The Tree (Two Sticks) in Ezekiel's Hand (Chapter 37)

More words from the Hebrew letters.

Meanwhile, over at the Perpetual Virginity thread...

(Suppose everybody needs a hobby.)

This is the book and chapter that the LDS & (used to be RLDS) now Community of Christ like to quote to convince people that the two sticks meant the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

Ping.

This is the book and chapter that the LDS & (used to be RLDS) now Community of Christ like to quote to convince people that the two sticks meant the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

Well if they aren't interested in doing their own homework...

For your interest.

And we are in the generation that will see this happen!

Revelation Chapter 12:
1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.
2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1193). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Previous Bible commentators have taken this as a symbolic vision about Israel (Mary) giving birth to Jesus, and marking the start of the 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation.
However, since “knowledge had increased”, we can use star charting programs such as Stellarium to see that this could be a literal “great sign” in heaven.

The constellation “Virgo”, the Virgin, has always been identified with Mary the Mother of Jesus. The nine stars of Leo, the Lion (of Judah), form a “garland” above her head.
Jupiter has always been identified as the “King” star. It is striped (by His stripes we are healed) and has a large, red spot (they pierced His side).

Here is the sequence of events regarding the Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Virgo, Leo, Mercury, Mars and Venus

Mon, 21 November 2016 = 20th of Cheshvan, 5777
Jupiter enters Virgo (the Virgin’s Womb) crossing line from Spica to Porrima

Sat, 28 January 2017 = 1st of Sh’vat, 5777
Jupiter retrograde motion begins inside Virgo.

Sat, 10 June 2017 = 16th of Sivan, 5777
Jupiter prograde motion resumes inside Virgo

Thu, 17 August 2017 = 25th of Av, 5777
Total Solar eclipse across America (Charleston to Portland)

Sun, 10 September 2017 = 19th of Elul, 5777
Jupiter crosses Heze — Spica line. Virgin gives birth? Conjunction Regulus and Mercury

Wed, 20 September 2017 = 29th of Elul, 5777
New Moon, Venus — Regulus conjunction

Sun, 24 September 2017 = 4th of Tishrei, 5778
Sun at Virgo’s shoulders (clothed), the Moon is at her feet, Mercury, Mars, Venus are added to Leo’s nine stars as Virgo’s 12-star ‘garland’

The great sign in the heaven is complete. This formation has not happened in the past 6000 years and won’t happen again for at least another 2000 years.

Luke 21
25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;
26 “men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27 “Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1023). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

See the image at: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_1y_hLqVXf4/maxresdefault.jpg

Graphic says 23 September 2017, as it depends on where you say Virgo’s feet are. Besides, no one knows the day or the hour.

Luke 21 25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars...

Gen 37

9. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brothers, and said, Behold, I have again dreamed a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me:
10. And he told it to his father, and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth:
11. And his brothers envied him; but his father kept the matter in mind:

BTW, did that tree graphic display for you?

Yes. Graphic was great.

Yep, it is. It also shows that they don’t read the chapter.

Thanks. I meant to add that because the tzaddi breaks down to yud + nun sofit, etz (tree, stick) also "spells" ayin (eye):

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5869&t=KJV

That would be another reference to the reunification of the family (Jacob and Joseph, via Judah).

Meaning, when Jacob came down to Egypt there were 70 souls. In this same narrative, Pharaoh asks Jacob his age... 130.

70 = the letter ayin, and 130 = the word ayin (the letter's name which is also the word for "eye")

Gen 46

26. All the souls who came with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty six:
27. And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy:
28. And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen; and they came to the land of Goshen:
29. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself to him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while:

Gen 47

7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh:
8. And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you:
9. And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage:
10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh:

In the context of the family reunifying and settling in Goshen, and the Messiah being the root of the tree, it is interesting that "to Goshen" (toward Goshen, Goshnah) = 358 = Mashiach.

"It also shows that they don’t read the chapter."

That is correct. They pick and choose verses to fit their beliefs. They never study to get to know anything in historical context.

My ancestry comes from the very beginning of Mormonism. My Great, Great grandparents were some of the first Mormons under J.S. and made the trek from Nauvoo to Utah with Brigham.

My parents never attended but found the RLDS church. Then I met my husband who was RLDS. Most of the time the people in that church were trying to convince people it was not the LDS and RLDS was the true Joseph Smith Mormon church. Because my husband was a member thru (his ancestry) and part of the priesthood, I just went along with it. As the RLDS fell apart my husband started realizing it was a false religion. I am just saddened that so many of our years was spent in that.

I am just saddened that so many of our years was spent in that.

Years on earth are like a moment in the mind of God. Thank God you are where you are now because that is what matters.

