although I don't abide by the burning of religious books of any sort, surely the lives being wiped out in Syria are much more important don't you think?
Elisha the son of Shaphat was anointed to be a prophet by Elijah to be his eventual successor; he was ploughing in a field when Elijah found him. From there they traveled from Gilgal to Bethel, then to Jericho, then to Jordan where Elijah planned his ascension.
Elisha asks Elijah for 'double portion of thy spirit', and he is told that it will be given if he watches Elijah ascend to heaven. After that Elisha gained new understanding, instantly able to smite and to part water, and even cursed children who mocked him, causing a bear to attack them
Elisha then traveled to Mount Carmel and then onward to Samaria. The King came seeking his help, and so a minstrel played music and the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha to tell the king what to do.
A woman later asks for help (supposeldy the wife of a son of a prophet) and Elisha helps her, afterwards he would often pass when in the area to share bread. Elisha eventually predicts that she will have a baby (after previously being barren), later on Elisha revives the boy after he dies.
King of Syria sends Naaman to Israel to be healed by the prophet, and is told to wash in the river seven times before he gets healed, and Elisha refuses payment as a reward, but his servant Gehazi runs after Naaman and takes payment, but in doing so, incurs Elisha's curse which makes him take Naaman's leprosy. Sons of prophets are moving to Jordan to make a new home and Elisha goes with them. King of Syria sends an army to besiege Dothan and fetch the prophet, but Elisha made them all blind and took them to Samaria. Elisha was able to predict the price of food, the death of various people and a seven year famine among other things. Prophets had the power to anoint a new King, even on his death bed, sick, the King came and grieved and yet Elisha left him with a prediction that he would only defeat the Syrians three times.
The Book of Enoch has survived in
various copies, although only exists in complete form in the langauge
of Ge'ez. It oldest surviving copy has been dated to have been
written somewhere between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D. , although it could
be said that it originates from earlier texts (unfortunately there is
no proof of such a statement). It was rejected by Judaism and
Christianity due to its content, despite the book being refered to by
Jude 14-15.
Indeed there are some strange things
that are said in the book which could paint a different view on some
important issue. The book basically covers the story of Enoch and
his family, mentioning his grandfather, his sons and grandsons.
The first strange notion is that
mankind was supposed to not step outside nature, and it was the
leaving of nature that brought with it a curse. In fact the Adam &
Eve story is painted totally different “tree of wisdom...they
learnt wisdom...eyes were opened...they knew that they were naked”.
The second strange notion is that it
claims the cause of the Great Flood as being something which caused a
smell of sulphur, that there was a great melting of ice which
re-froze afterwards (a melting of the ice caps?). A third
suggestions was that there is amention that they did not eat blood,
basically meaning that they were all vegetarians.
The book also contains detailed
knowledge of days of the year, varying lengths of the days between
winter and summer, with reference to portals (maybe some stone
alignment like Stone Henge), carries on to explain the moon cycles in
the year and another planetary object (most likely mars), also aware
of Solar Storms that work in cycles of varying violence.
Many people struggle with the idea that Noah actually existed, and if you are a skeptic, I wish nothing more than you read this article with an open mind, why? Because the story of the Great Flood is document in over 2000 ancient documents, existing not only in Christian records but many other cultures.
The story of the Great Flood tells us that when Noah was 500 he had three sons Shem, Ham, Japheth. Noah was given instructions on how to build the ark including size, height, waterproofing (300cubits X 50 cubits X 30 cubits, 3 stories high). The ark was to hold Noah, his wife, his three sons with their wives, 8 people in all.
(Please note 1cubit=21.88inches)
He was told to gather food for the journey, told to save the animals, and that it will rain for 40 days to cause a flood, the flood happened in his 600th year, the water rose by fifteen cubits? although it states mountains were covered, the waters stayed high for 150 days.
Afterwards, Noah and sons told to replenish the earth, Noah lived 350 years after flood (total 950) and as grandsons and great grandsons were born, they spread out and formed settlements They are recorded as spreading out to all countries, to the isles, to the east and west. This links in to an alternative story of Sambethe who is said to have been part of Noah's family, actually rumoured to be Noah's daughter in law, Sambethe moved to Greece and founded the Sibyl sisterhood. Other documents such as the Book of Enoch tells how Enoch (Noah's grandfather) was the one who was told about the coming flood, and that when Noah was born as an albino, it was seen as a sign that the flood would happen during Noah's lifetime, making him to be the one to survive the Great flood.
