In an earlier article we described the akiti festival at ancient Ur, a festival that involved ritual circumambulation of the fields. This practice dates to at least 2500 BC. We speculated that it may have originated even earlier than that, based on the spiral wall around the summit of Mount Hermon.Continue Reading
To reach the summit of Mount Hermon in ancient times, one had approach the peak by circling it counterclockwise. Is there a link between rites on Hermon and religious rituals elsewhere?
One of the great puzzles of Bible prophecy is the identity of Mystery Babylon, the Great Harlot of Revelation 17.Continue Reading
DAVID WAS not perfect, but he recognized his failures. More importantly, he acknowledged that God was the source of his salvation—his yeshua.Continue Reading
Jesus sent seventy disciples ahead of him into Galilee, a declaration of victory over the gods of the nations—the seventy “sons of El” who met on the summit of the Canaanite Olympus, Mount Hermon.Continue Reading
The se’irim, literally “hairy ones,” were goat-like beings who the Israelites began to worship during their wanderings in the desert. The section of the Law in in Leviticus 17, requiring all sacrifices be brought to the tent of meeting, was specifically to stop the worship of these goat-demons.Continue Reading