During the Twentieth Century Anno Domini (AD) mathematicians proved that there are ordinary truths within relatively simple logical and numerical systems that cannot be proven within those systems. Physicists observed that there were fundamental limits to the precision of simultaneously measuring related physical quantities. The inescapable conclusion is that it is impossible for us to discover a Universal Theory of Everything (UToE) by observing and reasoning about the observed universe.

The only way that we, as human beings, can understand the universe, let alone our place in it, is to have the Creator of the Universe (CotU) tell us what we need to know. The premise of this document is that the CotU has given us what we need to know about His creation in the form of the Holy Scriptures of the Hebrews and the Christians. The fundamental plan is laid out in the Tanach (also known as (aka) the Old Testament), but this document contains some “mysteries”. The “mysteries” within the Tanach are revealed in the “Renewed Covenant” (aka New Testament) writings that make up the second part of the Christian Bible. The Renewed Covenant itself contains some things that are specifically not revealed, perhaps to remind us that we are incapable of knowing and understanding all things.

In a more mathematical sense, the Holy Scriptures are a projection (aka mapping) into our world of the CotU’s plan for the evolution of His creation from the beginning to the end. What is called “Bible Prophecy” does not come true because the CotU knows what is going to happen. “Bible Prophecy” comes true because it is a mapping from the actual plan (aka The Word) that makes things happen in the universe that we experience.

Even if all experimental activities and analysis are done honestly, there are limits to what can be observed and what can be computed. Kurt Gödel has proven that there are an unlimited number of true statements that are part of a formal system based on a particular set of axioms that can’t be deduced by the closed formal reasoning defined in that formal system. Alan Turing has shown that it is not possible to write a single algorithm that can determine if any algorithm will stop for any given input. Numerous experimenters in the field of Quantum Mechanics have shown that it is not possible to simultaneously measure the position and velocity of elemental particles.

All of these limitations are related and they all support the idea that we can’t create the UToE for the real world from observations inside the real world without so kind of revelation from the outside creator of the real world.

One of the first things one learns about all known physical theories, such as, equations of motion, or electromagnetic field equations, is that they are differential equations. This means that the equations specifies the rate of change of dependent quantities in response to the values of other independent quantities in the equation. In order to predict the evolution of the system one has to specify the initial or boundary conditions of the independent quantities. Only then can the future state or probable of the system be calculated.

In the search for the UToE one can get a somewhat decent handle of current conditions in a small area of study, unless one looks too closely, but things rapidly get very complex. It is possible to write down equations of motion for three bodies in a Newtonian Gravitational Field. If the initial positions and velocities, i.e., the boundary conditions, are known, then one can use the differential equations of motion to calculate future positions, but it is impossible to write down explicit equations for the orbits of the objects. We also know that Newton’s model for gravity is not as accurate as Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which itself has limitations at very small scales.

And these are just little boundary conditions. The big boundary conditions are “Why are we here?”, “How did this all begin?” and “How will this all end?” Absent some revealed truth, these big questions are unanswerable.

For the purposes of this scientific search for the UToE our overarching hypothesis is that the Creator of the Universe (CotU) has provided keys to the UToE, including the big boundary conditions, in the form of the Holy Scriptures, specifically the Tanach (Hebrew Bible), and the Renewed Covenant (Christian New Testament.) We will use related writings such as the Hebrew Traditions (Kabbalah), but only to the extent that they confirm the Holy Scriptures by providing additional commentary.

Our hypothesis does not say that CotU made the UToE easy to find, but that we are to strive to understand His creation to the extent we can and the Holy Scriptures will confirm the correct theories that we can deduce from observations.
For the parts that cannot be deduced from observation, we hypothesize that the stories, prophesies, patterns, and codes recorded in the Holy Scriptures represent a mapping from the actual boundary conditions of the Universe into our observed four-dimensional world. In other words, Bible Prophesy comes true because the Universe can evolve in no other way. In these cases our hypothesis will be proven true if the world in fact evolved as the Holy Scriptures foretold.

In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. (Gen 1:1) In the beginning the Word had been existing and That Word had been existing with G-d and G-d himself was That Word. (John 1:1)

There are two creation stories in Genesis for a reason. The first describes the creation of the universe out of nothing from the beginning. The second describes the creation of Adam and Eve who start CotU’s salvation plan for the creatures that He created. So we can have an “old” universe and a “young” salvation plan at the same time. We will first focus on the creation of the universe out of nothing from the beginning over what we would measure as a long time.

