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The End as was the Beginning

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I was just over in the Origins Theology forum and made this post.

I didn't discuss this there as the topic was the tower of babel and I didn't want to take it too far off track. But in doing some research for pictures of those I posted I noticed something I thought we could talk about reasonably here. First some verses.

From the wisest man who ever lived, the wisdom of Solomon

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
And Isaiah wrote of the L-RD saying:

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
And from the beloved prophet Daniel 12:

"At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people--everyone whose name is found written in the book--will be delivered.
We are told about the beginning of nations in Chapter 10 of Genesis and in the story of the tower of Babel. This was the beginning of nations because the people disobeyed the commandment to disperse and spread across the earth and instead stayed together and Nimrod lead them into rebellion against G-d. So he had to divide them first by language, and then by land.


First from Genesis 37 (the Beginning)

1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." 8 His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said. 9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me." 10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?" 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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Now at that time Rachel had already been dead for sometime. Yet Jacob mentions her. Perhaps he was using 'mother' in a generic sense of all the mothers of his children? Jacob recognizes this is representative of

1. the sun (Jacob)
2. the moon, (Mothers)
3. eleven stars (Josephs eleven brothers)

And now from Revelation 12

1 A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
This woman, can be none other than Israel. It was Israel that gave birth to the man child, the Messiah. He is to rule all the nations in the future, but right now this man child is in heaven, being 'taken up' there to be with G-d until it is time.

This woman is clothed with the Sun (Jacob) and the moon is at her feet (now this is actually played out in the heavens but for now the moon represents the women who gave birth to Israel. And Israel is represented by the crown she wears, which has twelve stars and represents her (Israel's ) 12 male children.

Now take a look at the new Euro

THE EURO BANKNOTES are to be given a redesign to include the image of the Greek mythological figure of Europa, the ECB has confirmed.
ECB president Mario Draghi this afternoon confirmed that the banknotes would be given an overhaul, beginning with the €5 note, of which the new notes will begin circulation in May 2013. The new design will include Europa’s likeness in their watermarks and in the hologram that appears down the side of the notes


New €5 Euro Banknote from Second Series - YouTube


Notice in the middle the symbol for the EU, TWELVE STARS and with the hologram you have 'Europa' the woman on the beast of Zeus, both looking towards the twelve stars.



Here is the pic of the statue of 'Europa' riding the beast, Zeus I posted in the other thread in case you didn't see it.



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Notice how she is sitting, and how there is a 'Cherub' whispering in her ear and the bull seems to be riding over the sea (notice the dolphins which are found in the Mediterranean as well as many other waters around the world)


So what do you think this all means?


Daniel:


Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea.
Revelation


And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea. [The Beast out of the Sea] And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.


Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
 

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I've been hearing a lot of talk with Christians and so on that the Anti-Christ will come from Europe. I always believed the spirit of the Anti-Christ was already here...and I'm still pondering if a "Man figure" will actually be the Anti-Christ.


I'm still waiting for the 2 prophets to pop up in Israel sometime and start preaching. :p
 
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I was just over in the Origins Theology forum and made this post.

I didn't discuss this there as the topic was the tower of babel and I didn't want to take it too far off track. But in doing some research for pictures of those I posted I noticed something I thought we could talk about reasonably here. First some verses.

From the wisest man who ever lived, the wisdom of Solomon

And Isaiah wrote of the L-RD saying:

And from the beloved prophet Daniel 12:

We are told about the beginning of nations in Chapter 10 of Genesis and in the story of the tower of Babel. This was the beginning of nations because the people disobeyed the commandment to disperse and spread across the earth and instead stayed together and Nimrod lead them into rebellion against G-d. So he had to divide them first by language, and then by land.


First from Genesis 37 (the Beginning)

1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." 8 His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said. 9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me." 10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?" 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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EU flag
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Now at that time Rachel had already been dead for sometime. Yet Jacob mentions her. Perhaps he was using 'mother' in a generic sense of all the mothers of his children? Jacob recognizes this is representative of

1. the sun (Jacob)
2. the moon, (Mothers)
3. eleven stars (Josephs eleven brothers)

And now from Revelation 12

This woman, can be none other than Israel. It was Israel that gave birth to the man child, the Messiah. He is to rule all the nations in the future, but right now this man child is in heaven, being 'taken up' there to be with G-d until it is time.

This woman is clothed with the Sun (Jacob) and the moon is at her feet (now this is actually played out in the heavens but for now the moon represents the women who gave birth to Israel. And Israel is represented by the crown she wears, which has twelve stars and represents her (Israel's ) 12 male children.

Now take a look at the new Euro

THE EURO BANKNOTES are to be given a redesign to include the image of the Greek mythological figure of Europa, the ECB has confirmed.
ECB president Mario Draghi this afternoon confirmed that the banknotes would be given an overhaul, beginning with the €5 note, of which the new notes will begin circulation in May 2013. The new design will include Europa’s likeness in their watermarks and in the hologram that appears down the side of the notes


New €5 Euro Banknote from Second Series - YouTube


Notice in the middle the symbol for the EU, TWELVE STARS and with the hologram you have 'Europa' the woman on the beast of Zeus, both looking towards the twelve stars.



Here is the pic of the statue of 'Europa' riding the beast, Zeus I posted in the other thread in case you didn't see it.



