Is This ‘Miraculous’ Glowing Halo the Place Where Moses Saw God?
- Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:42pm by
Sharona Schwartz
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Historians, theologians and the faithful have for centuries wanted to know: Where is the holy mountain where Moses met God?
Theories have ranged from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula of modern-day Saudi Arabia. Israeli researchers who stumbled upon a surprising glowing halo are asking, along with an Italian archaeologist who first floated the theory: could the burning bush have actually been in Israel’s Negev desert, just north of the Sinai?
Channel 2 reports (translated from Hebrew):
“On the border with Egypt, in an isolated firing range in the Negev, one of the mountains vying for the title can be found – Mount Karkum. Researchers recently discovered that once a year, at a unique time, something very strange occurs. An unusual natural phenomenon or perhaps a massive scientific discovery? Watch and try to believe.”
On Saturday, a news crew from Israel’s Channel 2 went along with one of the researchers on a trek to the remote site of Mount Karkum, or Turmeric Mountain. (Yes, in the Holy Land, biblical archaeology often makes the cut of hot news items).
A brief biblical recap:
In the beginning of Exodus Chapter 3, Moses tends his father-in-law Jethro’s flock. When he arrives at Mount Horeb, an angel of God appears to him in a bush that continually burns but is not consumed. God tells Moses not to get closer and to take off his shoes, because he is standing on holy ground.
Mount Horeb is considered by most biblical scholars to be interchangeable with Mount Sinai, and with “the Mountain of God.” It is also where Moses prepares to receive the Ten Commandments in Exodus 19.
Dr. Haim Berger, a zooanthropologist at Sde Boker College and a jeep tour guide says Mount Karkum holds some 40,000 stone drawings thousands of years old. Channel 2 reports that the geographical location and finding of artifacts led the Italian archaeologist Emanuel Anati to come to a conclusion that “if verified it will shake the scientific and maybe even religious world: Mount Karkum, is essentially Mount Sinai.”
Berger believes this etching found on the site depicts the two tablets of the covenant on which the Ten Commandments were written which “established the destiny of the Jewish nation.”
Israel's Channel 2 News
Berger believes this etching is a map showing the three ridges of the mountain. On the right of the middle V, he says a marking denotes the burning bush:
Israel's Channel 2 News
But what’s gotten people talking is an unusual vision seen only once a year during the month of December. Yigal Granot, an ecologist at Sde Boker College, says he first visited the site in 2003:
“We arrived here. I simply turned my head and suddenly I see a round gate surrounded by a golden halo that shouldn’t be there. There’s nothing there. As it appears, a person can’t get over there. It’s a protruding wall overlooking an abyss…I didn’t understand what I was seeing.”
Cave with Halo (from Israel's Channel 2 News)
His driver at the time photographed the site in black and white. Granot explains that in addition to the golden halo one can see rays coming out of the cave:
From Israel's Channel 2 News
One tourist tells Channel 2, “I suddenly saw it sort of light up like a flashlight from inside the mountain. I didn’t understand what it was.”
The Blaze spoke to biblical scholars who caution against jumping to conclusions. Jonathan Ben-Dov, Professor of Bible Studies at Haifa University, tells The Blaze that like many biblical geography efforts, the quest for Mount Sinai has been controversial:
“There are many theories in historical geography. One person says it’s in Saudi Arabia. There are many other theories, too. I wouldn’t say Karkum is the most convincing one of them all. But it’s entirely and absolutely a fascinating place because of the special concentration of rock carvings. You don’t find these things very often.”
Whether the carvings depict the burning bush or the tablets of the covenant, he says, requires “some creative imagination.”
Ben-Dov suggests those trying to pinpoint the location of Mount Sinai need to map out the entire itinerary of Moses’ journey and then figure out how Mount Sinai fit into that journey.
Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, a biblical geographer who did his PhD on the geography of the Exodus tells The Blaze that Mount Karkum “probably was a holy site, but we have plenty of sites with inscriptions all over the area.”
In order to understand the lay of the land, you have to examine the biblical data, which in three cases, he says, disprove Karkum as being the location where Moses met God.
