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                    Abraham

                    (IBRU.UM)

                    First to pay 

                           Tithe

       Genesis 14:18 "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.  19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:  20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.   and he gave him tithes of all.'

    (Second) Why was the most high God entitled to these tithes? (Answer 1)  He is the "possessor of heaven and earth".   (Answer 2) He has just "delivered thine enemies into thy hand."  (Both answers derived from the text, Gen. 14:19,20)

     (Third) Who had the authority to make these two claims?  (Answer, also from text, Gen. 14:18) "Melchizedek king of Salem -- the priest of the most high God."

    (Fourth) Who benefitted form Abram's tithe (used it, spent it)?  (Assumed Answer) "Melchizedek king of Salem -- the priest of the most high God."

     Most would admit that this is the principle behind titheing and remains the principle throughout the entire Bible.   One pays tithe because God owns everthing, and will bless those who pay it to His chosen representative(s) with prosperity and success in whatever they choose to do. 

     HOWEVER: This is a devious divine transactionof a type I shall be critical of on these pages.     

THE REST OF THE STORY

PART A

      Any text quoted out of context must be considered to be suspicious, because it most likely is being used to aid an agenda that was not originally intended in the Bible.   So the first thing we need to do is read the remainder of Genesis 14.

     Genesis 14:21 "And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods thyself.  22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,  23 That I will not take from a thread even unto a shoelatchet, and that I will not take anything  that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:  24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion."

DO THE MATH!

       It's a nice little speech that Abram made to the King of Sodom, but it has disastrous consequences for the tithing principle.   We are supposed to pay TITHE on our increase, not our losses.   Abram's potential "increase" is the booty (clothing, food, potential slaves).   His losses were lost time, provisions for his servants, and the lives of anyone who got killed in this military expedition.   He has, by this speech, insured that he had absolutely no "increase" or "profit" ---- not even, as he stated "a thread even unto a shoelatchet,"

10% of nothing = nothing

how much "tithe" did Abram pay 

Melchizedek?   Nothing!

       If anything at all occurred here of a financial nature other than that between the King of Sodom and Abram's non-Hebrew confederates, it was a gesture, and most likely only an insertion by later  Jewish priests and scribes, who indeed could benefit from such a precedent!

Ningishzidda builds stone observatories to show otherwise

Insurrections, wars, and invasions destabilize Enlilite lands

The mystery emissary appears to Enlil, foretells a calamity

Instructs Enlil to select a Worthy Man to lead survival

Enlil chooses Ibruum, scion of priestly royal family

Armies raised by Nabu attempt to seize the spaceport

Overruling Enki, the gods resort to Weapons of Terror

Ninurta and Nergal obliterate the spaceport and sinning cities

The drifting nuclear cloud brings death to all in Sumer.

Abram Rescues Lot 

  Genesis 14:1 "And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar (Sumer), Arioch king of El-lasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of nations;  2  That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar."

      3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.  4  Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.  5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Asteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.'

      7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, wshich is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar."

      8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;  9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of El-lasar;  four kings with five."

     10 "And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.  11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.  12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed."

     13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.  14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.   15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.  16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people."

      "The rulers of your region all bounds have exceeded:  Enki to Enlil bitterly said.   Of all the troubles Marduk is the fountainhead! Enlil to Enki retorted.  Still the dream-vision to himself keeping, Enlil to Tirhu his attention turned."  Tirhu was the oracle priest in Nippur, Ur, and Harran (the biblical Terah, father of Abraham)

     "Upon Ibru-Um, the eldest son of Tirhu, Enlil cast the choosing gaze.  A princely offspring, valiant and with priestly secrets acquainted Ibruum was;  To protect the sacred places, the chariots' ascents and descents enable, Enlil Ibruum to go commanded.  No sooner did Ibruum from Harran depart than in that city Marduk arrived;   The defilements he too had observed, as birth pangs of a New Order he them deemed."

      "From Harran, on the threshold of Sumer, his final thrust he plannec,  From Harran, at the edge of Ishkur's domains situated, the raising of armies he directed,   When twenty-and-four Earth years of his sojourn in Harran had passed,  Marduk to the other gods, of whomever descended, tearfully an appeal made;   Confessing his transgressions but insisting on his lordship -- Maeduk insisted that his former temple Esagil be declared his everlasting abode, and that a king of Babylon be installed.