This concept is supported by the Scriptures, and is also supported by the writings of the Hebrew sages:

“According to the master Kabbalists, Rabbi Isaac of Acco, when counting the years of these [7000 year] cycles, one must not use an ordinary physical year, but rather, a divine year. The Midrash says that each divine day is a thousand years, basing this on the verse, “A thousand years in Your sight are as but yesterday” (Psalms 90: 4). Since each year contains 365 1/4 days, a divine year would be 365,250 years long. According to this, each cycle of seven thousand divine years would consist of 2,556,750,000 earthly years. This figure of two-and-a-half billion years is very close to the scientific estimate as to the length of time that life has existed on earth. If we assume that the seventh cycle began with the Biblical account of creation, then this would have occurred when the universe was 15,340,500,000 years old. This is very close to the scientific estimate that the expansion of the universe began some fifteen billion years ago.”

Kaplan, Aryeh (2004-03-15). Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice (Kindle Locations 3552-3559). Red Wheel Weiser. Kindle Edition.

‘During the six days of creation described in the first chapter, G-d did not actually create the world, but rather, created the ingredients which would allow the world to develop. It thus refers to the creation of all matter, along with space and time. It was during these six days that G-d brought the universe into being from absolute nothingness. After these six days of creation, G-d allowed the universe to develop by itself, renewing His creation each seven thousand divine years or 2.5 billion earthly years. All the laws of nature and the properties of matter had been fixed for all time, as it is written, “He has established them forever; He has made a decree which shall not be transgressed” (Psalms 148: 6). It is similarly written, “Whatever G-d decrees shall be forever; nothing shall be added to it, and nothing shall be taken away” (Ecclesiastes 3: 14). ‘

Kaplan, Aryeh (2004-03-15). Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice (Kindle Locations 3564-3572). Red Wheel Weiser. Kindle Edition.

Rabbi Acco made this calculation, based on the Torah, sometime between 1250 AD and 1340 AD more than 300 years before Sir Isaac Newton was born, and at least 600 years before Edwin Hubble proposed his theory of the expanding universe. The reason aligning the start of the seventh cycle of divine years with the second creation story is based on the rabbinical analysis described in Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice. Suffice it to say, but the rabbis could not have been adjusting their analysis to conform the yet to be determined modern scientific value!

So this is our first measurement. More than 600 years ago, the Holy Scriptures, as analyzed by people who really cared about finding the truth in them, reveal the age of the universe we can observe today.

In the twentieth century AD, it became obvious that energy and energy states were quantized and could be emitted or absorbed only in discrete units. However, the theories and equations that were developed regarded space and time as continuous and thus infinitely divisible. As a result of not having a minimum space-time unit all of these theories postulate infinities within the physical universe that have not been observed.

The current “Standard Model” for Quantum Mechanics compensates for this through a process called “renormalization” in which one subtracts a big infinity from a smaller infinity to get a measured answer. The “Big Bang Theory” says the universe started as a singularity, then the laws of physics were suspended for a while as everything expanded at faster than the speed of light. “Here the magic happens” is clearly only a “scientific” theory because it is proposed by “scientists.”

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Daniel 12:4)

Since we are near the time of the end, knowledge has increased! The Unified Field Theory proposed by Burkhard Heim (1925-2001) is a completely discrete theory that is based on the quantization of areas in multiple dimensions. It treats the universe as an accounting system, which is clearly in consonance with the Holy Scriptures, as we shall see. Originally proposed with six dimensions; it was later expanded into 12 dimensions to fully account for Quantum Mechanics. Heim calculated the mass values of the elemental particles using the 6-dimensional formulation and six experimentally measured fundamental constants, such as the speed of light in a vacuum, and arrived at values that were in good (!) agreement with observations.

Burkhard Heim arrived at a description of “the beginning” from the currently observed universe using logic and mathematics. He described the process he used in a presentation to the scientists at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) in Ottoburnn, Germany on November 25, 1976. An annotated transcript of the presentation and an English translation was produced by Olar Posdzech, Jim Graham, John Reed and Wilfried Kugel between 2000 and 2009. In this presentation, Heim derived the fundamental quantum of area which he called a “metron”.

In 1992, Tamar Auerbach explained the cosmology of Heim’s Theory as follows:

“In Heim’s theory both the metronic size, t, and the largest diameter D depend on the age of the universe. The dependence is such that D is expanding and t is contracting, so that D was smaller in the past and t was larger. It stands to reason that at one time in the distant past the surface area of a sphere of diameter D in our 3-dimensional world was equal to the size of t. This instant marks the origin of the universe and of time.
The mathematical relation between D and t is not simple, so that 3 different values of D are found to satisfy the criterion that the area of a sphere of diameter D be equal to t at the beginning of time. Evidently, the universe started as a trinity of spheres, whose diameters turn out to be (in meters):

D1 = 0.90992 m, D2 = 1.06426 m, D3 = 3.70121 m.