First, in Exodus 4:27, the mountain of God where Moses saw the burning bush is also where he met his brother Aaron. It is described as lying between Egypt and Midian. Dr. HaCohen says Karkum is not along that route.
Second, the location is mentioned in Numbers 10:29 when Moses and his father-in-law Jethro (now named Reuel) part ways, Moses heading toward Kadesh-barnea and Jethro back to Midian. There is only one mountain at the junction between the two places, and HaCohen suggests Mount Karkum is not a candidate.
Thirdly, Deuteronomy 1:2 describes Mount Horeb as an 11-day journey from Kadesh-barnea. Dr. HaCohen explains that moving sheep and goats would allow for 7-10 miles per day. Mount Karkum is a lot closer to Kadesh-barnea than an 11-day trek, he says.
Despite the skepticism, the ecologist Granot is convinced of the spiritual presence at Karkum:
“There are miracles on this mountain. I was here with a religious group and it was a cloudy day with no sun and I’m driving and asking myself ‘What am I doing? People came to see the cave and there’s nothing.’ We arrived here. They sat down when suddenly there’s a hole in the clouds … at noon. A hole in the clouds and they saw how it [the cave] ‘turned on’ and when we turned to leave the hole closed up.”
Watch the video from Israel Channel 2 News. It’s in Hebrew, but at 8:55 you can see the halo around the cave’s entrance. Optical illusion or a miraculous discovery?
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Comments (194)
COFemale
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:09pmThis is just a tourist site. If this was really an amazing discovery, archaeologist would be all over this. What would be fascinating about this story is what is in the cave (if anything),. I mean do you not think someone would have made the effort to explore the cave and if they found anything, it would have been reported? Also, the camera’s should be able to zoom in really close-in on the cave to get a closer look, yet all the camera’s seem only to get close enough to see the “glow”.
There is yellow and sometimes reddish limestone all over the southwest U.S. that will appear to glow yellowish when the sun is just right.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:01pmWho knows what is going on here? I don’t but, to draw conclusions, pro or con, is not the right thing to do. The right thing to do is study it and then, with data, make the conclusion. Anyway, it is very interesting. If you believe, that’s ok. If you don‘t that’s ok too.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:52pmTo all my fellow Blazers… I don’t need any proof…I believe..I have faith…and for you all..I just want to say Merry Christmas…oh I know..so of you don‘t believe in Christmas and say that God didn’t tell us to celebrate it and that he hates it.. I have been through that before..but after walking out into the light of a snow covered Christmas Eve and seeing sparkling snow crystals on the trees..in the calm of those beautiflu starry nights..I feel His presence..and I know that He is there..the wise men brought gifts..he was born amongs the animals in a stable..and although we don’t know the exact day of His into mankind birth..I believe TRUTHFORALL said that the star matches Christmas..so I just want to say Happy Birthday Jesus and to all my friends here on the Blaze…Merrry Christmas…here’s my favorite song this Christmas..Love to you all.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0
jimnasium
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:07pmOK if you want to add to the picture look at the right side of the picture and tell me if you see what appears to be the outline of a man in a robe?
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:13pmI did not understand a word except for “Indian Jones” But I notice that the commercial seemed very family oriented with a positive attitude unlike the bloodthirsty arab media. I thought that very telling.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:32pmLike ur opinion.
Report Post »Suchy
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:02pmLooks like a mineral outcrop. Maybe thats why the mine is there.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:50pmIt does not matter to me if it’s true or not.
Either way it will not shake my belief in God…
Although for Christians I am sure it is paramount…
Too many people , here included, want to jump up and down on someone’s head if they do not believe the same way…..We can all be good human beings and not believe the same as others do…\\
So…is our life….set in stone…destiny, predestination.. ?or free will?….destiny…prophecy, same thing…
Report Post »can’t have it both ways..“both ways” meaning predestination (destiny, prophecy) with a little free will thrown in when it’s convenient…..
Chappy123
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:47pm@ jimnasium
I see it.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:17pmI thought that Moses saw God in a piece of toast.
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:41pmBlessed are those who have not seen but believe.