      It was during the twenty-four years that Marduk was living and scheming in Harran that Abram's successful repelling of the four kings of Mesopotamia occurred.   A part of Enlil's instructions to protect the spaceport in the Sinai wilderness.  Instructions that the later biblical authors appeared to be totally ignorant of.  But by Genesis chapter 18 and 19, two "angels" and God visit Abram with plans to destroy Sodom and the other cities of the plain.

Angels Visit Abraham and Lot

    Genesis 18:1 "And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,  3  And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:  4  Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore are ye come to your servant.  And they said, So do, as thou hast said."

      Abraham and Sarah cooked a light lunch for the three visitors, and two of them afterwards traveled on to Sodom to warn Lot, now living back in Sodom after being rescued from the armies of Mesopotamia.  One of the three, that Abraham calls "Lord" stays with Abraham a few more minutes while Abraham attempts to dissuade the obviously divine visitors from destroying Sodom and the cities of the plain with "fire and brimstone" from heaven.    Chapter 19 leads us to believe that Sodom was destroyed because homosexuals lived there, but the Mesopotamian records give an entirely different and unrelated reason.  The cities were now considered to be part of Marduk's push to take over this area as well as Egypt and Edin and become the sole recognized ruler and "God" of the Age of Aries on this earth.

 

Genesis 19      1 "And there came two angels to Sodom at         even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom:  and Lot seeing them rose           up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face                           toward the ground;  4 But before they lay down, the men of the         city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round,               both old and young, all the people from every quarter:   5 And                  they called upon Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men            which came in to thee this night?   bring them out to us,                that we may know them.   And Lot went out at the door unto them,        and shut the door after him.  7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do            not so wickedly.  ---10 But the men (angels) put forth their hand,       and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.  11                   And they smote the men that were at the door of the house wth                        blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves         to find the door."       15 "And when the                 morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise,                     take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here;                 lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16  And while            he lingered, the men (angels) laid hold on his hand, and upon             the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters;       the Lord being merciful unto him;  and they brought him forth,              and set him without the city.    24        "Then the Lord rained upon                                                Sodom and     upon Gomorrah brimstone                                                      and fire from the Lord out of heaven;                                                                          25 And he overthrew those cities,                                                                      and all the plain, and all the inhabitants                                                           of the cities, and that which grew upon                                                                   the ground.   26 But his wife looked                                                                  back from behind him, and she                                                                         became a pillar of salt."       27 "And Abraham gat up early                                                    in the morning to the place where he stood                                            before the Lord:  28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, amd beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."

        For the biblical "memory" of these events in the life of Ibru-Um (Abraham) we are dependent on the "memoires" of a man named "Moses" who supposedly led the descendents of Jacob-Israel out of Egypt where they had been enslaved to make bricks for Egypt's treasure cities.  On the way from Egypt to Canaan, a walk that should have taken a month or so but took instead forty years, they stopped at a mountain in the Sinai (or perhaps Saudia Arabia), where Moses received as a vision on the mountain top all of the inspired history of the world up to that time that any of us needs to worry about.   Part of this inspired history is that Lot, Abraham's nephew or brother (take your pick) lived in a cave for a short while with his two virgin daughters, his wife having turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back towards burning Sodom.  The daughters thought that all the men on earth were  dead, and it was their duty to have children and preserve the human race.

       Genesis 19:31 "And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32  Come, let us make our father drink wine (evidently they had enough presence of mind to bring some wine along when they fled Sodom) and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." 

       33 And they made their father drink wine that night (as a descendent of Noah that evidently was not hard to accomplish); and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. (now that's pretty drunk!)

       34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also (not much else to do in that cave); and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve  seed of our father.  35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she latydown, nor when she arose."

        36  Thus were both daughters of Lot with child by their father.  37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day, 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.  (We assume "unto this day" means up to the day that Moses received this vision on Mount Sinai, but now along  have come these critics that say not much of this was written until perhaps 500 years after "Moses" lived and died. And perhaps 1200 years after Lot and his daughters spent perhaps a year in that cave!) 

 

Thousands visit this cave in Jordan, not far from the Dead Sea, in which the tadition is maintained that Lot and his daughters lived.

And at least one well-known artist is best known for his painting of Lot, we presume now sober and awake, posing with his naked daughters.

On a Pakistani Web Site I read: Acharya Kanad (600 BCE) - Founder ofAtomic Theory       Now 600 BC is a long time ago, and it seems shocking to some of us that an idea that was not developed into useful energy production (power plants and powering ships and submarines) and "weapons of terror" (atomic bombs and munitions) until the 1940's, was at least thought about in India in 600 BC.  It should not surprise us that Acharya Kanad was just "remembering" what had happened before in Mesopotamia!

