Alot of the theories you mentioned in your article were also explored by G.H Pember in the 18,00's in his book 'Earth's earliest ages.'
Your paragraph on the scripture in Isaiah about the possible planet Rahab;
"In this interesting theory we will be playing with today is that Rahab was not Earth, but she was a planet that was destroyed between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter where the current asteroid belt exists." This could possibly tie in with the ancient Indian Sanskrit text of the Mahabharata:
Nuclear Event in Ancient India. The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent.
"A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe…An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor…it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race... The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white... After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected."
When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city. And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing? Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? Furthermore, there is no apparent cause of a physically violent death.
These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. Other cities have been found in northern India that show indications of explosions of great magnitude. One such city, found between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, seems to have been subjected to intense heat. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! And since there is no indication of a volcanic eruption at Mohenjo-Daro or at the other cities, the intense heat to melt clay vessels can only be explained by an atomic blast or some other unknown weapon. The cities were wiped out entirely. https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/mohenjo-daro-massacre-00819
And indeed “OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN & FROM IT WE AWAIT A SAVIOUR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
We do have duties & responsibilities to uphold carry out and do today as Gods people we are “a kingdom of priests, a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own special possession” so that they “may proclaim the excellencies of him who called [them] out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
Just as the Levite priests in the old Covenant/Testament had specific duties, so too does the “royal priesthood” of the New Covenant. In the Old Covenant, the priests made sacrifices for the people of God, offered incense and prayers for them, taught them God's law, judged cases, & made practical decisions about issues that were not otherwise dealt with in the Law. Today God's born again Christ Jesus & Spirit indwelt servants are all as priests of the living God do these same things, but in the context of the New Covenant.
We are to point others to the one true sacrifice of Christ. We pray for the salvation of all men (humankind). We proclaim Gods moral law, to obey the commands Jesus set out and God's Judgement. Seeking in God's Spirit to make practical decisions about living for heavenly father in today's world. Our efforts are making God, His Glory & His Kingdom known throughout the whole world.
As those who have experienced Gods favour, reconciliation forgiveness & Holy Spirit rebirth renewal regeneration and sanctification with God in Christ, are able to convey the message of God to those who are yet His enemies in language they can grasp & understand. This “we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore [all who have not yet responded positively to the Gospel] on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
Each of us has a testimony that a particular unbeliever needs to hear to be able to respond to the Gospel. In addition we ambassadors “have boldness & access with confidence through our faith in [Jesus]” to approach God on behalf of those who struggle as they seek Him. As is true of any ambassador, our primary loyalty is to the kingdom we represent. We must allow nothing to come in the way of fulfilling this responsibility.
We have many rights & duties as Christians & citizens of the Kingdom of God. The ones mentioned relate most directly to our responsibilities to the fallen world & how we are to relate to others.
We must not forget that we also possess an earthly citizenship that confers rights and duties which we must take into account. Our primary citizenship is in heaven, and whatever relationship we have with the state here on earth is temporary, secondary & subservient to our citizenship in heaven & it's call on our lives. The good we can do by expending our time, talents, & wealth on this earthly commonwealth pales in comparison to the eternal results that only come when we focus on serving Jesus in the kingdom of God.
Paul's use of His earthly Roman citizenship exercised his duties to his heavenly one. Paul never used his citizenship to try to change the Roman system by seeking a high office where he could influence the decisions of state. In view of how readily he accepted persecution at other times, we can conclude his primary reason for invoking his citizenship was not so much to protect himself as to protect the reputation & expansion of the Gospel.
Many blessings to you Robert from heavenly father in Christ Jesus and my set apart holy sisterly love to you!
I first ran into G.H Pember theory through the efforts of Timothy Alberino. Even though I describe my substack as a “mixed bag” of topics I decided to limit the topics down to a handful. This is because I could spend a lot of time on subjects like what you just brought up as well as other ancient cultures around the world.
It’s good to see other Christians willing to research and look at the ancient past. So much has been and is still being hidden that I have come to realize we are looking at a carefully crafted story when we read history.
Having said all that, I am encouraged that there is a younger generation of Christians waking up. Yes some will make serious mistakes and wander off into the occult. But there will be others whose eyes will open and become the new leaders, unburdened by some of the nonsense we now deal with.
Fascinating information! I have never heard of any of these theories. I have, however, wondered about the asteroid belt and how it came to be.