Report Post »davecotzin
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 8:27pmJimnisum, Is right! if you look closely at the right side of the colored picture, I can clearly see a rock formation which very much resembles an man dressed as I would picture it from moses time, Pointing to the opening of the cave. Optical Illusion I doubt it. Possibly man made or Alein made.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:48pm@jimnasium
Report Post »Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:07pm
OK if you want to add to the picture look at the right side of the picture and tell me if you see what appears to be the outline of a man in a robe?
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Not only did I see it, BUT, take a second look when they back away from the rocks with the cave, then see if you don’t see beside the man in the robe, the ridge, (or whatever you want to call it) forms a man’s head, with the cave as the eye. ARE WE PERHAPS LOOKING AT THE EYE OF GOD IN THAT ROCK FORMATION? (The TBI just kicked in, can’t think of the word for the face in sideways profile, and I was an art major in HS, couldn’t afford art school due to illness, but should know that word.) Still the sight is awesome! Glad someone else noticed at least one of the men. DID GOD DO ROCK CARVINGS CENTURIES BEFORE WE PAID MEN TO DO SO ON A WESTERN AMERICAN MOUNTAIN ?
Amos37
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:54pmYeah, you’re right. We should just accept anyone, forget God’s Word! Come on in unrighteousness, let’s reproduce! We don’t need to read the Bible, we can just look to the tree for healing! Merry Christmas everyone.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:32amYeah that’s it: Moses met with God in a real mountain, because God can only come down as low as a real mountain’s higher elevations. Yeah, and when Moses saw the burning Bush, it wasn’t that he saw the “Liveliness” of the Hebrews away far off “In a ”spiritual sense” (a burning Bush), but that God actually talked to Moses through a shrub on fire.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:37amAnd when God told Moses that his brother Aaron would be his “Prophet in the room”, God apparently also meant that Moses would be “In the room” also, and God just made that acknowledgment or specific detail for no reason at all.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:47amToo bad how sad, you people have learned nothing from Jesus Christ. You still worship the mountains like Pagans because you are pagans.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:49amThe Palestinians will beat the Nation of Israel because Israel is unto the Philistines, and therefore closely similar to the Palestinians.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:53amHow about that? You people think God is so weak and pathetic, that God has to talk to someone through a Burning Bush i.e Burning shrub.
Report Post »offwego
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:51am@ ASHESTOASHES
Report Post »Just watched “the Star of Bethlehem” the other day. It uses modern data to map the skies of any given day. I REALLY recomend it — bethlehemstar.net is thier website! God is Awesome! Merry Chirstmas!
V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:00amNow comes wisdom.
What does an oily pile of rags do if left unattended? It can ignite and start a fire, especially fast in direct sunlight.
Mature cannabis has an exceptional amount of essential oil content. If a fully ripe cannabis plant was growing on that mountain, the oils on the surface of the plant could be ignited by the sun, especially dead, dry leaves still attached to the plant. The oils and dead leaves would be burned without consuming the rest of the plant due to water content. Additionally, the oil vaporized by the sun could be ignited by an electrical spark, a phenomenon of mountainous regions where static builds up and dielectric breakdown occurs. Approaching a burning cannabis plant would get Moses high.
The menorah is a symbol of the burning cannabis plant. “Kaneh Bosm” or “Qaneh Bosm” is an ingredient in the Holy Annointing Oil which Jesus Christ was annointed with. Kaneh Bosm is Cannabis- the mature BOSOM (nurturing sex organ) of the cannabis plant.
The Burning Bush is the Cannabis plant. The cannabis plant is an entheogen. YHWH appeared to Moses out of the midst of the burning Cannabis plant. Cannabis was offered to YHWH as a sacrifice. The image carved on that stone of the Burning Bush is an image of the Menorah (marijuana plant).
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:32am@OFFWEGO Thank You!!..I will definitely be watching that..May God Bless You my friend..
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:09amFaith is trust or commitment to what you think is true. Only in a World where Faith is difficult can Faith exist.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:44am@ASHESTOASHES… Simply Beautiful..it brought a tear.. so back at you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhcZ6b2FSsk&feature=related
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:26pmThe burning bush that God talked to Moses through was the the bush that Moses rolled up and smoked before hallucinating that he saw something.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:48pmA ripe Marijuana budding top would make a good natural torch.