Enlil, Ninurta and Nergal

awaken Weapons of Terror

      The records of events in the Mesopotamian documents of around 2000 BC, the time of Abraham, do not deny the story of Abraham meeting two "angels" and a god at his tent in the plain of Mamre. And they do not deny  that Abraham did go out the next day to look toward Sodom and the plain where the Dead Sea is now, and saw that "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."

      Indeed the Mesopotamian documents supplement the Bible story, and now we know the reason that Abraham recognized one of his three visitors as "Lord" and called him Judge of all the Earth (Gen. 18:25), was that Lord Enlil was the one who made this decision!

     And these documents also make it quite likely that the two who visited Lot in Sodom were Ninurta and Nergal, who were that very night or early next morning scheduled to fly over these cities and drop atomic bombs on each of them.   They would have been dressed in their flight suits. "

     " They would have stood out like visitors from Mars to the ordinary street crowd in that ancient city.   Which gives them a very different reason for wanting to "know them" than homosexual lust.  "Who are these strangely - dressed individuals?   What are they up to?   Do we have any reason to worry?"   The answers to these questions were.  1) These are pilots of an aircraft loaded with 5 atomic bombs.  2) They are about to level this city with incredibly powerful "Weapons of Terror".  And 3) You should worry a lot, because every one of you is about to die -- to be vaporized in a fraction of a second!

       And indeed, in a few hours, that's exactly what happened!

Atomic End of an Age 

Circa 2000 BC

        Page 307 "So did Marduk, confessing and appealing, to the other gods his coming announce.   By his appeal for their submission the Anunnaki gods were disturbed and alarmed.   To a great assembly, counsel to take, Enlil them all summoned.   All the Anunnaki leaders in Nibru-ki gathered; Enki and Marduk's brothers also came.   About the happenings all of them were agitated, opposed to Marduk and Nabu they all were.  In the council of the great gods, accusations were rampant, recriminations filled the chamber."

      "What is coming no one can prevent; let us Marduk's supremacy accept!   Enki alone counseled."

     " If the time of the Ram is coming, let us Marduk of the Bond Heaven-Earth deprive!   Enlil in anger proposed.   To obliterate the Place of the Celestial Chariots all except  Enki agreed;  To use therefore the Weapons of Terror Nergal suggested; only Enki was opposed:   Of the decision, Earth to Anu the words pronounced; Anu to Earth the words repeated.  What was destined to be, by your decision to undo will fail!   So did Enki say as he departed.   The evil thing to carry out Ninurta and Nergal were selected."

      Page 308 "Those seven Weapons of Terror, in a mountain they abide!  to them Enlil said.  In a cavity inside the earth they dwell, with the terror to clad them is required!  Then the secret of how the weapons from their deep sleep awaken,  Enlil to them did reveal.   Before the two sons, one of Enlil, one of Enki, to the hiding place departed,  Enlil to them words of forewarning said:  Ere the weapons are used, by the Anunnaki must  the chariots' place be vacated;  The cities must be spared, the people must not perish!"

       "In his skyship Nergal to the hiding place soared,  Ninurta by his father was delayed;    A word to his son alone Enlil wished to say, a secret to him alone reveal:   About the prophecy of Galzu and the choosing of Ibruum to Ninurta he told.   Hot-headed is Nergal, make sure that the cities are spared, that Ibruum is forewarned!  to Ninurta Enlil said."

       "When Ninurta at the weapons' place arrived, Nergal from the cavity had already brought them out,    As their ME's from the long slumber he awakened, to each one of the seven Nergal a taskname gave:

       Ô   The One Without Rival the first weapon he called,

       Ô   the Blazing Flame he named the second,

       Ô   The One Who with Terror Crumbles he called the third,

       Ô   Mountain Melter the fourth he called,

       Ô   Wind That the Rim of the World Seeks he named the fifth,

       Ô   the One Who Above and Below No One Spares was the sixth,

       Ô    The seventh with monstrous venom was filled, Vaporizer of

              Living Things he called it.

        "With Anu's blessing were the seven to Nergal and Ninurta given, therewith to destruction wreak.   When Ninurta at the place of the Weapons of Terror arrived, to destroy and annihilate was Nergal ready."