Most non-believers call this story nonsense, despite the existence of the Ark being noted during the Greek Empire, in fact scientists are said to have identified sites which could be the Ark, found in Turkey near the border with Afghanistan. The picture above is from the first site, and I have actually attended a lecture from the discoverer of the site. His arguments and evidence are surprisingly believable. The second site was supposedly discovered by a Chinese expedition to the area, the video below is supposed to be what they found.
These claims have been totally rebuked by the scientific community, first claiming that the Chinese built a wooden structure on the mountain and then froze it with ice, how convenient, especially when the site is located on a cliff far above where machinery can go!(at 12000ft) So when that argument failed, they moved on to other ways to call it into disrepute. I want to ask why !! Here is a valid theory and a valid site to investigate, isn't that the job that scientists are supposed to do??
The story of Enoch the Scribe is only briefly mentioned in the Bible, yet his story is told elsewhere such as the Book of the Giants. For this article I will refer only to that which is said about Enoch in the Book of Enoch and the Fragment of the Book of Noah. He was seventh generation from Adam and also the grandfather of Noah.
The story starts as two hundred angels descended from heaven following
the one but bound by an agreement to him, the angels took women and taught them
secrets of herbology, astrology, forging of metals, how to write and other secrets. But
the women gave birth to giants who could not be sustained by the
supplies of the community, so the giants turned against men, making
war.
So Enoch was given visions and was told that because of the wickedness the Deluge would come to punish the wicked. So he was given power over the 200 and the wicked and he took the message to declare the coming
destruction to the two hundred, the giants and the wicked. But they pleaded with him for mercy, and so he promised them to make a petition of their
behalf. But their petition was refused and their fate was decided.
The story carries on, telling how he sought wisdom "I wish to know about everything" and so angels come and start to teach him knowledge about everything., although sometimes the vision become too much for him to bear. He is shown the places where the 200 will go for imprisonment. He is shown where souls go after death, the good separated from the bad and is shown how the spirits of the giants will become the evil spirits as they are neither man nor angel (angel as in the 200).
Then he was shown all the secrets of the
earth and the universe, the laws of the universe and then a vision of the end of all things. He is then shown the future, of the one who will be like the Lamb (Jesus) and everything that happens between the deluge and Jesus concerning his descendants. One prophecy relates to the moon changing orbit and stars changing position suggesting a polar shift.
At the end Enoch spoke to his family in regards
to all his knowledge, and his son Methuselah is taught and given Enoch's books of knowledge and from there Noah is taught, books are to be
kept safe to ensure safety for future, one book contains a complete
doctrine of wisdom. Then he was taken from the earth and did not die like all other men.
"I see the drain of a bath, water twirling in circles, woman with long hair..." 1(ii)
"A woman in difficulty, devotion of her followers, invade her personal space, she lacks trust in honesty, and problems grow, with an ever growing need for freedom, she needs to do something to make a muffled voice heard, before suffocation" 3 (x)
She was born on Feb12th in Blain, France. She was the eldest of five children, a large peasant family, and later joined the Franciscan Third Order. She also reported apparitions through which she received prophecies about the end of the world, punishment for the sins of the people, the destruction of Paris through civil war, and the coming of Antichrist.
At the age of twenty-three she fell ill and became closer to death, where she claimed to have been given a choice to live on, but only if she bore the stigmata sign, which from that moment appeared and stayed on her body as well as other signs until her death. According to the testimony of witnesses, she experienced supernatural attacks from the devil, had the gift of prophecy and miracles, the miracles varied from being able to tell holy bread from normal bread, being able to see into the past of relics and even the ability to levitate.
Marie-Julie predicted numerous chastisements for sin that would fall first on France then spread to the rest of the world. These include: earthquakes, unprecedented destruction through storms, failed harvests, unknown plagues that would spread rapidly plus the cures for them, a "Blood Rain" that would fall for seven weeks, civil war in France that apparently would be started by conspirators in the government, the persecution of the Catholic Church with the total closure of all churches and religious houses(some could claim that this is currently in progress with the church being brought down by the behavior of its own priests), persection and slaughter of Christians, the destruction of Paris, a Two Day period of Darkness that would come circa a month before the Three Days of Darkness. The coming of the Great Monarch would also be announced by signs in the sky. She also had visions of the Angelic Pontiff who would reign at the same time of the Great Monarch, and that both these great leaders were destined to restore the Catholic Church
As I continue my research into the Mirabilis liber which was published in 1522, I wish to talk about a set of prophecies that appear in the book under the author name of St Gregory the Great. But the document can be linked to an earlier publication that was attributed to that of Merlin, hence a conclusion that the collector of the Mirabilis liber chose to either disguise the name for some purpose... or simply had presumed incorrectly.