The oil is also a very good fuel oil that burns for a LONG time (with high octane). I could see the oil from the story of Hannukah being extracted from Qaneh Bosm (Cannabis).
The Holy Annointing Oil calls for almost 9 lbs of fresh dried Kaneh Bosm tops to be soaked in olive oil to create a tincture.
Rick Simpson has been going around the country curing people with skin cancer and other cancers with cannabis oil extracted into vegetable glycerine to make a tincture. The THC causes cancer to enter programmed cell death.
Report Post »SaraD
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 10:04amPeople are so ready to believe this is supernatural nonsense. People used to believe rainbows were send by God, the story varied by culture but now we know the truth. They used to think sezures were send from God for hundreds of years, now we know why and there is a pill to treat it. It is much more likely this is a natural occurance, especially since supernatural stuff are things people want to believe and have never been found in nature.
Report Post »humba-labumbala-seebala-bumbala
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:01pmWow!! Now, I have to go back to see this.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:46pmOkay simple answer in this case — golden sunlight surrounding a cave is not a true bush on fire that is not burning nor consumed. Extreme differences, this is once again scientists of man trying to make something into truth where there is none.
Report Post »essay
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:57pmWho knows if it’s true or not, Leopard? But what if YOU’RE wrong about your basic beliefs?
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:20pmessay
And what if you are…?
Report Post »Run Silent
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:56pm1 will get you 10… Any bets we’re all wrong? Just saying.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:32pmThe cave opening appears to be in the shade.
Report Post »Eddie Reynolds
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:31amsnow….I’ve seen you raining on parades on other pages. Let me just say one thing to you….blowing out somebody else‘s candle doesn’t make your‘s burn any brighter and why is it that some folks find fault like there’s a reward for it ?
Report Post »mficentral
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:41pmI have a question for all of you who comment on this page and others. A few months ago, a mother ask people to pray for her son Steven who has cancer. Does anyone remember her and has she said anything about her son? Sorry about this intrusion and thank you for your patience.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:37amI don‘t remember seeing the prayer request and haven’t seen a return post! Sorry!
Report Post »SaraD
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 10:07amHopefully they did something about it. Hopefully they sought medical treatment, and got real help.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:41pmI wish it was a better quality video, to get a closer look but it is interesting
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:55pmAll someone needs to do is hike over there and examine the “cave” and determine what the situation is. No need for a mystery here.
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:03pmummm…it’s rock. i have a glowing halo in my backyard too.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:12pmTrue and maybe they will but remember the Middle East is not an area where people can go where ever they want without be shot at. You do realize Babylonians destroyed the first Jewish temple in 586 BCE and the Second Temple was destroyed by Rome in 70 CE In this I say there is a history of destroying Judeo structures. Hell they get missiles daily just for living their homeland.
Report Post »code green
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:16pmIf you look close you can see seven blocks of an arch that make up the opening of the cave. Couldn’t tell if the “glow” is devine or just seven light colored blocks forming an arch at the opening..
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:19pmcoindexter
But is it natural or do you light it? Or ist it an Alien landing sit ?
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:24pmcode green
Thats pretty much what I see when I blew it up but it does have a shine to stones, I can’t say if it was the effect of blewing it up…? I would like a closer shot
Report Post »karinbsol
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:40pmGuys, I’m not trying to be a troll or anything but this is not what these people are claiming it is… it obvious that it’s a simple hole in a thin part of the canyon wall that is sticking out. It is pretty apparent in the black and white photo, they even describe the site as a “protruding wall overlooking an abyss”. If you can’t see it in that picture go to the 8:33 mark on the video, as it zooms in you can clearly see that this is a thin finger of rock that is sticking out and appearance of the halo is the sun hitting the opposite side of the arch illuminating the inner ring. That is also why it would appear to have “rays coming out of the cave”.
I would love for this story to be true but it’s not and what is upseting is that that people who filmed this HAVE to know what it is and they still put this out.
