Historical Footprints in the Sands of Time
Was there really a garden of Eden? Was there once a worldwide flood, and an oil tanker size oak-wood boat with all the world’s species on board? Was there really an Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph? Was there really a wandering tribe called Israel in exile in Egypt reduced to slaves by a greedy, power hungry Pharaoh? Was one of these Israelites by a “grand chess move” really elevated to “Pharaoh to be?”
Did this Moses personage actually rebel against power lust and flee into the great wilderness surrounding the small nucleus of Egyptian civilisation? Did he eventually actually return, to lead these slaves into a national movement of religious revival and non-cooperation, culminating in a massive exodus of 2-3 million of them? Did they actually go into the wilderness? which wasn’t totally desertified yet in those days! But regardless, how did these millions of refugees ever survive? And did they actually go the route of the beach of the Gulf of Aqaba finger of the Red Sea? Were they indeed pursued by by Pharaoh’s chariot army?
The 666 Dollar question is, “Did the sea actually open” with a strong Eastern wind revealing the underwater land bridge there as pathway where these Israelites walked across to the Saudi side? Did the chariots of Pharaoh pursue them into the sea bed? And , were they actually buried under the waves and sand?
How did the Israelites survive 80 years in the desert of Arabia? Did they really cross the Jordan river as by dry land? Did Joshua lead them into what they call “the promised land” until this very day? Did the walls of Jericho actually fall down outward and instantly into the desert sand as discovered, after they were surrounded 7 times by Israelite marches and fanfare?
Did Joshua really exist, and seven judges and fourteen prophets leading this peculiar nation, this Middle Eastern desert tribe called Israel? Did their national book report actual history? Or were these mere legends or myths dished up night after desert night to media-starved peasants and hunters, by opinionated imaginative story tellers greatly adding to the accumulative record, until they became bloated monstrosities of what may have had a tiny core of historicity? Like the Iliads and Odyssey?
Does this Bible report factual history or is it a myth carried around by a recalcitrant mountain tribe that antagonised their neighbours, even when their religious authorities and priesthood virtually rejected and dismissed this old testament of their desert god to them, after they had been exiled for 70 years to Babylon for their sins, where they picked up the local religion and sorcery and created a new set of myths and religious banter of Talmudic proportions. Were they indeed recruited there by Earth’s rebel angels against God to formulate a plan of world conquest after they so thoroughly despised and discarded their God and His original religious authority and even persecuted and killed his prophets?
Did these prophets like Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah and Jeremy, who warned these rebel Babylonian Pharisees of their future fate, dispersion and doom, really exist? Or were they also figments of the imaginations of fanatic frantic religious zealots and idiots of this mountain tribe? These Messianic predictions in their original history book of laws and prophets, the Torah, were they really true? Were they really predated that long before these predictions suddenly began to materialise before this mountain tribe’s eyes in the form of a personage that shook that nation’s ruler already as infant!
Was the local Arab King Herod really so mesmerised by the reports of three wise stargazers from far away eastern kingdoms who disquieted him with astrological reports and projections that a baby king was to be born into his kingdom but not into his family? Did he really massacre hundreds of infants of up to two years old in Bethlehem?
Did he himself observe the star these wise men pointed out and followed? Did he get possessed by the dark side to eliminate an entire generation of one town’s babies? Or was his premeditated murder of innocents in Bethlehem a myth as well? Was there a Bethlehem at all? Or was this town just an embodiment and result of mythical legends?
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