Alot of the theories you mentioned in your article were also explored by G.H Pember in the 18,00's in his book 'Earth's earliest ages.'
Your paragraph on the scripture in Isaiah about the possible planet Rahab;
"In this interesting theory we will be playing with today is that Rahab was not Earth, but she was a planet that was destroyed between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter where the current asteroid belt exists." This could possibly tie in with the ancient Indian Sanskrit text of the Mahabharata:
Nuclear Event in Ancient India. The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent.
"A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe…An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor…it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race... The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white... After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected."
When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city. And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing? Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? Furthermore, there is no apparent cause of a physically violent death.
These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. Other cities have been found in northern India that show indications of explosions of great magnitude. One such city, found between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, seems to have been subjected to intense heat. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! And since there is no indication of a volcanic eruption at Mohenjo-Daro or at the other cities, the intense heat to melt clay vessels can only be explained by an atomic blast or some other unknown weapon. The cities were wiped out entirely. https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/mohenjo-daro-massacre-00819
And indeed “OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN & FROM IT WE AWAIT A SAVIOUR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
We do have duties & responsibilities to uphold carry out and do today as Gods people we are “a kingdom of priests, a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own special possession” so that they “may proclaim the excellencies of him who called [them] out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
Just as the Levite priests in the old Covenant/Testament had specific duties, so too does the “royal priesthood” of the New Covenant. In the Old Covenant, the priests made sacrifices for the people of God, offered incense and prayers for them, taught them God's law, judged cases, & made practical decisions about issues that were not otherwise dealt with in the Law. Today God's born again Christ Jesus & Spirit indwelt servants are all as priests of the living God do these same things, but in the context of the New Covenant.
We are to point others to the one true sacrifice of Christ. We pray for the salvation of all men (humankind). We proclaim Gods moral law, to obey the commands Jesus set out and God's Judgement. Seeking in God's Spirit to make practical decisions about living for heavenly father in today's world. Our efforts are making God, His Glory & His Kingdom known throughout the whole world.
As those who have experienced Gods favour, reconciliation forgiveness & Holy Spirit rebirth renewal regeneration and sanctification with God in Christ, are able to convey the message of God to those who are yet His enemies in language they can grasp & understand. This “we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore [all who have not yet responded positively to the Gospel] on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
Each of us has a testimony that a particular unbeliever needs to hear to be able to respond to the Gospel. In addition we ambassadors “have boldness & access with confidence through our faith in [Jesus]” to approach God on behalf of those who struggle as they seek Him. As is true of any ambassador, our primary loyalty is to the kingdom we represent. We must allow nothing to come in the way of fulfilling this responsibility.
We have many rights & duties as Christians & citizens of the Kingdom of God. The ones mentioned relate most directly to our responsibilities to the fallen world & how we are to relate to others.
We must not forget that we also possess an earthly citizenship that confers rights and duties which we must take into account. Our primary citizenship is in heaven, and whatever relationship we have with the state here on earth is temporary, secondary & subservient to our citizenship in heaven & it's call on our lives. The good we can do by expending our time, talents, & wealth on this earthly commonwealth pales in comparison to the eternal results that only come when we focus on serving Jesus in the kingdom of God.
Paul's use of His earthly Roman citizenship exercised his duties to his heavenly one. Paul never used his citizenship to try to change the Roman system by seeking a high office where he could influence the decisions of state. In view of how readily he accepted persecution at other times, we can conclude his primary reason for invoking his citizenship was not so much to protect himself as to protect the reputation & expansion of the Gospel.
Many blessings to you Robert from heavenly father in Christ Jesus and my set apart holy sisterly love to you!
[Rev 1:6; 5:10; 20:6
1 Peter 2:9
2 Cor 5:16-21
Eph 3:12
Acts 16:35-40; 22:22-29; 25:6-12]
I first ran into G.H Pember theory through the efforts of Timothy Alberino. Even though I describe my substack as a “mixed bag” of topics I decided to limit the topics down to a handful. This is because I could spend a lot of time on subjects like what you just brought up as well as other ancient cultures around the world.
It’s good to see other Christians willing to research and look at the ancient past. So much has been and is still being hidden that I have come to realize we are looking at a carefully crafted story when we read history.
Having said all that, I am encouraged that there is a younger generation of Christians waking up. Yes some will make serious mistakes and wander off into the occult. But there will be others whose eyes will open and become the new leaders, unburdened by some of the nonsense we now deal with.