      "I shall kill the son, I will annihilate the father!   Nergal with vengeance was shouting.   The lands they covet will vanish. the sinning cities I will upheaval!  So did Nergal enraged announce.   Valiant Nergal, will you the righteous with the unrighteous destroy?   So did Ninurta his comrade ask."

       "The instructions of Enlil are clear!   To the selected targets the way I will lead, you behind me will follow!   The decision of the Anunnaki to me is known!   Nergal to Ninurta said.   For seven days and seven nights the signal from Enlil the two awaited."

       "As was his intention, when his waiting was completed, Marduk to Babili returned,  In the presence of his followers, with weapons armed, his supremacy declared;   A thousand and seven hundred and thirty six was the count of Earth years then.   On that day, on that fateful day, Enlil to Ninurta the signal sent;  To Mount Mashu Ninurta departed, behind him Nergal followed.   The Mount and the plain, in the heart of the Fourth Region, Ninurta from the skies surveyed."

      "With a squeezing in his heart, to Nergal a sign he gave: Keep off!  To him he signaled.   Then the first terror weapon from the skies Ninurta let loose."

     "The top of Mount Mashu with a flash it sliced off, the mount's innards in an instant it had melted.   Above the place of the Celestial Chariots the second weapon he unleased,   With the brilliance of seven suns the plain's rocks into a gushing wound were made."

      "The Earth shook and crumbled, the heavens after the brilliance were darkened.   With burnt and crushed stones was the plain of the chariots covered,  Of the forests that the plain had surrounded, only tree stems were left standing."

       "It is done!  Ninurta from the skyship, his Black Divine Bird, words shouted.  The control that Marduk and Nabu so coveted, of it they are forever deprived!"

      "Then to emulate Ninurta Nergal desired, to be Erra the Annihilator his heart him urged;  Following the King's Highway, to the verdent valley of the five cities he flew.  In the verdent valley where Nabu the people were converting, Nergal as a caged bird to squash him planned."

      "Over the five cities, one after the other, Erra upon each from the skies a terror weapon sent,   The five cities of the valley he finished off, to desolation they were overturned.   With fire and brimstones were they upheaveled, all that lived there to vapor was turned..  By the awesome weapons were mountains toppled, where the sea waters were barred the bolt broke open,   Down into the valley the sea's waters poured,  by the waters was the valley flooded;   When upon the cities' ashes the waters poured, steam to the heavens was rising."

      "It is done!  Erra in his skyship shouted.  In Nergal's heart there was no more vengeance.   Surveying their evil handiwork, the two heroes by what they saw were puzzled.   By a darkening of the skies were the brilliances followed, then a storm to blow began.  Swirling within a dark cloud, gloom from the skies an Evil Wind carried,  As the day wore on, the Sun on the horizon with darkness it obliterated,  At nighttime a dreaded brilliance skirted its edges, the Moon at its rising it made dissapear."

       "When dawn the next morning came, from the west, from the Upper Sea, a stormwind began blowing,   The dark-brown cloud eastward it directed, toward the settled lands did the cloud spread;  Wherever it reached, death to all that lives mercilessly it delivered;   From the Valley of No Pity, by the brilliances spawned, toward Shumer the death was carried."

       "To Enlil and Enki Ninurta and Nergel the alarm sounded:  Unstoppable the Evil Wind death to all delivers!  The alarm Enlil and Enki to the gods of Shumer transmitted;   Escape!  Escape!  to them they all cried out.   Let the people disperse, let the people hide!"

       "From their cities the gods did flee, like frightened birds from their nests escaping they were.  The people of the lands by the Evil Storm's hand were clutched; futile was the running.   Stealthy was the death, like a ghost the fields and cities it attacked;  The highest walls, the thickest walls, like floodwaters it passed,  No door could shut it out, no bolt could turn it back.   Those who behind locked doors hid inside their houses like flies were felled,   Those who into the streets fled, in the streets were their corpses piled up."

      "Cough and phlegm the chests filled, the mouths with spittle and foam filled up;  As the Evil Wind the people unseen engulfed, their mouths were drenched with blood.  Slowly over the lands the Evil Wind blew, from west to east over plains and mountains it traveled;  Everything that lived, behind it was dead and dying, people and cattle, all alike perished.  The waters were poisoned, in the fields all vegetation withered.  From Eridu in the south to Sipper in the north did the Evil Wind the land overwhelm;   Babili (Babylon) where Marduk supremacy declared, by the Evil Wind was spared."