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:37pmI saw the same as you. It is a hole in the wall face, behind the wall is most likely a rock that is close to the hole making it dark and look cave like. The rock behind it however is not larger than the hole so the sunlight behind it is reflecting on the outter rim from behind.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:37pmWhy are so many ready to scoff at this? There are many mysteries on this old planet. Human knowledge is pretty thin about most of what has happened in history and so much of history has been distorted.
I believe in miricles. I believe that God has kept many things hidden from us but maybe now is the time for some mysteries to be revealed.
Report Post »I believe in God, I believe in Jesus Christ and I believe in miracles.
WhiteFang
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:23pmFaith Is This ‘Miraculous’ Glowing Halo the Place Where Moses Saw God?
No.
The Holy Scriptures are very accurate as to giving details such as places, dates, people. Moses was not confused when he mentioned places such as Mt. Horeb, or Mt. Sinai. Now because of time and events happening in the area, the names of these places may not be the same as in Moses’ day. Another thing to consider is God does not want us to know where these places are, to prevent us from worshiping the site or Moses rather than God Himself. Remember, when Moses died, it was not know where is body or grave was for this very reason.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:48pmReally people don’t get the facts straight on the founding fathers which was a mere 235 years ago and you want people to be exact about 3000 years ago. Considering who many times they tried to destroy the Jewish people and land marks.
I‘d bet you don’t remember where you had lunch a year ago yesterday…?
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:13pmMiami, Actually it was at home and only because I was unemployed then and unemployed now. Does this constitute cheating?
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:29pmOkay do you remember what it was you ate…?
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:19pmGod does not make mistakes, the Holy Spirit which is one part of the Blessed Trinity gave all the Words written in the Holy Bible both in the Old Testament and the New to the Prophets and the Apostles!
John 12
44Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
45And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Report Post »PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:09pmI believe your right on the spot Whitefang. Gods Word is always clear!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:23pmlol! Anytime the Blaze posts an article that mentions God, and the trolls go into a squealing frenzy! It’s quite pathetically predictable.
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:18pmTruly, this must be Hole-ie ground.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 10:03pmYour spelling is Atrocious, BUT, I’m glad your attempting to quote scripture. ARE YOU STILL WEARING THOSE EXPENSIVE SHOES? (Exodus 3:5)
Report Post »Tony Cat
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:13pmI’m a believer, but this was not miraculous, its simply different colored stone arouns the enrance of the cave. It doesn’t even totally encompass it – its more of an upsidedown U or J – not a “halo”.
This could have happened naturally or been placed like an archway by ancient man.
Again, I believe that Moses receive the 10 commandments, I just don’t see anything Miraculous in this video. I‘d like to see what’s found inside the cave though. That would be interesting :)
Report Post »BigFoot
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:25pm“It doesn’t even totally encompass it – its more of an upsidedown U or J – not a “halo”.”
You mean like a J Lo? I thought she was Puerto Rican, not Jewish.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:53pmMaybe the burning bush was just a coleman camp stove, brought by a well meaning time traveling elf from occupy wall street, who was worried about global warming.
Report Post »I am sure Moses didn’t mistake a cave with a bush. they are pretty distinctly different things.
schroeder123
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:13pmI had a tree that dripped sap once. Looks like Jesus. Then everyone came to see it. Then it went away.
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:45pmEveryone came to see tree-sap Rorshach blotches that looked like Jesus. Imagine that? Like a cow with a blotchy Jesus spot or a piece of toast with a Jesus shaped toast splotch this falls into the same category of hope.
I am sure that people want to see Jesus which I think is wonderful in and of itself that 2000-years after death and even His likeness as a blotch still draws people to Him. Imagine what a stir the real returning Jesus would do amongst those who love Him. What a day that will be…
Love you Jesus…come soon ;-)
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:12pmSERENA HALT, spamming is not polite. go away.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:07pmThen the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
I believe we are STILL living in “Biblical times”. And I think we will see more discoveries and links to the acts of God such as this here at the Blaze as things escalate in the Middle East and around the world. The nation of Israel is the clock by which all prophecy runs. Watch and pray.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:06pmIncredible story. I just hope the Palestinians, in their quest for taking over Israel, don’t destroy it, like they threaten with everything else. God help them if they do.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:09pmI’m totally convinced that this is the place where he saw God. Either here or in his toast.