So why would prophecies from the source of Merlin be false? As discussed previously, the character of 'Merlin' originates from a welsh person from the 6th century called Myrddin Wyllt, who had made a mess of his own prophecies and was driven to madness and lived in the wild as a crazed man. Therefore any written prophecies said to originate from this source must have been faked or copied from elsewhere. Yet as I studied the prophecies, they actually foretold things that have happened;
"born of a tree a bird"
(seems to predict the invention of the plane)
[the plane] "shall wander around all those deserts killing the evil beasts"
(seems to predict planes hitting enemies, possibly the Iraq wars)
"truly even the Indies shall share in it, and know that the sea shall rise greatly and miraculously"
(seems to predict the devastating tsunami on 26th Dec 2004)
Paracelcus was born with the original name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, probably the longest name I have ever heard. He was a German-Swiss physician and during his life he was linked to botany, alchemy, astrology and the occults. He took the name of Paracelcus, which meant 'equal to or greater than Celsus', Celsus being the 1st century Roman Aulus Cornelius Celsus, possibly a man to which Paracelsus was inspired by.
Paracelcus made vast contributions to toxicology, psychotherapy, medicine and philosophy and inspired such people as Jacob Boehme. He traveled widely across Europe, Africa and Asia Minor with the goal of finding hidden knowledge. Many rumours circulated about his knowledge, and he was highlighted as possibly being the true identity of a major alchemist Christian Rosenkreutz.
He published a number of manuscripts during his lifetime, most notably for me, was the manuscript called Prognostications in 1536 which depicts prophecies and cryptic images. However Paracelcus had a reputation for being arrogant, inciting anger by publicly burning medical books.
If you would like to read more about Prognostications CLICK HERE
This ancient document was written by Peter Auriol (d.1322) in 1319, he was a member of the Franciscan order and lectured in Bologna and Toulouse. Auriol believed that the seven seals represented the span of events from Christ through to Judgement Day. Specifically he looked at the tribulations of the early church and Identified the tribulations with the seven seals leading up to about 363A.D.
Auriol believed that the angel mentioned in the sixth seal is actually Constantine, and the events below symbolized the seals;
1st seal > The spread of the gospel after Jesus (33-53A.D.)
2nd seal > Persecution of the early church (54-68A.D.)
3rd seal > The destruction of Jerusalem (69-80A.D.)
4th seal > A second persecution (81-96A.D.)
5th seal > The seven consecutive persecutions (98-275A.D.)
Na Prous Boneta (d.1328) made her confession before an Inquisition in 1325, she was associated with a break away group which had become convinced that they were living in the end times.
Boneta believed that all seven seals had been opened during her own lifetime, and applied the characters in the Book of Revelations to people of her time. She identified the two witnesses as being Francis of Assisi and Olivi, and that the current pope, Pope John XXII was actually the Antichrist! Whats more unbelievable is that she goes on to identify herself as the woman that appears in Revelations 12, and that she seen herself as the only one worthy of opening the seals.
It is easy to see why she had been brought before the Inquisition for her beliefs, yet, it is interesting to see that even back in the 14th Century there was those who believed that they lived in the end times, a belief which re-occurs over and over even to the present day, and it also shows how wrongly people can interpret prophecies.
Savonarolo was born in Ferrara in Northern Italy into a highly respected family, he took up studying many sources such as the Bible and Aristotle and studied at the University of Ferrara where he took an Arts degree. By the age of twenty he had already written a number of poems including 'On the Downfall of the World' and due to his expression of a corrupt clergy 'On the Downfall of the Church'.
He went on to become a Dominican friar in 1475 and joined a monastery in Bologna before transferring to Florence, he did return however to further his studies and become a master. Upon his return to Florence, he seemed as if a new person, he became obsessed with preaching about the Last days (end times) and made statements about visions and prophecies. He did not want to break away from the Catholic church but rather to fix the corruption from within. When some of his major predictions came true, it elevated him to great success, resulting in him becoming the new leader of Florence in 1494.
Once in power, he declared it a new Christian republic and set about to change the laws including forcing homosexuals from the city and burning books, art-works, statues, mirrors and anything that was morally questionable.
In 1497, Pope Alexander VI excommunicated him and the next year demanded the arrest and execution of Savonarolo. A crowd attacked his Convent, his supporters and guards killed, and he was charged with heresy, prophecy, sedition and other crimes called religious errors. He was viciously tortured, they inflicted pain on his whole body except his writing arm, so that he could sign a confession which he eventually did, although later he sought forgiveness from God for confessing to something he did not do. He was then taken out to where he had burnt the books, where he was burnt alive to the point where there was nothing left but dust.