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Notice how she is sitting, and how there is a 'Cherub' whispering in her ear and the bull seems to be riding over the sea (notice the dolphins which are found in the Mediterranean as well as many other waters around the world)


So what do you think this all means?


Daniel:


Revelation





Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.


Looks like Libertus.

It look JUST like that Mosaic they found in Israel not long ago.

It looks like Nimrod's mother.

I believe that she is the person with the oldest known face in history.


I like how you keep changing your avatar.,
 
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I've been hearing a lot of talk with Christians and so on that the Anti-Christ will come from Europe. I always believed the spirit of the Anti-Christ was already here...and I'm still pondering if a "Man figure" will actually be the Anti-Christ.


I'm still waiting for the 2 prophets to pop up in Israel sometime and start preaching. :p
I don't believe it's an actual man where many of the scriptures talk about a man.

Like thess man of sin, I don't see this an an individual but the man of sin within people.
 
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I've been hearing a lot of talk with Christians and so on that the Anti-Christ will come from Europe. I always believed the spirit of the Anti-Christ was already here...and I'm still pondering if a "Man figure" will actually be the Anti-Christ.


I'm still waiting for the 2 prophets to pop up in Israel sometime and start preaching. :p
Some say the Mark of the Beast is the media - in how it affects your mind (forehead) or what we do with our actions (the hand) and how much your attitude is what is in focus.
 
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Interesting. But I don't think that that really resembles revalation.

And nice pictures. TY

I see all those old Goddesses as the same person and they usually always show the same woman.

It's always libertus or the mother of Nimrod.

Statues of libertus can be found from the 9th century B.C. and it's always the same woman, looks JUST LIKE this woman.
 
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Gxg (G²);64199289 said:
Some say the Mark of the Beast is the media - in how it affects your mind (forehead) or what we do with our actions (the hand) and how much your attitude is what is in focus.

Exodus 13
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

Being marked on your forehead is the most ancient practice with God it seems.

You are given that mark by the Sabbaths and Holy days that you keep.

The people in Ezekiel received a mark on their forehead because they were mourning about Pagan Practices being done in the temple on Holy Pagan days.

They are all killed except the ones with the mark, and that mark is always associated with what Sabbath and traditions one keeps.

For Revelation to be talking of any different thing is not likely seeing that it goes back to the sign of the Exodus and practiced by Jews since the Exodus.
 
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Interesting. But I don't think that that really resembles revalation.

And nice pictures. TY


Hi :wave:

What do you think doesn't resemble what is in the book of the Revelation?

I was specifically speaking of the twelve stars, from Joseph's dream in the first book, Genesis, to the twelve stars in Revelation and why these twelve stars are floating about the new tower of babel and on the money and on their flag?
 
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Hi :wave:

What do you think doesn't resemble what is in the book of the Revelation?

I was specifically speaking of the twelve stars, from Joseph's dream in the first book, Genesis, to the twelve stars in Revelation and why these twelve stars are floating about the new tower of babel and on the money and on their flag?

An opinion...
Could it be astronomical symbolism? Constellations - with the dragon relating to a comet? Comets are historically symbolized as serpents and dragons because of their tails.

This is how I've always seen the description in Revelation.

I wonder if the verses in Genesis could be relating astronomical symbolism, as well...
 
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Look at this image here from a poster from

tower-painting-poster.jpg

There are only Eleven stars on this poster, yet the flag, the symbol, the money all have twelve stars on them. Under the slogan which flys in the face of G-ds confounding the languages and the chance for all mankind to rebel the slogan, Europe, 'Many Tongues (notice it doesn't say languages but speaks in the Biblical venacular?) One voice' and the twelve stars are represented there.

Why? and does it have something to do with the twelve stars in Joseph's dream as well as the crown of the woman Israel in Revelation, I think so.

Also notice the eleven stars surrounding the tower in the poster are upsidedown, they are pentagrams.

I understand this poster was banned due to too many protests against it.
 
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Look at this image here from a poster from

tower-painting-poster.jpg

There are only Eleven stars on this poster, yet the flag, the symbol, the money all have twelve stars on them. Under the slogan which flys in the face of G-ds confounding the languages and the chance for all mankind to rebel the slogan, Europe, 'Many Tongues (notice it doesn't say languages but speaks in the Biblical venacular?) One voice' and the twelve stars are represented there.

Why? and does it have something to do with the twelve stars in Joseph's dream as well as the crown of the woman Israel in Revelation, I think so.

Also notice the eleven stars surrounding the tower in the poster are upsidedown, they are pentagrams.

I understand this poster was banned due to too many protests against it.


Kind of looks like they had the 12 stars of Babylon in mind.
 
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Is it not odd that they used yellow stars? Yellow stars were imposed on Jews all throughout Europe less than 100 years ago. Twelve is a number associated with Jews as well, in the twelve tribes.

320px-European_flag_in_Karlskrona_2011.jpg

There were many flag designs submitted but this is the one that won out and coincidentally? enough it was designed by a Levite.

And about 10 years ago this same flag was flown in space at the International Space Station, does that qualify for twelve stars in the heavens?
 
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t?he second coming?
Yes ... I believe in both historic & futuristic fulfillment of many prophecies, not only for that of Messiah (e.g. His first & second coming), but also that of Anti-Messiah.

I believe that an Anti-Messiah already came in the first century, and will come again:
"that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world" (1Jn 4:3b)
 
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