Report Post »stool
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:05pmIf you look to the right of the cave, the lower 2/3 of the screen, under the 2 on the top of the picture, you can see a rock statue like man in arab garb pointing to the cave.
Report Post »stool
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:13pmActually now that I look at it, it looks like a cave shaped shadow cast by some rock formation and the glow around it is probably when the sun is in the perfect position to cast that shadow.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:53pmI think you are right. It is not uncommon to see a side of a mountain light up when the sun is in a certain position.
Report Post »the wireworker
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:19pm@ whitefang
have you seen horsetail falls in yosemite? when the sunlight hits it just right it lights up like fire…
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:05pmI question the position of the mountain/sun at the time of Moses. Tectonic movement, the increase/decrease in mountain height due to crust movements, the decrease in height due to erosion, and other factors. It is an interesting story, but what guarantee is there that the cave was in the exact same spot to give the exact same effect when Moses was in the area. I’m skeptical. You can find Waldo in a Picasso if you look hard enough.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:02pmIt is an interesting story. There are several interesting things going on in the middle east. Biblical things. Archaeology is finding things that are not supposed to be there according to modern day scholars. Yet “even the very rocks are crying out”.
Report Post »DisarmoniaMundi
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:01pmWow, don’t jump to conclusions guys. BHO probably had to do his business in there back during one of his ME vacations. I’m amazed it went unreported.
MSNBC has made the convincing argument that BHO craps gold, and MSNBC is very trustworthy.
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Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:54pmThis is less important… than Moses actually be named Mes-es… being a Prince of the Pharaoh Mes-es (who overthrew the Hyksos conquerers), and named after him… explaining that he spoke Egyptian, and needed an Interpreter to speak to the He-b-w-s (servants).
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:45pmMoses was raised by his own mother in his own home until he was weaned, which could have been up to five years old back then. I expect he learned to speak Hebrew in that time.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 10:51pmIt would seem so, but that’s not why he used Aaron to interpret (Speak for him) Exodus 4:10 he tells God he is not eloquent but, “Slow of speech” (which many believe means he stuttered sometimes.) For proof that he could speak “to” the Hebrews look at Exodus 2:13 (No interpreter there.) “He said to him that did the wrong,…” And when the Hebrew answered it doesn’t mention an interpreter just tells what he told Moses, and that Moses said , “Surely this thing is known.”
Report Post »On a different not, May Everyone have a blessed Christmas, And Happy Birthday Jesus, to anyone of the Jewish belief, Happy, Blessed, [AND] SAFE HANNAKUH!
rotcarpenter
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:51pmRon Paul must have been there recently. He is, after all, perfection.
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:50pmVery interesting. Even though I believe all religion (Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, etc.) is man-made I do believe our ancestors were influenced by a wide range of ides, customs, traditions, different things they saw in their environment, and so on. This can influence how we see the story of Exodus.
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:55pmSo miracles that have been reported have no credibility with you. So I assume that if a cancer treatment is reported to you and you had need you would not bother to go and see?
I’ll bet you had a hard time reading text books and believing anything unless you can verify your reading material in a 100% fashion. I read a guy named Washington crossed the Delware river but because you were not there to see it for you it is only here-say.
So do you believe anything you read?
Report Post »MonkeyBeagle
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:50pmPretty interesting stuff. Good job blaze!
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:48pmVery cool! Perfect time of the year for a sighting like this!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:18amJust in time for Channukah.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:20pmI don’t think the video was photo“chopped”. I watched the newscast.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 10:12pmre : a little photo shop
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Hey, remember what a stir A LOT OF PHOTO SHOP made a few years ago, when AP did ALL THOSE PICTURES OF ISRAEL BOMBING LEBANON? WHEN THEY PROVED THE SMOKE & CROWDS WERE PHOTO SHOPPED, AND THE SAME GUY & LITTLE GIRL WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE? Well, guess what? This time the Photos support Israel’s History in their land, does it bother you?