This trinity of spheres has important bearings on the structure of elementary particles.

From the first moment the universe began to expand, though at a slower rate than is presently predicted on the basis of the red shift of distant galaxies. Heim’s theory results in a present age of the universe approximately equal to 5.45 x 10^107 years, and a diameter D of about 6.37 x 10^109 light years. During most of its existence the universe consisted of an empty metronic lattice, whose metrons kept getting smaller as the universe grew larger. Eventually, metrons became small enough for matter to come into existence. This may have occurred some 15-40 billion (10^9) years ago, at which time matter was created throughout the volume of the universe. Hence, according to Heim matter did not originate very soon after a “big bang” explosion but more uniformly in scattered “fire-cracker” like bursts, perhaps of galactic proportions. Spontaneous uniform creation of matter, coupled with the partly attractive and partly repulsive force of gravity mentioned in Section 3 resulted in the observed large-scale galactic structure of the universe. Creation of matter continues to this day, though on a very much reduced scale.”

Heim’s Theory of Elementary Particle Structures, T. Auerbach and Illobrand von Ludwiger published by the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 217-231, 1992

Heim’s Theory then starts in an analogous way to the way the Hebrew Sages explain it:

And He created His universe with three books (Sepharim), with text (Sepher) with number (Sephar) and with communication (Sippur).

Kaplan, Aryeh (2004-03-15). Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice (Kindle Locations 445-449). Red Wheel Weiser. Kindle Edition.

Now the Sefer Yetzirah is said to be part of the oral Torah, but we don’t know for sure, so it should be treated as commentary. So we must look for a pattern in the Torah that matches Heim’s Theory in order to consider Heim’s theory a match for the first creation story. The amazing thing is that the Torah’s description of the creation of the Nation of Israel fits the pattern of these three spheres (books) and the organization of the dimensions used in Extended Heim Theory.

If we simply number the 12 sons of Jacob in the order they were born, we get the following:

x1 Gen 29:32 So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “The LORD has surely seen my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.”

x2 Gen 29:33 Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.

x3 Gen 29:34 She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

x4 Gen 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

x5 Gen 30:6 Then Rachel said, “G-d has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

x6 Gen 30:8 Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called him Naphtali.

x7 Gen 30:11 Then Leah said, “A troop comes!” So she called his name Gad.

x8 Gen 30:13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed.” So she called his name Asher.

x9 Gen 30:18 Leah said, “G-d has given me my hire [wages] because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

x10 Gen 30:20b Leah said, “...now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.

x11 Gen 30:24 So she [Rebecca] called his name Joseph, and said, “The LORD shall add to me another son.”

x12 Gen 35:18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she [Rebecca] called his name Ben-Oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Ben-Jamin.

There probably is some significance to the names themselves, but at this point I have only looked at the birth order and grouping related to the dimensions used in Extended Heim Theory, as shown in Table 1

Table 1 Birth Order of the Tribes as Dimension Groups
Leah - - - Dimension Index - - - - - Dimension Group
- - Reuben - - - x1 - - - - - - R3 (x,y,z) Spatial
- - Simeon - - - x2
- - Levi - - - - x3
- - Judah - - — x4 - - - - - - T1 (i) Time
Bihah (Rachel’s maid)
- - Dan - - - — x5 - - - - - - S2 (x5,x6) Structure
- - Naphtali - - x6
Zilpah (Leah’s maid)
- - Gad - - - — x7 - - - - - - I2 (x7,x8) Information
- - Asher - - — x8
Leah - - - - - - - - - - - — - G4 (x9,x10,x11,x12) Event Steering
- - Issachar - - x9
- - Zebulun - - x10
Rachel
- - Joseph - - -x11
- - Benjamin - -x12

Once I recognized this pattern, it was apparent that the Three Spheres (Books) were symbolized by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

What are the chances of this happening if the Holy Scriptures are not the Word of CotU?

Bump for future reference, thanks for posting.

Note to self.

עין + צדי = 130 + 104

26 (4) + 26 (5) = 234

117 (2) = [(50 + 7) + (10 + 50)] 2 = נזין (2)

פקדים = 234

עין + צדי = (2) נזין

Gen 50.24-25

And Joseph said to his brothers, I die; and God will surely visit (פקד יפקד) you, and bring you out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob: And Joseph took an oath from the people of Israel, saying, God will surely visit (פקד יפקד) you , and you shall carry up my bones from here:

(פקד יפקד) + (פקד יפקד) = 378 (2) = 28 (27) = (2) דוד (חידה)

T₂₇ = 378

26 = יהוה

Eze 37

3. And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, you know:

4. And he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord:

5. Thus says the Lord God to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: